I went to the emergency room because I was having a terrible panic attack. All my blood work came back great except I was positive for pregnancy. Two days later I went to a clinic and paid $30 to have another blood test ran and it came back negative. I had a period at the beginning of the month (around Jan 5) and went to the ER last Saturday night. No urine tests are coming up positive. If anyone has any clue of what may be going on please tell me!
You also are confusing the 2 terms of quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative gives you a number...the amount of hcg in your blood and qualitative simply gives you a positive or a negative.
I use an HPT from the hospital I work at and I used 2 of them, one in the am and one in the PM and I got positives on both of them and the qualitative said neg and the quantitative said 10 so I have proof that the hpt was more sensitive.............My 10 dpo was hcg of 10 and my 14 dpo was an hcg of 138.3 so I am definately pregnant and the beta hcg was a false negative............
I disagree in that a blood test can detect any level of HCG and if it's quantitative can give you a number. Qualitative are usually only positive >20. So with 10, the HPT would be negative and the blood test would be positive.
My ob/gyn told me that the qualitative blood tests only show a + with an hcg level of about 25, so it is true that most hpt's are more sensitive (which is what she told me).