Do you get a missed period with negative test? Absolutely this is the bad news particularly if you are trying to have a baby or have a plan for pregnancy. But there might be other reasons that you should clearly understand, especially for reasons of late period that can cause some health problems.
Or you can retry your test in next a couple of days, because your body may not produce adequate of pregnancy hormone early which means your less pregnancy hormone is difficult to be detected by your home pregnancy test.
Or you can retry your test in next a couple of days, because your body may not produce adequate of pregnancy hormone early which means your less pregnancy hormone is difficult to be detected by your home pregnancy test.
As well we know that there are two popular methods to find out whether or not you are pregnant; (a) with home pregnancy test and (b) clinic pregnancy test. For the first method, it is relatively more popular than the second method, because home pregnancy test is relatively simple, practical and easy to use. Most of these home tests are believed will be able to give an accurate result, although there are also some cases of the results from home pregnancy tests that cannot give an accurate result.
Tips on using home pregnancy test properly and more optimal!
If you get missed period and you find a negative test result, one thing that you should consider first is you have to make sure that you have used your home pregnancy kit properly. Below are some helpful tips & pieces of information that you should know as well when using a home pregnancy test:
- In general, most of home pregnancy tests are designed to be practical and easy to use, which most of them are dipsticks (you can dip it into a collection cup or you can held it briefly in the urine stream).
- It’s much better to do the test in the morning once you wake up from your bed, because this is an ideal time to get and test your more concentrated urine. In this time, your urine also has higher concentrate of hCG (a kind of pregnancy hormone) so thus you will get more accurate result.
- Don’t forget to read carefully the directions before doing the test, because there may be a little different procedure from one brand to another.
- Read carefully the directions on how to read the test result, because once again it may be different from brand to brand.
- In addition, some possible mistakes that you can do while doing test are; the second line (the crucial sign of positive or negative result) may be evaporated due to you read the result too late, the stick of your test may not be saturated enough with the urine, and a cup that you choose to collect your urine is not clean enough that eventually will influence the test result.
What else you should know about missed period with negative test?
Just wait ... up to more than 2 weeks, if your late period still continues and your test is still negative then try to get relax and avoid stress! In fact, stress is relatively common in many cases of women who are trying to get pregnant.
Stress is bad for your plan to get a baby (stress can complicate pregnancy). And furthermore, it also can contribute for one of the causes of a late period.
And finally, if you are not sure with your home test result, you can choose a clinic pregnancy test if necessary to get more accurate result. Ask and discuss your situations with your doctor to find out what really happens and find more detailed information about ‘missed period - negative test result’.
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