SELFCheck Pregnancy Blood Test

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Many of the early symptoms of pregnancy are due to the surge in hCG, and confusingly, they’re very similar to ones you might have right before your period.

Open the lancet and prick the lateral side of the patient’s fingertip to obtain a drop of blood (20μL). You might even be about to have a medical procedure or start a new medication that could be complicated by pregnancy. Home use tests – pregnancy External Link , Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device and Evaluation, US Food and Drug Administration.

You can take the test anywhere and at any time of the day or night as you don’t need to wait for a first morning urine. Whether using a home pregnancy test that uses urine or a blood pregnancy test from your doctor, the results will be based on measurements of this hormone in your urine or blood. But just like with an at-home urine pregnancy test, there’s still a chance you can end up with an inaccurate result, like one that says you’re not pregnant when you really are (a false negative) or one that finds you’re pregnant when you aren’t ( a false positive).

Your doctor can use a more sensitive test along with a pelvic exam to tell for sure if you're pregnant.HCG is a hormone secreted in pregnancy and detectable beginning a week to two weeks (or more) after conception, depending on the test. Our test can pick up traces of hCG, allowing you to confirm pregnancy as early as possible, even before a missed period. It can happen because it's very early in your pregnancy and your pregnancy hormone level is low, or because some tests have less bold lines than others.

The best advice is that if you see a very faint line (or a 'white' line) then the hCG level must be very low and you will need to check again around a week later to confirm a positive result - if you are pregnant, the levels of hCG by then should be quite high and give an obvious positive result! As most of these symptoms aren’t unique to pregnancy, a Pregnancy Blood Test can help you find out if they’re down to pregnancy or to rule this out as the cause. A blood test can detect hCG about 11 days after conception and about 12-14 days after conception by a urine test ( americanpregnancy.An 'evaporation line' occurs when some pregnancy tests are not used exactly as written in the instructions and are sometimes seen as a grey or white streak where a positive result should appear.