Sooo, today I started thinking about home pregnancy tests (HPT). I'm on a great message board for IF called Hannah's Prayer. Lots of the ladies there are POAS addicts (POAS = Pee On A Stick, aka take a HPT). They start POAS as soon as their Embryo Transfer so they can see the HCG shot get out of their system.
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You take HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) to make you ovulate right before Egg Retrieval. So, a HPT would be false positive since this is what HPT test for.
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So once they start getting negatives then they continue to test so that when they get light positives they know it isn't the shot but their embies producing HCG.
The alternative, of course, is to wait patiently for the beta blood test that the doctor does that is much more accurate.
So which am I? A wait for the beta person? or a POASer?
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