Is it possible to have a false positive?

Mother's Health
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Has anyone ever had positive home and blood test for pregnancy and you actually not be pregnant at all?

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Could be a chemical or ectopic pregnancy ?

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One of my old friends had a blighted ovum. Basically your body thinks the egg has been fertilized, and starts to prepare for a pregnancy.

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I did at the hospital about a year ago. I had been through menopause two years before. Shocked me to death, I was not pregnant at all.

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Blood is usually accurate as in 100 percent. The only way to not be pregnant as mentioned above a chemical pregnancy, recent miscarriage, recent birth, or some other extenuating circumstance other than those as far as I know, No.

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Yes. I thought I was miscarrying and went to the hospital but they said I was never pregnant :cry: not only was it disappointing but it was embarrassing as well to be told at the hospital, nope you just started your period :woman_facepalming:t3:

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I have had 5 kids and my doctor has always said there in no such thing as a false positive but there is such thing as a false negative I used several doctor and they all have said the same thing

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chemical…ive had one

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Yep had a positive in December ended up not being pregnant but my period was 13 days late. It was either chemical or evaporation line

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You can test positive and then miscarry due to a chemical pregnancy or blighted ovum. Which are basically fertilized pregnancies that never develop into an embryo. But if youre healthy and not having symptoms of a miscarriage, youre def preggo.

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A home test can be hard to read. But if you got a positive blood test youre def pregnant.

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Time to have a physical and full work up. That said I managed to have multiple false negatives on home tests.

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As previously stated, only a chemical pregnancy/blighted ovum or menopause causes false positive blood tests. A QUANTITATIVE (not the usual qualitative) blood test and ultrasound can give a more definite answer as to what exactly is going on.

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False positives rarely happen because there has to be a hormone detected to show up positive.

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There can be reasons for false positives