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Can holding a HPT in your urine stream cause a false positive?
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Holding it to long in your urine stream. My bad
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No way. It's only poitive if there's a trace of hcg.
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That is what I thought but the paper says 5 Seconds Only! Like that and I have no idea why it says that. Does anyone know why it say that?
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peeonastick.com has a lot of good info!
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I am not sure why is says that either, but I have held it too long MANY, MANY times and NEVER had a false positive.

Did you get a positive??? :-)
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Yes but I am nervous because I have been having a lot of cramping like I am going to start and I took another HPT and got a positive again but sooooo nervous about it! Just dont want to jinx myself!
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If you did not do a trigger in the past 14 days then there would be no reason for hCG to be in your body UNLESS you are pregnant! :-)
Congratulations!!!
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Also, I have never been pregnant but I have heard a lot of women say they really thought AF was going to start any minute and it never did b/c they were pregnant. I pray that is the case with you!
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This is in reference to reply #7. I had an HCG trigger shot and had a BFN after only 12 days...is this unusual? I know I was testing early, but figured if anything I might get a false positive...
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Hi titlhwp, Usually they say the trigger is out in 10 days, but sometimes it can linger to 12-14 days. But after the 14 it should not be there at all.
You can however test after a trigger, say at 12 days, get a negative when in fact you are pregnant. It just means the trigger has worn off but your own bodies hCG has not kicked in enough to be detected on the HPT.
So, to answer your question, yes it can be normal to have a negative HPT at 12 days past trigger shot.
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Thanks for the info Lioness... I got AF about 2 hours after my BFN, so there wasn't even time for wishful thinking :-(
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