Some very sensitive pregnancy test kits can detect pregnancy as early as 6 days before your missed period (5 days before you expect your period), however the levels of hCG this early are so low that you can expect any line to be faint.
Any positive line, no matter how faint, means your result is pregnant. Levels of hCG in your body will increase over the course of your pregnancy. If you test early, your hCG levels may be still be low and you'll see a faint positive line.
A faint line on a pregnancy test probably means that it's very early in your pregnancy. Even a faint positive pregnancy test indicates that you have some of the pregnancy hormone human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) in your system. Your body starts producing hCG right after implantation.
It's possible. Some home pregnancy tests are sensitive enough to detect tiny amounts of pregnancy hormones in your system, even before you have missed a period.
A very faint line on a pregnancy test usually means that implantation has occurred and you're in the early stages of pregnancy. But you'll want to test again a few days or weeks later to see if that line has become thicker and darker, meaning your pregnancy is progressing — and you can safely start getting excited!
Early faint negative pregnancy test
The most common reasons are: Chemical pregnancy. A chemical pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg doesn't grow. A chemical pregnancy usually occurs around 5 weeks of pregnancy, after a pregnancy test can detect hCG levels in the urine.
Pregnancy test results should get darker early on as a pregnancy progresses. If your pregnancy test results seem to be getting lighter, it could be because you tested after drinking water and your urine was more diluted. Or, the first test result could have been an evaporation line and not a positive result.
Should Pregnancy Test Lines Get Darker? Although hCG levels increase exponentially during early pregnancy, that doesn't mean that the pregnancy test line will necessarily get darker as each day passes.
Disregard Color of Test Lines
Having a dark test line one day and a very light test line the next day is not a sign of miscarriage, but more likely an indicator of how much water you have had to drink that day.
Urine pregnancy tests rely on hCG in your urine. Test too early and the amount of hCG in your urine isn't detectable. As many as 9 out of 15 women will get a false negative until seven or eight weeks of pregnancy.
Your Pregnancy at 7 Weeks
At 7 weeks pregnant, you have probably taken a home pregnancy test after missing your period. If you receive a negative result at 7 weeks, you can test again or go ahead and make an appointment with your healthcare provider to confirm your pregnancy.
When taking a pregnancy test, any line in the test indication area is considered a positive pregnancy test, even if it is lighter than the control line. The darker line is usually the control line. Sometimes this second line is so faint, you can barely see it.
During early pregnancy, the amount of HCG in blood and urine rises quickly — doubling every 2 to 3 days. That means if you wait a day or two after your missed period to take the test, and you are pregnant, it's more likely the test will find HCG and show a positive result.
Rapid antigen or lateral flow tests can help to identify when someone with COVID-19 is most infectious, but even a faint line should be treated as a positive result.
While the line might be faint at the very beginning of pregnancy, as time goes on and the pregnancy advances, the line that the test produces should get darker and more apparent.
3-4 weeks. Your result is Pregnant. and you conceived approximately 2-3 weeks ago. 4-5 weeks. Your result is Pregnant.
Most home pregnancy tests detect pregnancy about two weeks after conception, so you might want to jump to week 4.
You can get a negative result on your pregnancy test for two reasons: You are not pregnant or you are pregnant, but you tested too early for the pregnancy test you used to pick up the hCG 'pregnancy' hormone in your body.
In many cases, you might get a positive result from an at-home test as early as 10 days after conception. For a more accurate result, wait until after you've missed your period to take a test. Remember, if you take a test too soon, it could be negative even if you're pregnant.
About 11-14 days after implantation, a woman's hCG levels are high enough to start causing early pregnancy symptoms. Some of these might include fatigue, food cravings, darkening in the color of the nipples, or gastrointestinal changes. When a woman experiences these symptoms, a pregnancy test may show up positive.
HCG is at its highest level in the morning when urine is fresh and not diluted by the liquid you drink during the day. If you test in the afternoon, your urine may not have enough HCG to detect.
For the most part, pregnancy tests don't get darker as they go along. “These tests are designed to be read usually within 10 minutes of you doing the test,” says Dr. Demosthenes.