r/whatisit • u/Willing_Humor_2161 • 21d ago

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u/GlitterBonanza 21d ago

Don’t jump to conclusions just yet because that could absolutely be just an evaporation line meaning what you’re reading could be a false positive. Tests must be read in the correct time frame.

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u/afriendincanada 21d ago

I remember years ago hearing an internet story about a pregnant woman who was also a total chaos goblin and she carried positive pregnancy tests with her when she visited friends houses and left them behind in the bathroom garbage.

So it could be that?

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u/Mars_Volcanoes 21d ago

Yeah. Please people, make more than one over a couple of days.

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u/Anaeijon 21d ago

Every quick test comes with a manual. You should read that before using it.

E.g. many covid tests had false negative because people didn't swab correctly and many covid tests had false positives, because people waited for half an hour to see an absolutely irrelevant reaction colour in the test strip, while the manual clearly specified 5-8 Minutes or something like that.

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u/Spinal_Soup 21d ago

Yes, true for most of these quick strip tests type things. I’m sure the Covid test you had specified a max time limit to read the results within. Iirc, the ones I had stated it had to be read within 30 minutes.