Positive Pregnancy test followed by negative results, please help.

[stillthink]

I know this is veryyyy long but I'm desperate for help, please, please, please, give me advice.
Ok so I have this really weird question that hopefully someone can help me with and I would so appriecate it.  Ok so my last period was on March 27, 2009.  So I'm assuming I've ovulated on April 10th or 11th.  Weird things started haapening to me like nipple tenderness, loss of appieite and headaches that nothing would help with.  So when I got home that night which was on Wed 15th of April and deciced to take a hpt.  I held my pee in for sooo long I almost peed tring to get the wrapper open. lol  but i managed to make it, took the test and the came out positive.  I couldn't believe my eyes.  The line was very faint but it was there.  I'm was a week and a half from when I shoud be getting my period.  I rushed to the store and bought 2 more both now have came out negative.  Even after usings the first mornings urine.  What the heck is going on.  I've called pregnancy hotline and even the 1-800 numbers on the back of the boxes that I tested with.  BTW all the test where from the same brand.  I know it was not an evap line because I watched it start to change even before the control line did.  The hotline people said a positive test is a positive test and that false positives do not occur.  They said that I may have gotta a positive result because I had held my urine for so long that it showed just enough levels to test pos.  But why would the 2 others both be neg.  OMG dont know what to do.  And it is imperative that I know.  I'm on pills that would be a horrible idea to continue taking if a an pregnant.  I can't go to the docs because my aunt works there and she'll tell everyone!!!!  So Stuck has anyone ever had a simliar situation???   PLease I'll love ya forever if you could help me out

[Juliaschill]

I would say, just don't take the pills untill you know for sure, but you realy should see a doctor,prenatal care is very important. Maybe try to test if a few days.best of luck to you.

[waitingwithhope]

A few things are possible- you could have been pregnant and then are miscarrying (I have had that happen- positive results followed by negative results and then a very late period) or, more likely, you are pregnant and it only picked it up with one test.  Sometimes early pregnancy is like that. I probably would not take any more pills either until you know one way or another and I would go and get a blood test- blood tests are far more accurate and will give you an idea if your levels are doubling like they are supposed to (get another blood test two days after the first). If you don't want to go to your regular doc, there are clinics you can go to and they will be confidential. Good luck!

[Mindalindee]

Okay so I would go with the other two posts better be safe then sorry. Act as though you are pregnant- no smoking, drinking ect. until you know for sure. I have had that happen twice and both times I was pregnant, but take another one after your period is due, then go to the doctor.  

[AnnieBrooke]

It is possible to get a positive on a home test and a negative after that on a home test, as some tests are more sensitive than others and there are times when the urine is more concentrated and times when it is less concentrated.  I have also heard that some medications or hormones that a person can take can in fact give a positive on a home test, but that might just be Internet lore.  (I think it is true that pregnancy can give a positive on an ovulation test kit, and maybe that causes confusion about other things maybe giving positives on home pregnancy tests.)

If it were me in this position, I first would look up the meds I am taking and see if there is any possibility they can affect a pregnancy test.  If they don't (or there is no obvious answer) I would take one of those early / sensitive home tests about 14 days after the unprotected sex.  

It is not common to get a positive on a home test only 5 days after ovulation, and so there's some comfort in that -- i.e., it could mean there is a mistake somehow.  But unfortunately there is probably always a case out there where it did work that early, and so nothing can be known for sure until you take a test around the point where your period is due, which I hope confirms the negative tests that followed the positive one.

Incidentally, AndiJ once mentioned that one of the early response tests (EPT, I think) is noted for having false positives.  You might just google "false positive on pregnancy test" and see if the brand that gave the positive is on anyone's list.

[stillthink]

Thanks for the info.  I think she did test somewhere around 5 or 6 days after she ovulated so that may be why she did get a positive.  OMG I hope that would be the case.  In fact hearing that makes me feel alot better.  We did another test today and got another negative so that def could have been what happened with the first test.  She's been taking Lexapro for her aniexty and depression.  I don't know how that prescription would impact the baby if she were to be pregnant, but it's an anti-depressant so I'm assuming it would be harmful to the baby.  I've advised her to STOP taking the meds just in case.  I just hope it doesn't hurt her mental health, and then it turns out she never was pregnant.  Well guess we will see later this week how it turns out.  Thanks so much for the help everyone.  I really appreciate it

[AnnieBrooke]

I hope I didn't mislead you.  Pregnancy can give a positive on an ovulation test, but ovulation does not give a positive on a pregnancy test.  But if all the tests but that first one are negative and it is getting close to her period, that is all good news.  Of course, the best would be to test only when her period is due, or to get a blood test, but if she can't wait and can't go for a blood test, the best you can do is use an early-results test, and cross your fingers.

[peekawho]

No one should ever stop taking antidepressants cold turkey.  If she's newly pregnant,  it won't hurt her to take them for a few more days.  Certain antidepressants, if you stop them cold turkey, you can have seizures.  

A properly performed sensitive pregnancy test, performed on a first morning urine should give a positive when her level of HCG has built up enough to trigger the test.  There are certain medications that can also cause a false positive.

It would seem illogical that a test would be positive only 5 days past ovulation, and then negative after that.  To me, a mistake, a defective test, or some other fluke would be more likely.