With our neat little tool, you can take or import a photo of your pregnancy test stick and apply photo effects to make that hopefully visible second line easier to see. Current effects include brighten, contrast, grayscale, invert, exposure, gamma, hue, saturation and sharpen and we are continuing to work on adding more features!
We also provide a community where you can share photos of your tests or other TTC-related photos that other users can vote and comment on. You can also do the same for others! We realize how stressful and frustrating the process of becoming pregnant can be, especially for those of you that have tried so hard and yearn for that pregnancy test to finally be positive after months or even years of disappointment.
As such, we added a baby dust feature that we hope will provide a little comfort and encouragement to you during your journey to become pregnant. Should you run into any issues, we would sincerely appreciate it if you could send feedback to us first in the app instead of leaving a negative review and we will work to address your issue as quickly as possible.
Thank you! Discover and connect with more people in the community using the newly added suggestion list! We also made UI improvements and bug fixes that will hopefully make your experience even better. Thank you for your continued feedback and using Pregnancy Test Checker! Hi, my name is Maygen Guillot and I am I user of this app! I love it and it works so great but I have seen some issues. Take a photo of your pregnancy test result between 5 and 10 minutes after you took the test.
To get a good photo:. Throw the test away. Pregnancy tests that sit for longer than 10 minutes can develop dark gray "evaporation lines" from the dye, which confuses the result. Begin tweaking the photo of your pregnancy test. You can use your phone's photo-editing app, use photo-editing software on your computer such as Photoshop, or download an app designed specifically for test tweaking.
Be sure to:. When you tweak a pregnancy test, you're looking for signs of a faint second line that could indicate that you're pregnant. The problem is, there are many factors that could lead you to mistakenly think you see a positive result. These include:. Unfortunately, there's no way to know for sure whether you're seeing a real line or a fake one. You could ask for help in an online group see below if you don't feel confident in your test-tweaking or interpreting abilities.
Test tweaking is something you can do if you're hungry for an answer and just can't wait. But keep in mind that test tweaking won't always work and can lead to false hope or unnecessary anxiety. One concern is that a faint line could be a sign of a chemical pregnancy. This is a very early form of miscarriage that happens when a fertilized egg briefly implants in the uterus but is then expelled because of a defect.
It "sticks" just enough to generate some hCG but isn't a viable pregnancy. Usually you wouldn't even know this had happened — you'd bleed right around the expected time and would never know it was anything but a normal period. So getting an early positive result because of test tweaking could cause needless emotional distress. Early signs of pregnancy can include food aversions, mood swings, frequent urination, fatigue, sore breasts, light bleeding or spotting, and nausea.
However, you won't know for sure whether you're pregnant until you get a clearly positive result on a pregnancy test. It's also possible to get a blood test to see if you're pregnant.
These tests can detect pregnancy as early as six to eight days after ovulation. However, blood tests are more expensive than urine tests and must be ordered by a doctor. This pregnancy hormone is produced by the body 48 to 72 hours after the fertilized egg or the embryo is implanted on the uterine wall. The levels of HCG in urine can be below the detectable range during early pregnancy and it will not show in the tests. If the levels of HCG in urine are less while taking the test, it might create an unclear line on testing.
Digitally improving a high-quality photo of it can make this line visible, helping advance detection of pregnancy. However, when it comes to taking a photo of the HPT and processing it, there are many factors in play. Not taking the picture properly or a little mistake in processing can easily give a wrong result.
When you are trying to conceive, waiting for one more week to know if you are pregnant can look like a lot. Tweaking the test is an easy way to know quickly if you are pregnant but it is never recommended by medical professionals. Digital adjustments of the results can easily give false outcomes.
A little mistake in enhancement and you can get a second streak on the stick, though you are not pregnant. Similarly, if the HPT was not taken correctly, even after the adjustments you will get the wrong answer. These can have serious psychological and emotional consequences [5] for the woman and also the family. Digitally enhanced HPT results are not medically viable as the chances of getting a wrong result is high. Sometimes, there is a pregnancy that leads to spontaneous miscarriage within a few days.
Most of the time you will not even know about it. Just your period will come maybe a few days late. This type of non-viable pregnancy is clinically called chemical pregnancy [6]. Chemical pregnancies are common and it does not mean that you will have trouble conceiving again.
In case you have a chemical pregnancy, there could be a slight increase in the HCG levels at first which can create a faint line on HPT, generally invisible. If you enhance the test, it might become clear, giving a positive result.
However, as the pregnancy is spontaneously miscarried within the next few days it can be emotionally painful. Not trying to know if you are pregnant in advance is suggested by the doctor because if you are pregnant, you will anyway know it within the next few days. Digital enhancements are prone to errors and can create unnecessary confusion and psychological problems.
According to doctors, it is an unnecessary and error prone trend that is mentally harming women instead of helping them. If you do not want to wait to know if you are pregnant, going for a blood test is a more reliable option than trying to digitally modify the HPT.
Home pregnancy tests can be digitally tweaked to know in advance if you are pregnant but there is no reliability or medical viability to the results. There are ways to improve the accuracy of tweaking but it can always give false or unclear results. It is best suggested to wait for a few days before taking the test again if you have missed a period but had a negative pregnancy test earlier. The primary objective of digital enhancement of HPT is to reduce anxiety, but according to doctors, instead it can be a reason for serious and unnecessary mental stress.
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