You’ve taken a home pregnancy test, and the result is positive. But is there any chance that it could be wrong?
Home pregnancy tests are quite dependable – actually, a large portion of them can identify a pregnancy with 97 percent precision as right on time as the day after you miss your menstrual period. The tests work by showing regardless of whether there’s a pregnancy hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in your pee. On the off chance that you have a quantifiable level of hCG, congrats! You’re pregnant – with these couple of, uncommon special cases.
Synthetic pregnancy
The most widely recognized clarification for a “false positive” is that you truly were pregnant when you stepped through the exam. “A few ladies can get a positive pregnancy test and afterward three days after their period is expected, they have an extremely substantial period,” says Lanalee Araba Sam, M.D., an ob-gyn in Fort Lauderdale. “Truly what they’ve had is an early unnatural birth cycle called a synthetic pregnancy, and many individuals call that a false positive. They don’t remember it as a positive pregnancy test that at last outcomes in premature delivery.” Dr. Sam clarifies that upwards of 25 to 40 percent of pregnancies may end as an early regularly undetected unnatural birth cycle. A few ladies don’t know they’re pregnant in any case.
When you get your positive pregnancy test result, call your specialist and make an arrangement. It might be numerous weeks away, and it can be distressing to sit tight for affirmation that everything’s alright with your pregnancy. However, Dr. Sam clarifies, a ultrasound can’t enable your specialist to see the gestational sac until around a month and a half, and can’t distinguish a baby with a pulse until around 6 or 7 weeks. When you see that pulse, your possibility of premature delivery plunges to under 5 percent.
Meanwhile, pay special mind to substantial draining or extraordinary cramping, and summon your specialist right in the event that you encounter both of them.
Ongoing unsuccessful labor
On the off chance that you’ve had an unsuccessful labor, hCG can remain in your circulation system for half a month a while later, or until the point that your period returns, says Dr. Sam.
Pregnancy test blunders
Check your pregnancy test unit to ensure it hasn’t terminated, and take after the directions precisely. Committing an error can influence the dependability of the test outcomes.
Prescriptions
As a component of fruitlessness medications, a few ladies get hCG infusions to make them ovulate. In case you’re one of them, your specialist will exhort you on the most proficient method to precisely test for pregnancy.
Different prescriptions, for example, methadone, could likewise meddle with pregnancy test exactness, says Sean Daneshmand, M.D., an ob-gyn situated in San Diego and author of the not-for-profit association Miracle Babies.
Uncommon tumors
In a few occurrences, tumors in the body can create hCG. This is the situation for certain ovarian germ cell tumors and gestational trophoblastic infection, an uncommon condition in which the cells that typically shape the placenta create tumors rather, says Dr. Daneshmand.
The primary concern is this: If you had a positive pregnancy test, it’s 97 percent sure that you’re pregnant.