HPTs - IT IS POSSIBLE TO IMAGINE A FAINT LINE?

[PAL]

I am 4dp5dt - and yesterday POAS - totally blank - white as snow - on FRED. I also did an EPT and there was a faint, faint second line - still there today - and it's blue - not a grey evap line.

Today did another FRED. I should confess that I actually pull these stupid thigs apart after a while to stare at them ..... So today, I saw a faint, faint suggestion of something pinkish that's trying to make it through. I know that no one else could possibly look at this test strip and say they see anything at all ....... but I compared it to the FRED from yesterday and that one was totally white with the outline of grey where the line would be - no hint of any color at all. I think I want this so bad and I am starting to get af feelings so I am beginning to really bum out .... I think I am actually hallucinating this ....... Anyone else do this? I'm not losing sleep or otherwise totally distracted - I am only getting a bit obessed when I am staring at the test strips ...... Have you imagined a line before? Oh, and I hve to look at it for a second - it doesn't pop out ...... I feel a little desperate!

[BC-Maura]

Hi Pal! Probably more of us have been in your shoes than not! I definitely used to pull apart tests and scrutinize the strips in all different lighting to see whether I saw a line or was imagining one! And I would make dh look too (of course)!

You are still so early (the equivalent of 9 dpo, right?) that even if the tests are negative, it's ok because you are smack in the middle of the implantation window! Or you might be seeing a hint of a line but it's so faint because of the earliness.

If you can, wait another few days and try again ... and I hope you see an unequivocally dark ++ the next time you test!

GOod luck and keep us posted+++++++++++++
Maura

[JerseyGirl16]

PAL - I just want to second what Maura said. I have personally given myself a headache staring at them for too long.

Good luck - hope it gets darker soon!

[PAL]

Thanks for the replies - I took a break from the computer and from the house (and those insipid strips) and feel much more relaxed - yes today is 9dpo - I know it's early - and I'm staying optimistic! lost some of my eyesight today but oh well!

[Kim C2]

Just wanted to wish you luck from a fellow POAS very early addict!

I hope that line gets darker & darker for you!

[PAL]

Thanks! POAS again this morning and it looks pretty blank ( I have not disassembled it though!) - At 2pm today (ha ha) I will be 5dp5dt - I know that lots of women see their + by now - and a group still do not see it - Hoping I am in that second group! Transferred 2 blasts (one hatching and one early) - hoping those little guys as just taking their time!

[BC-DKNY]

hi pal.....i agree with the other ladies. it's still early and although some women do in fact get an early pos, i think more women don't.

i have gotten out the knife and dissected more than a few hpt's. so you're not alone in your "experiments."

hope you see that nice OBVIOUS bfp real soon!

[PAL]

Well, I took another FRED about 1:00 and was literally just about to throw it out and my eye caught a very, very faint line - I wasn't even holing it up to the light! It was really there! So, of course, I took my last test from the 3 pack and it ALSO HAD THE LINE! I then headed to the store, stocked up and have had 2 more very, very faint but definitely positives! yea! Thanks for talking me off the ledge! I know this is early - but I am feeling so optimistic!

[BC-Maura]

Wow, Pal! Congratulations on all these lines! So, can you get your beta now or do you have to wait?!

Fingers crossed for you and please let us know how you make out!

++++++++++++++++++++
Maura

[Kim C2]

OH MY goodness!!! YAY YAY!!!

Let us know if/when you can go in for a beta!!

CONGRATULATONS!