REET! The lightness or darkness of the line has sweet f*** all to do with the amount of HCG in your body, it's just a measure of how much of the chemical is on the stick - if there's not that much chemical on the stick then your gonna get a faint line no matter what. If there's a lot of chemical, then more HCG will react to it. That's why there's the saying - A LINE IS A LINE IS A LINE. Mine stayed faint til I stopped testing about 18 DPO, and my HCG was 2300. Someone in my belly buddies got a super faint line at 7 weeks and her HCG was over 30000.
So, freaking out is fine. Go ahead with that, but get a bunch of dvd's (happy ones! or one's with edward/jacob) and icecream. Your allowed to be scared. It's scary. So take some time to be scared, and then maybe later on take some time to not be scared
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