When you say you saw a very faint positive line on your HPT ...

[Anonymous]

do you mean that after a couple of minutes if you held the HPT in the light at a 45 degree angle you could see a hint of a pink line? But it was really faint - like so faint that if you held your arm straight out you couldn't see the line? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

YES!!!

Women were going on about their faint positives and if they didn't describe it as you did above I would've been really disapointed. Mine started on day 7dp5dt!

Every day it took less and less time to appear, and became more obvious, and took at least 3 minutes in those early days (ie/ bf day 12) to present itself....in the faintest way that only a crazy person would be able to pick up.
If I hadn't read all the DC urban moms methods of getting their positive I wouldn't realize I had one either so early in the game!

[Anonymous]

Yes. That's about what it was like at 8 and 9dp3dt. Only after that did the line become more visible. And I was carrying twins, so had high betas when they did the blood test a week later.

[Anonymous]

I saw something like this but it was 2-3 days after my missed period. So you may just be testing too early. By the day after that first test, the line was much clearer and showed up faster.

[Anonymous]

It also depends what test you are using. FRER for instance will show a clearer line more quickly than internet cheapies such as from earlypregnancytests.com.

[Anonymous]

I had just the kind of positive HPT test you described. My child is almost 1 year now.

[Anonymous]

All - thank you for your responses. I feel a little less crazy and cautiously optimistic that in the next few days I won't have to squint, angle and analyze this line. Fingers and toes are crossed.

OP

[Anonymous]

That's what we mean!

The two faint lines that might not be real are (1) it only shows up after the time period is over - that's not real or (2) some blue dye tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:do you mean that after a couple of minutes if you held the HPT in the light at a 45 degree angle you could see a hint of a pink line? But it was really faint - like so faint that if you held your arm straight out you couldn't see the line? Just curious.

I had a line so faint that I really wasn't even sure if it was there. I showed DH that if we hold it up to the light and look from different angles there might maybe sort of be a line. He laughed and said "test again in a couple days, sweetie." The next morning (of course) I tested again. I actually left the room while waiting for the result because being in the room hadn't worked. When I came back to the bathroom to see it at first glance I was like, oh darn! And then at second glance I saw that there WAS a faint be definate line.

GOOD LUCK!!!