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Retest one week after your missed period, some tests are sensitive enough to use the day your period is due but others are not. By one week after your period was due, your hCG will be at a level any HPT should be able to give an accurate and reliable answer.

Using the HPT 5 days before your period is due is always going to be unreliable, unless you have very irregular cycles. Generally speaking, ovulation occurs 14 days before your period is due, you then have a 24 hour window to conceive. 10 to 12 days after conception the fertilized egg starts implanting into the uterine wall, at that time your hCG level starts rising and will be at the necessary 50mIU/ml to 80mIU/ml - between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 weeks following conception, which just happens to coincide with the week your period is due.

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Is spotting 10 days before your regular period a symptom of pregnancy?

Spotting alone is not an indication of pregnancy, you would have to have other symptoms to tie it in. It could be a sign of implantation. I would wait for more symptoms or a late AF before assuming PG.


If you are spotting before your period and are not on the pill could you be pregnant?

Yes and no, if you are spotting it may very well be just that, spotting. But it could also be 'Implantation Bleeding', common in early pregnancy. Best way to find out, go to the shop and get a pregnancy test. Better way, go to your doctor and get a blood test.


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Can you conceive a day before your period and experience spotting?

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Is spotting right before your period mean that your are not pregnant?

No. Spotting can occur during pregnancy.


Is it normal to have brown spotting two days before you start the placebo pill?

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What could cause spotting 11 days before your period is due?

Implantation bleeding = you are pregnant!


What does it mean if you've been spotting for 3 months after your periods and now you have brown spotting?

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Does implantation bleeding occur in every pregnancy?

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If you have spotting a day before your period is due you have never had spotting before could you be pregnant?

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