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don't listen to those people who say that you are not pregnant that the line is an evaporation line it's bull shit i have had 3 kids and a miscarriage and when i wasn't pregnant the test stayed negative for weeks on end and the ones that say positive even with the faintest line were positive b/c if the second line was an evaporation line i wouldn't have 3 babies upstairs a sleep would i hope this help and congratssssssss on your pregnancy love rayxxx

I had a very very faint line in the beginning of a pregnancy. The best thing to do is to wait 3-4 days and retest again. The line should become darker. Have you missed your period or are you testing days before it's due? I tested before I missed my period, that's when the line was so faint I thought I was imaging it. But couple of days later it was very vivid.

told you that if you have a faint line then it means your pregnant good luck to you and your new baby love ray xxx

That test is AWESOME! I used it 7 days after I ovulated and got positive results immediatly! It works....my positive was later comfirmed with a blood test.

actually my periods have been a little odd since september, bleeding 1 day (medium flow) and spotting for 2, when my usual period is heavy bleeding for 3 days. I have suspicions of being pregnant for a while and i have had many negative hpt's. think i might just have to go to the doc asap.

i would take another you shouldnt wait more then 10 minutes max. And i've used the dollar tree brand and it usually works withing 3 minutes, its the same test that planned partent hood uses. Trust me because thats how i found out i was pregnant the first time then i had a miscarriage. Now i might be pregnant again and the 2 lines showed up withing like 2 minutes but the t line is faint so i'm not sure what to think or do. What do you guys think?

I will add to what the first few posts say. I have taken MANY MANY MANY tests in my lifetime (2 live births, 2 miscarriages, some scared months, and some hopeful months). By golly when a faint line appeared, whether 10 minutes later, or an hour later, it meant I was pregnant!!!!!!!!! And when a line did not appear, I'd leave the test sitting for days waiting for a line to appear. You know what, a line NEVER appeared. That phony evaporation line is bull shit!! That is a myth, and that is something the hpt companies put on their darn boxes to give themselves some wiggle room! If evaporation lines existed, I dare to say I would have at least seen it once, as many tests as I have taken. Listen to experience, not crap on the side of a box. Chainsaw manufacturers put on their product, "do not attempt to stop chain with hand". Hellllooooo???? Point being, companies have to put that crap on there JUST INCASE. Know what I mean? Honey, if the line is there, it's there. And if it's there, your pregnant!! Do NOT listen to the nay-sayers who take stock in that frickin 10 minute crap!! I'm not picking on you, Lisa, there are a few women who always find these posts and shed their pessimism on this subject. A faint line means positive, that's all there is to it.

amen to that, m! i have been trying to get pregnant for 8 months now, and i have spent a load of money on tests. last week, i got a faint faint line after nearly an hour, then a couple days later, it was after 30 minutes or so, and now it's right off. the blood test also said yes pregnant! in the previous 7 months, obviously i got many negative tests, and never once did i get one of those evaporation lines that i dont' even think exist!

I tested this morning with a HPT, faint line showing a positive result after a couple of minutes! I was ecstatic, though my DH is being cautious and not getting excited until I go for a blood test, because the line was faint (but clearly there at arm's length therefore I've decided it can't be a 'shadow' line!)... anyway I'm glad that the general consensus is that a line's a line and it's positive!

Just a follow up!!! Evaporation lines dooo exist. I just went to the doc and all results are negative. So for all of you wandering they do exist. I thought it was a positive test and believed so after listening to ur responses and only to my dissapointment i am NOT pregnant. gl 2 u all ttc

if it was neg at first, and then an hour later it was positive you are probably not pregnant. This has happened with every negative test I took, and I was never pregnant when it did that

maybe since different people body are different that if you alway have a neg then pos.. and it is pos.. and some vice versa that is how your body is.. for me i never got a line.. even after one month.. now this month i got faint lines after 20 min with different brands.. and some neg..

Well, that's a confusing subject (evaporation lines) Because I too have taken MANY many tests that came up negative and left them sitting around and never once did they develop any sort of evaporation line. Then I took an ept test that shows up with a plus or minus sign. Well, it was just a minus sign at first.. but then an hour or so later, it was a positive. Faint, but it was definately there. I thought maybe it was an "evaporation line" but then I retested again 3 days later and it was a definate plus sign, and it came up quick. I'm thinking there just wasn't enough HCG in my system for the test to be triggered within the alotted time frame or something! But I'm pregnant now.

Most of these over the counter pregnancy tests, pop apart very easily , making it easy to look at the strip directly and make sure it's not an evaporation line.

You guys are crazy!! And to prove it I gave my husband a pregnancy test and after 3 hours he had a faint positive line. Results read after ten minutes are not accurate!!!!

b, you sound oddly irritated. Seems, you are definitely in the minority here. It's funny nobody here has seen this mysterious "evaporation line"..... well, except you. You had your husband to take a home pregnancy test????? And you call US crazy????