Is it true that home pregnancy tests cannot detect HCG once the levels become too high?
January 2, 2011 Categories: Pregnancy
Question by krs11: Is it true that home pregnancy tests can't detect HCG once the levels become too high?
I stated just read a forum online, and someone that once you get HCG levels to a certain level during pregnancy, they are too much for an at-home urine test. So you can be very, very pregnant, but have a negative HPT, if you move too long to have testen.Ich never heard before. Is it true? I do not get the way to word the question to a precise answer to Google.
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Answer by Becky preg EDD 10th June
i dont think so i took a pregnancy test at 20 odd weeks in last pregnancy and it showed posative, and i know someone who took one either at 31 weeks or 39 weeks and that was posative, so i would state its not true
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That is false! It won’t detect low HCG levels but it will detect higher ones. I forgot how much you have to be secreting for the test to pick up but there isn’t a limit on how much the test can detect.
It’s not true, however it is possible to be very pregnant and test negative on a test. It’s not because the HCG levels are too high, but because they have equaled out and are too low for the test to pick it up. Some women’s levels will stay high enough to test positive all throughout their pregnancy, some won’t- but you never test negative because you have too much HCG.