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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 5:37pm \| IP Logged

NHS report on pregnancy tests, the good ones and the not so good ones. Also tells you the sensitivity of different tests:

http://www.pasa.nhs.uk/pasa/Doc.aspx?Path=%5BMN%5D%5BSP%5D/N HSprocurement/CEP/Biochemistry/Report%2006051.pdf

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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 8:48pm \| IP Logged

Just read through that, it was really interesting. I really liked the clearblue digital test, but it is so expensive.

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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 9:12pm \| IP Logged

Have to agree that the Superdrug test is good.

After a false negatitve test done at my local hospital, i.e. I was pregrant and some reason it did not show positive at the hospital (6 weeks preg at the time). Unconvinced & worried as I was taking mood stablizers at the time, I purchased a test from Supedrug which I did on a cold Saturday morning in 2004 which showed positive.

I promptly contacted the emergency doctor's and on the Monday I took another sample to the doctors who retested and confirmed the pregnancy.

The rest is a very long story, but I am now a much happier person & mummy to my 35 month old daughter. (Currently fast asleep on my knee. The Smiles as she calls them stop her being scared of the dark woods from noddy.)

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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 9:19pm \| IP Logged

I had the asda one left over from my last pregnancy in the house when I decided to test this time. I mucked up the test and only managed to get a tiny drop of wee onto the tip. I thought I'd run it under the tap to see how quickly the test showed a negative anyway, and to my shock it came up positive right away. My friend who came round later that night joked that could be a sign of twins; a strong positive after a diluted sample, and lo and behold she was right!

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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 9:32pm \| IP Logged

Intresting reading. Good to know that some of the cheaper ones are just as reliable, if not more so.

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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 9:47pm \| IP Logged

I found it interesting that Predictor is being revamped - cos I had a mare with one of those!

When we were ttc our 1st, I came home from work feeling really crap and had chucked up at work (nice) so wanted to do a test to rule it out as I was convinced that there was no way I was pg. DH bought the only test in the chemist and it was predictor. Predictor has 3 windows and they ALL go pink. The 1st one is suposed to stay pink, the 2nd or 3rd clear and the other one is suposed to get a pink dot for a BFP. Well they all went pink, stayed pink - but the indicator that said the test worked was showing ok.... the BFP window had this stupid 2 layer paper thing in and you could see that 1 layer was white, and 1 had the tiniest pink bit on. I was soooo cross cos I had no idea what it meant so I called the helpline - and they were shut! RUBBISH!

So I got a clearblue digital test as I thought that would be easy, then when it said pregnant, I was convinced I'd got one where the "not" didn't work LOLLOL

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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 9:59pm \| IP Logged

I cant remember what I used - I just grabbed one of the shelf and weed on it - convinced it would say BFN so I could go and get some antibiotics for masitis again - however I didnt have mastitis - i was pregnant! What a shock!

Thats really interesting though Sam - I'll keep that for next time as I've heard so many horror stories about false readings.

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