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Re: home pregnancy tests and missing periods

From: William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:30:59 -0500 (CDT)

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At Sat, 29 Jun 2002, dawn wrote: >
>Dear Doctor and friends,
>
>Okay, I went off the pill in the first week of April. Got another
>(unassisted and normal-seeming) period May 15 -- 38 day cycle, a little
>long (normally around 35) but not terribly. Since May 15, nothing -- as
>of today, that makes it 45 days and counting. Pregnant? I thought
>maybe, since we've been trying, and since there's been no sign of my
>period on the way. But I took a pregnancy test yesterday evening (44
>days after the first day of last period) and it came up negative. Here's
>the question: two of my close friends both had situations where the
>HPT's showed negative after their periods were a week late, and their
>blood test a week later showed positive. My internist, when I mentioned
>this, said that she's seen a lot of false negatives w/ HPT. My
>question: is it common for HPT to show false negs? Should I get a blood
>test? If I'm not pregnant, where's my period? The last time I went off
>the pill (last summer) I was completely regular basically right away.
>
>I don't know if I'm grasping at straws here, but I don't know what's up.
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Dawn

Dawn

If concerned, call doc mon am and have blood test done. I find hpt tend to show false pos more than false neg.

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William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG
Chairman, Editorial Advisory Board
Pregnancy and Birth Section
Private Practice
New Orleans, La.

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