Hook effect?

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Has anyone experienced the hook effect?

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No, my test have always been positive.
If you haven't got a positive and are still at the point of your missed period, you wouldn't be experiencing it anyways.

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Not me personally but working in L&D I had one patient. She kept coming to the ER with abdominal pain. Urine tests were negative, blood tests were negative. They ended up doing an X-ray one of the times and boom, baby bones. She was 20-something weeks and still getting negative tests. I haven’t known anyone else this has happened to, it’s pretty uncommon.

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Yes this past week at 6 weeks. I took a test because I was bleeding for two days. Then of course got nervous when it was lighter and researched it. First test is regular urine, second is diluted and third is diluted even more.

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Yes but my tests were positive not negative. At around 17 dpo (3 days late) I started getting stronger lines with diluted urine instead of FMU. If I mixed my pee with water the line would get darker. If you're still getting negatives at this point you're likely just late. It happens 🤷🏽‍♀️

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I actually have not and I took a random test around 20 weeks pregnant just for fun to see if it would happen. But usually with testing progression it goes faint lines, clear lines, dye stealer, then hook. If you went from faint line to nothing without a clear line happening I wouldn’t assume it’s that ☹️ but you can always go in for a blood test. The hook effect happens usually after 500k HCG level. You test positive on a blood test for pregnancy at 25. So you’ll know for sure if you go

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I haven’t but I have seen someone on another app who did it, it was a thing. Not much of a difference to the color but some.

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