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Update from Confirm Clearly: My husband is pregnant! I now have all the proof I will ever need about these "Confirm Clearly" pregnancy tests. Joshua used our last re-fill this morning on his urine, and guess what -- it tested positive. Please, don't trust these "Confirm Clearly" pregnancy tests, and please tell others about their false-positive readings. See more here. Not sure I understand your comment, but I'll just say that I never thought my husband would need to take a pregnancy test, much less get a positive result when doing so! This new technology is, ummm, exciting, to say the least! :| Well, we'll see what happens nine months from now. ;) There is a male friend of mine and for a while it's been a joke that we were e-married. (The wonders of IMing!) Well, he recently declared that he thought he was e-pregnant as a result and said he took a test and said the results were inconclusive. Another friend of ours linked me to this blog after she saw your latest entry. We thought it was rather fitting considering the latest.. ..umm. . .issue with my "e-husband". ;^) My e-hubby was rather humored by it, too. Although I must say, I don't think he expected me to comment. Sorry about the confusing reply. Under the circumstances, it was just uncanny. lol Thanks for the clarification; my friend Pamela pointed me in the right direction as well. Even conned me into signing up for xanga, didn't you, Pamela? ;) But seriously, if you know women who take home pregnancy tests, warn them not to believe this test!! Unless, of course, you want it for the shock value. Which is about the only thing it's actually useful for!! Pamela was the one who pointed me here. ;^) Did she link you to my Xanga and my e-hubby's? lol Talk about a strange series of events! I do consider myself warned about the pregnancy test! Not that I'll be needing it myself any time soon, but I'll keep it in mind and let my friends know. ;^) I just can't believe these tests are being sold to unsuspecting women. It is funny when a MAN takes a pregnancy test and it produces a positive result, but it's not very funny when a woman takes one (or MORE) and keeps getting positives, only to be told later that it was all a "mistake". :( I know the heartbreak of false positives. I had 3 all on clearblue easy last year. WEnt and did a blod test- negative. Took another test a few days later_positive_ went back for another blood test_negative. So hard to go through. Thank you for warning us about that brand as well. Wow, that would be very frustrating! I think women have trusted the positive readings from pregnancy tests (because a positive reading was so frequently accurate) and I think it's horrible that so many women are experiencing heartache and added expense (additional tests, doctor visits, etc.) over these new "tests". Thanks for your comment! Hi, I spent almost 70 Cad on these so called tests. My husband got pregnant as well. I got 4 positives from 4 tests. And sure enough I got only negatives on all the other tests that I've used. I got my period too. I cannot tell you about the grief that these tests gave us. I still have all the sticks. I’ve been throwing them in a bin in the bathroom. I was so disappointed; for 2 days I wasn't able to do anything in the house. Then I thought that maybe I should keep them as evidence. Isn't there anything we can do about them? I was browsing WebMD website and I noticed an ad for these tests. I think that we should send them a petition about this product. I intent to complain to Shoppers Drug Mart as well (I live in Canada- is one of the stores that sells these tests). There are a lot of other stories on the web about them. People are complaining everywhere. I think that we need to do something about this. I intend to set up a web site about this. They really messed up with the wrong person. Please understand my frustration and my anger. My email is ioanabrat@yahoo.com . If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks, Hi, Ioana! Thanks for taking the time to comment! I saw the advertisement on WebMD for the Confirm Clearly tests, also. I wonder if they get paid for having the ad? We saved our defective test strips, too (well, after we learned that they were defective; I had already tossed my first two, not knowing that they were giving false results). You should be able to get a refund for your money from the company (Durex) but I know that a refund does NOT make up for the emotional distress and mental stress these tests are bringing to people. :( I complained to the company but they lady I spoke with didn't seem to think it was a big deal. I think everyone who has had false positives with this test should call the company or submit a complaint letter on their website, and start spreading the word to everyone they know. I sent an email to just about everyone in my address book about this issue and linked to this post and to my other review of the tests. I suggest emailing everyone you know and posting about the problem on forums and message boards. You are welcome to link to my review and if you get a website set up about this, let me know so I can link to it here, also. If everyone tells everyone, women can hear about the problem before they get a false-positive and have to Google it for themselves. :( The following links have a lot