What does missed period with negative pregnancy test signify? – Dr. Shailaja N

Here we can’t come to conclusion that she is not pregnant because pregnancy testing is false negative for that thorough history is important whether she has regular 28 days cycle, whether she remembers her date properly and how she has checked, whether morning sample has been checked because pregnancy hormone, concentration is more in the morning small rather in the later part of the day. So after confirming all these things if she has all the symptoms of pregnancy, if pregnancy test is negative, then better to conform the pregnancy with the blood tests measuring the serum levels of the pregnancy hormone. Also we can say that on early pregnancy, the hormone level is low in concentration so that the home pregnancy test is negative. In such cases the home pregnancy test can be rechecked to confirm whether she is pregnant or not. Suppose she does not have pregnancy symptoms at all, and pregnancy test is also negative which is properly done. Then we should counsel her, wait for the spontaneous onset of the periods and come back if you don’t get your period s and pregnancy test is persistently negative.