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Jennie left this comment today on the Confirm Clearly post:

My husband just returned from Iraq this past november, & we have been trying to concieve ever since. Imagine my excitement last week when I took a confirm clearly pregnancy test & got a positive result! Just like the original story, told our children, told family, & friends. Only to have the dissapointing news 3 days later that we were indeed not pregnant! I was, & still am devestated! These tests are still on the shelves! This is so heartbreaking!!!!!!!!!!
Jennie Thomas
Ft. Wainwright, Alaska

I'm still getting comments from ladies who received false-positive test results using the Confirm Clearly tests. Comments like Jennie's just break my heart!

False-positives with home pregnancy tests are known to be very rare, only occurring after a miscarriage or due to medication. Women, like myself, are trusting a home pregnancy test, only to be shocked and disappointed to find out it was all a joke.

I haven't felt like even taking a home pregnancy test after our experience back in early November. I guess if we have another baby, I'll find out when I feel it moving. :) I didn't have a miscarriage, because I was never pregnant, but the experience causes lasting emotional scars.

Besides telling everyone I know about these horrible tests, I wonder what I can do? I feel like calling the company again tomorrow and complaining some more... even though they refunded my money. A refund doesn't make up for the devastating news that you were never really pregnant. And these tests are STILL being sold. Grrrr.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2007-04-26 05:51.

I would not wait until it is moving?

You need vitamins and check ups way before you feel it moving.What I did was if I missed a period I would make an appointment with the doctor and have them check in a urine sample.Those test are not wrong!If you don't feel ok with that ask them to take your blood and test it.It takes a few days doing this but positive results this way too.

Sorry to hear you woman have had to go through this.How devistating!

Mrs. Paradis

Submitted by Tammy on Thu, 2007-04-26 22:43.
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Prenatal care

Well, I still take some high-quality vitamins since I'm breastfeeding. :)

Actually, any woman who could possibly become pregnant should take good vitamins (and/or folic acid), because folic acid is most important during the earliest stages of development... even before you would know you were pregnant! :)

And I suppose we've defied the "norm" when it comes to prenatal check-ups. ;) I liked having prenatal care, but would not have wanted all of the tests and such that some doctors push. Pregnancy isn't a sickness! It's a perfectly natural part of life. :)

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2007-04-26 06:13.

Maybe you can do this....

Maybe write to an editor or 2 of women's magazines. Maybe like 1 women's health magazine and the other, something like...I don't know know what's out there...Good Housekeeping or whatever. It can't hurt to e-mail the editors and ask if you could share a story about these tests so that other women (who don't read your blog :) ), can be informed.
That's just my help for you...
Originally I was going to say your local newspaper, but I don't know....
~Dawn Marie~

Submitted by Tammy on Thu, 2007-04-26 22:44.
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Dawn Marie, thanks for

Dawn Marie, thanks for suggesting that!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2007-04-26 07:08.

same thing happened to me

Hi there, the same thing happened to me with receiving a false positive result on a Confirm Pregnancy test. We live in Okinawa Japan as a military family, and I bought this test at the local commissary. I was so excited and then utterly disppointed when I went to the clinic the same day and was told that I was actually not pregnant. So very disppointing and now I am hesitant about all pregnancy tests. Thankfully, they have now been removed (to my knowledge) from our stores here.

Submitted by Tammy on Thu, 2007-04-26 22:47.
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False-positive pregnancy test

Awww, that's horrible!! I haven't seen any Confirm Clearly tests in the stores here, but I've heard lots of reports of others still finding them on the shelves. I guess it was a voluntary recall, so stores can still carry them. Plus, if people are at all like me, the purchased test could sit for months before being used.

It just bothers me because these tests are NOT 99% accurate, and women have no clue that the test could be faulty. I know I didn't. :(

Submitted by Mrs. Paradis on Fri, 2007-04-27 07:02.

Good Idea!

Dawn Marie good idea!

That is so surprising how many false tests that women get.I had never heard of it happening until I read it here.There should be something done about it so this doesn't continue to happen.

So SAD!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2007-04-27 08:43.

Has anyone done......

I have seen this subject on this blog for a long time now... but I haven't noticed anyone saying that they have reported this company to the Better business bureau...
If this product is still on the shelves at your local stores... (I have not noticed them here, East coast,) and they are causing this much confusion just on one blog. I cannot imagine what they are doing else where...
It was just a thought...
Have a nice weekend!
Sue

Submitted by Tammy on Mon, 2007-04-30 21:49.
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BBB report for makers of Confirm Clearly pregnancy tests

Thanks for suggesting that, Sue! Here is the BBB report I found for the company that sells the defective pregnancy tests. It doesn't give details as to the nature of the complaints, though. And I would never before have thought to check with the BBB before buying something in my local grocery store! :)

Most of the people who got false-positives from this test and have left comments here, found my posts about Confirm Clearly through search engines. :)

Martha, nice! :) No one in our families has had any of that sort of experience. :) Joshua's the most medically-inclined person in our families! :)

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-05-01 08:45.

silly question.?

I have never dealt with the BBB. So I don't know how it works. But when there is a report to them... do they make a company remove the product from retailers? Or is it just that you as a consumer have to go and check for yourself before you purchase something?

Sue

Submitted by Tammy on Sun, 2007-05-06 13:07.
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The BBB

I'm not positive, but I believe the BBB is more of a "reputation" service. If you're looking into a company (say, for contracting some work on your house) you can see what sort of reputation they have if they're a member of the BBB, by checking the records. The BBB doesn't remove products and the company isn't required to be a member of the BBB; companies choose to, for credibility purposes. At least, this is my understanding. I could be wrong, so someone correct me if I am! :)

Submitted by Martha Artyomenko on Fri, 2007-04-27 15:44.

That is too bad! Tell you

That is too bad! Tell you the truth, if I did take a pregnancy test with my pregnancies, I already knew I was pregnant before that and it was when I was barely pregnant....so you don't have to wait until it moves! I think with at least 2 of my babies, I never took a test. I agree with you, pregnancy is not a disease! I do not like doctors (nothing personal= ) and had all home births, my mom is a midwife now so it worked out well. In fact my sister had a baby recently and she had a midwife, a nurse, a doula and then her coach and husband and it was all her sisters, mom and husband! We are all happy that we can be qualified and still just have family there! Before when we could not afford prenatals, we did our own at home. I was 17 and i learned how to measure mom, take blood pressure, we bought a can of urine strips and we did weight checks etc. A friend came by a couple of times and listened to the heartbeat. Anyhow, yes, prenatals are important, they catch alot of things that cause problems!

Submitted by Joshua on Mon, 2007-05-07 13:31.
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BBB

Yes, the BBB is basically a "reputation" service. But it is a moderated one. e.g. If I place a complaint the company can respond with either the goal to resolve the issue and have it removed or to present their case why the consumer is wrong and have the complaint removed. Only complaints unresolved and found in the favor of the consumer are really "demerits". At one of my last jobs we delt with the BBB a bit. While a decent service not every company belongs to the BBB and few people are able to check it at the checkout in stores.

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