What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020)

Re:What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020) by maweki on Sunday February 06, 2022 @06:59AM (#30231742)

I urge everybody who thinks these tests are always easy to read to look at this page where women are indeed seeking help on interpreting their tests: https://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/pregnancy-test-gallery/...

The comments are very interesting and you should take a peek. Helpful commenters are using image editing tools to check out whether the second line is actually there or just imagined.

A second stripe means a life-altering situation and with regards to access to terminations, time is very much of the essence.

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Re:What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020) by jcims on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:31AM (#30231940)

Agreed. The sort of reductionist takes in here that blame education or illiteracy indicate a lack of experience.

Unfortunately in these borderline cases the only way to know for sure is to wait a few days and try again or set up a doctor's appt to get a better test.

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Re:What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020) by maweki on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:43AM (#30232011)

Having these additional few days or not having them is incredibly important, depending on your jurisdiction.

In Germany, for example, for abortion (without medical indication) to be penalty-free you have to have a so called "pregnancy conflict counselling session" and the doctor's appointment all within a certain timespan. Now during covid, many of those doctors and the counselling services did not operate or only in a diminished capacity.

Those few days are nothing to sneer at.

Of course, another solution would be better/non-penalized access to these services and better preventative health care. But we're getting nowhere by just pointing at root causes without the radical action to change them.

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Re:What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020) by throwaway932489 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:04AM (#30232140)

I get the desire for the clear binary answer from seeing lots of similar problems with COVID tests. But if I bought this test I'd feel a bit scammed, I'd expect some magical fully digital process, the borderline results still exist with this system but are hidden, it kind of ruins it if you know that.

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Re:What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020) by krastanov on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:44AM (#30233500)

Could you elaborate a bit? I must be doing something wrong because most (9 out of 10) of these look negative (single stripe) to my eye on my monitor. Am I wrong about that? Or are you trying to point out that obviously negative tests still cause confusion and conflict in many of the users?

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Re:What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020) by maweki on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:01AM (#30233699)

I guess the unsure ones are not the best example, though there are a few with incredibly faint lines. Maybe look at the positive ones. There are quite a few where I would strugge: https://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/pregnancy-test-gallery/...

The fact that the site provides on-line tools to change contrast, etc., is telling in itself.

But here are direct comparisons between an analog an digital ones:

* https://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/pregnancy-test-gallery/...

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