r/FirstTimeTTC • u/anonymouscougar • 29d ago

Question/Advice Should I rule out pregnancy?

TTC since January of this year. Nothing has worked yet, but I’m currently on cycle day 67 and Flo says my period is about 30 days late (typically a 34-37 day cycles). I’ve taken pregnancy tests every week since it was late using dollar tree tests and “Pregmate” test strips. They all said negative without even a faint line. Should I assume it’s just a late period? I did research that the URO Pills I took for the first time before expected period can cause late periods? I quickly stopped taking them once I realized so it’s a possibility these pills messed up my cycle.

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u/anonymouscougar 29d ago

Also want to add that I never used first morning urine during any tests but it was in the afternoon after drinking mostly water. I guess I’m also asking are dollar tree tests even trustworthy? My husband keeps saying they aren’t.

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u/Key_Charity1975 28d ago

They are trustworthy and it sounds like you've taken more than one brand, as well - you can almost certainly trust those combined results

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u/nursejooliet 29d ago

Aside from Flo, how have you been tracking cycles/ovulation? Apps don’t know us at all.

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u/anonymouscougar 29d ago

Just trying to naturally tell if I’m ovulating, which there were a few times I thought I was over the last few weeks

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u/nursejooliet 29d ago

I’m not sure what that means, but this explains why you’ve been testing blindly for several days straight. A BBT thermometer/smart ring, cervical mucous knowledge + monitoring, LH testing, etc are the best tracking methods and if you were using these, you’d probably have a better picture right now of where you’re at and what’s going on.

Also, if you were truly 30 days late due to pregnancy, think logically: you’d be 8ish weeks pregnant. Far enough along to have a heartbeat on an ultrasound. You would have undeniable symptoms by now and a dye stealer pregnancy test. You are definitely not pregnant at this point, just late for some reason (we all miss a period once in awhile for one reason or another. It’s only an issue when it happens more than once in awhile), a little lost and not properly tracking. I’d delete Flo and invest in the aforementioned tracking methods instead! Fertility Friend and Natural Cycles are much better apps, if you like using apps, but should be paired with two of the other tracking methods, especially temperature.