Monday, March 19, 2012

More instructions.

While waiting the recommended five minutes to confirm the negative – plus another five minutes just in case a second pink line decided to spontaneously jump to life – I read through the pregnancy test instructions again, wondering if perhaps there was something I’d missed before that I could do then to help that second pink line along.

Unfortunately, there wasn't anything like that, but there was this:

A number of conditions other than pregnancy, including trophoblastic disease and certain non-trophoblastic neoplasms including testicular tumors, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer, cause elevated levels of hCG. Therefore, the presence of hCG in urine should not be used to diagnose pregnancy unless these conditions have been ruled out.
Is there really somebody in this world who could pee on a stick, get a BFP, and then have to wonder whether it was due to pregnancy or a testicular tumor?

6 comments:

  1. perhaps someone who identifies as intersexed. just saying... although, i don't know if they can get pregnant... curious...

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    1. Hmm ... perhaps I was thinking too much "inside the box." Good point.

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  2. How bizarre. You are far more observant than I am though. I think I would have just read it and thought, 'nope, I don't have any of those things' and carried on my merry way.

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    1. Well, I am (was?) a lawyer ... so I know very well that those "disclaimers and limitations" are there to be read!

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  3. Yeah...that's weird. But I bet if it is listed, it is because someone tried it and complained!

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    1. At least I know now that I'm not just being dramatic when I say to my husband that he has more of a chance than getting a positive than I do!

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