of complaints about them. http://deals.families.com/beware-of-the-far-confirm-clearly-pregnancy-tests-false-positives,t59868 http://www.fatwallet.com/t/49/665118 http://www.medhelp.org/forums/WomensHealth/messages/8861.html http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=507138 http://www.pricegrabber.com/rating_getprodrev.php/product_id=21991348/id_type=M It is really hartbreaking to hear about all these people that called their friends and families and tell them they they were pregnant.Only to find out that they were scammed. Ioana I know it sounds bizzare, but it's nice for me to know that I am not the only person going through the false positive let down. I actually thought I had a miscarriage! My husband and I were devistated. Now I just feel embarrassed and don't know what to tell me friends and family who were so happy and then sad for us! If there was a way to sue this company for emotional damages, I would. You have my sympathy... it's difficult to know WHAT to feel when you realise that all of your feelings were/are based on a lie. To the anonymous commenter who posted about a positive pregnancy test for a male: I went ahead and deleted your comment because this is a family-friendly website and I didn't want anyone to be offended by what you referenced in your comment. :) Thanks for sharing that bit of info, however; if the Confirm Clearly pregnancy tests hadn't been recalled, and if there wasn't a history of them giving so many blatant false-positive readings, we might be more concerned. :) YEA I FEEL THE PAIN I TOOK CONFIRM CLEARLY AND I WAS PREGNANT I HAD MY DOUBTS SO I HAD MY 5 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER USE ONE AND LONG AND BEHOLD SHE IS HAVING A BABY. SHE THOUGHT THAT WAS FUNNY. BUT DON'T LOOSE HOPE CAUSE 3 MONTHS LATER BLOOD TEST PROVEN I AM 10 WEEKS PREGNANT. Apparently a variety of people can get "pregnant" (readings) with that test... Congratulations on your pregnancy, though! I am glad it's "real" this time :) Hey Girls, Thanks for the heads up! I took the Confirm Clearly Pregnancy test this morning.. It was positive.. I was given the test from a friend who became pregnant 4 months ago.. Now reading the responses thank god I wasn't pinging off the walls with excitement this morning.. Meaning it was 4 days early.. So I was going to retest regardless leaving room for error. Plus knowing too early anything possibly could happen. We are going to wait 12 weeks before we tell anyone. Good thing!! Thanks again!! Thanks for commenting! I'm so glad you found out about the controversy over these tests before getting too excited! :) Ah, the suspense! I wish you all the best! :) My friend was doing some fertility research and before she could begin she had to take a blood pregancy test and it came back positive, so she took another blood test and it too came back positive; she is now not allowed to be in any fertility research at that hospital because of 2 flase positives. So I guess it's not only the at home tests that give false positives. I think that would be totally divasating, you would think a blood test would be "fool" proof! MAMA I wasn't aware that a blood test for pregnancy could give a false positive, unless the person was on some medication or something... isn't that really rare for someone to have a blood test that's a false positive?! :) The only way I would figure you'd get a false positive -blood- test would be maybe if you'd had a miscarriage and there was still tissue keeping your HGC levels high. I know we had a friend that this happened to -- she had to have two additional D & C's within a year to get it all so her levels would go back to normal. She kept testing positive -- home and blood tests -- and it was just horrible for her. She got pregnant not long after they got all that straightened out, though! Only 2 months after being married, I decided to take a "confirm clearly" test to straighten out some suspicions I had about a possible pregnancy. It was the first time I had ever taken any kind of pregnancy test. Sure enough, it was that BRIGHT blue plus: positive! We were shocked at first, and then excited. A few days later, however, it read: negative. The next one-- positive! Confused, I went to a crisis pregnancy center. Negative again. They asked me if I bought my home tests at the dollar store. I laughed, "No. I bough a pretty expensive one actually-- with refills and such. It was called Confirm Clearly...but it didn't confirm anything! And nothing about it was clear. Except for the fact that it was clearly wrong!" I'm so glad I found out that other women are frustrated with this brand of tests. My husband joked about taking it to see if it read positive. lol. But thanks to you all, I know now that I'm not the only one who has suffered on this emotional roller coaster ride. We've been married almost 9 months, and we're looking forward to having children-- but I guarantee, we will not be using the Confirm Clearly brand of tests any time soon. ~Cheryl I wish I had found this before I bought the test. I haven't taken a test yet, thankfully I only spent $4 on the box. Post new comment |
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I have an e-husband who thinks he's e-pregnant. The results of his test were inconclusive, though. :sigh: Go figure. Not sure how I should go about explaining this one to him. . .