Title: What is the earliest day after a missed period that a person can take a home pregnancy test and expect it to be accurate? - Quora
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Shakti Amarantha
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Content: A blood test can detect lower levels of the pregnancy hormone, HCG, and will be positive much earlier, certainly within a few days of a missed period. With a urine pregnancy test, the more concentrated the sample of urine, the more accurate it will be. That is why it is often recommended to get the first morning urine - it assumes that you haven’t been drinking during the hours that you slept and therefore your urine will be concentrated. Quora User
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Answered 6 years ago · Upvoted by
Jeff Menegas
, Board Certified Gynecologist for longer than I care to admit. · Author has 926 answers and 2.9M answer views
Originally Answered: What is the earliest time a person can take a home pregnancy test? 10 Days past date of ovulation is the earliest you would see anything on a home pregnancy test. I never saw any lines during my first pregnancy though! You'd need to chart your cycle to see when you ovulate. Many people don't have any idea, so they guess about halfway through the menstrual - day 14 in a cycle of 28 days (this really does vary widely - I am day 22 of 37...) .