Please advise! When is the HCG blood test reliable?
Hello everyone,
I've been Googling for hours now and I'm still unsure (or perhaps because of that). I took a seven-day break from my combined pill, and on the first day of the first pill, I had sex. I'm terrified that I'm pregnant. Whether it's spontaneous ovulation or some other cause.
I've read that it's even safer to shorten the pill break to 5 days. Which, in turn, means that 7 days is less safe.
I know that sperm can survive in the female body for up to 5 days.
I took the first pill of the blister pack at 7 p.m. on September 13. Intercourse was around 9 p.m.
Generally, the internet says that hCG can be detected in the blood approximately 6-9 days after fertilization. But then I've also read about late implantation.
My question is, in your opinion, how reliable is a blood test on September 29th? That would be the latest normal case (without late implantation) eleven days after implantation, right?
Thank you for your competent feedback!
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In a healing world, the pill is virtually excluded from a quite reliable method of contraception and pregnancy in the absence of abnormalities (method security).
According to the expert opinion, the fact that it does not have a Pearl Index of Smooth Zero is probably due to unnoticed or non-admitted revenue errors (application security).
Because a scaryly high proportion does not take the pill regularly. It starts from up to 80% of the pill users who have already forgotten a pill. According to a representative survey by the Society for Consumer Research (Gfk), about every fourth woman forgets the pill once a month.
Then the omission or also shortening of the pause would be “safer”, just because the error-prone pause falls away or the hormone-free time would be shorter, in which the egg ripening begins again.
The blood test was 100% reliable.
Happy for you!
Thank you for your answer.
I haven’t had the test yet. The 29.9 is only Friday.
Can you tell me why 7 days of rest are considered safe and 8 aren’t, if it takes 14 days? 8 days are still far from 14?
And the ripening starts in the pill break, right? And is it interrupted with the taking of hormone?
The time from ovulation to ovulation is not a constant size, it can take from one week to many weeks.
But only at about 1.6% of all women’s cycles, the ovaries are shorter than 9 days.
Right!
I can’t call you a source from the stettle – but I learned that 7 days are not enough for complete egg ripening.
The pharmaceutical industry isn’t stupid, if that were the case, the pill manufacturers have long reacted and turned the pill rhythm.
Then there are women whose ovulation may only be 7 days. Then the regular pill break would be too short.
Or how long is the shortest possible eirmation? Any sources?