I have seen a lot of people highly recommending Suoerdrugs own brand tests.
However I've read a lot of negative reviews too talking about false positives being very common with them, including their digital one.
My personal experience is I've had 3 BFPs all with Superdrug tests including the digital but am now understanding I am not pregnant, and feel really let down and upset.
I understand for many they'll use these and be pregnant but it seems a majority are actually getting their hopes up for nothing.
Im interested in hearing others experiences with these tests.
Xxx
Ignore the majority of what you read about the false positives. The only way to get them is by hcg being present in your urine which is usually only with pregnancy. There are a few other reasons like medication, blood in the urine, cancer etc.
What is important to remember with these tests is that they are 10miu. This means they can pick up hcg before implantation has completed sometimes, certainly before af is due. Now, remember that 50% of all fertilised eggs will fail to be viable pregnancies. So, 50% of women getting early positives on these tests will end up getting negatives later on and bleeding on or around the af due date. So, lots of these women think they just got af and were never pregnant and blame a test for giving a false positive. The only reason test strip will change colour is in the presence of hcg.
So, if you have hcg, the test strip with have colour and you are either pregnant at that time or it's (very very rarely) due to another medical reason.
If you've had colour in your tests, even faint, you were pregnant, but with 50/50 odds, it's a high risk and if you then get negatives and bleeding, you most likely suffered a chemical pregnancy. It happened to me last month. I've done loads of these tests and when they went negative, there was not even a hint of a faint line at all.
Now, evap lines are a different matter. I don't truly believe they happen that much but I do think it's possible to get water lines, where the test strip is shadowy due to being wet..but will look grey. Fir an evap, the test has to be dry.
I do see a few tests that people call positive but have suffered dye run and I think any dye run test should be disregarded.
Bottom line, if you have colour, you have hcg and the test has worked as that's all it is designed to do...pick up hcg. So you're either pregnant or need to get checked over but, if you get coloured lines and then negatives, it's unlikely an underlying issue as if it were, the hcg would remain.
I like testing early as even though I know there's a 50% chance I'll lose it if I catch, It comforts me to know I can conceive. If it's too hard to know you've had a chemical, probably best not to test until after a missed period.
It's not even really about what I believe...it's just fairly basic chemistry which doesn't lie.
Fx you get a sticky bean soon xx
