My period is over a week late so this evening I finally plucked up the courage to test, I’ve been putting it off as I’m really scared of the disappointment.
I did the test by peeing into a pot and dipping the absorbent tip in for 20 secs, this to me seemed like the more accurate method than holding in the urine stream for 5 secs, and as it’s evening and not my first morning pee I wanted to give it as much change of being accurate as poss.
I laid it flat as instructed and after about a minute a symbol of an arrow and a book appeared, the instructions say this means there was an error with the test in that the test might have been turned so the absorbent tip might have facing upwards (it wasn’t, I was careful to ensure) or that too much or too little urine was placed on the tip.
It sounds ridiculous but I actually could cry with frustration. I really built myself up to take the test, pep talking myself all the way on my drive home from work.
Now not sure what to do... test again tonight or wait til the morning when my HCG levels will be higher? Not really ideal taking the test in the morning then going to work, I won’t be able to think of anything else all day if I do get the result I want!
Also what’s to say that the same won’t happen, as I followed the instructions to a T.
Help!! :(
