If a woman experiences a phantom pregnancy, will a pregnancy test come out positive?
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Pretty self explanatory.
I read about it, and it said women can with false pregnancies experience every symptom of a pregnancy except for the presence of a foetus, of course. So, I wondered if she took a test, would it come out positive or negative, or would it depend on the severity (lack of better word) of the condition?
Actually yes it can
A phantom, or false pregnancy, is a condition in which a non-pregnant woman exhibits all the classic symptoms of pregnancy and is firmly convinced that she is pregnant even when clear medical evidence shows that she is not. The medical term for this condition is pseudocyesis.
How is it diagnosed?
The first thing a woman with a phantom pregnancy will probably do is visit her GP or antenatal clinic complaining of all the usual symptoms and minor discomforts of early pregnancy such as absence of periods; breast enlargement; nausea and vomiting; weight gain and abdominal distension. If a urine sample is tested at this stage it will confirm the existence, or otherwise of a pregnancy, but a woman suffering from a true pseudocyesis will continue to insist that she is pregnant, regardless of medical opinion.
as you can see above the urine test will show, and ifc you look up more info, you can also see that it shows in blood tests
I dont think so because you would have to be producing HCG which is the human growth hormone…which would be growing a baby…so i dont think so.
I don’t know… tell her to go and get a test and see what it comes out with.
If it comes out positive then she should go for an altra sound.
i would think it would come out negative…because the pregnancy is not actually there…even if the signs are
i don’t think a woman’s imagination could make her hormone levels go up.
Since the home pregnancy test only looks for HCG, it will come up negative. The exception is if you have a condition that can cause a false positive pregnancy test. I have an immune deficiency gene that is known to do that. So, if someone with that gene expressed had a phantom pregnancy, they very well may test positive even though they are not pregnant.
I have read of this in a few medical textbooks. From what i have read, in phantom pregnancies, hormone levels DO go up. women who took a pregnancy test found that it returned a positive result. the only way it was diagnosed was by an ultrasound. all other symptoms were present. after discovering the phantom pregnancy, all symptoms vanished.
it can as far as i know. if you convince your body enough. there have been women who have convinced them self so throughly that they lactate. so if they can start lactating then i think its fully possible
yes, it is very possible. i’ve sadly seen this close up myself with a very sick relative.
she could not have children and the want for being a mother got to her head so badly that she developed pseudocyesis. her periods first stopped, then she began having tender breasts. her abdomen began to swell, and she began lactating. her urine and blood tests both were coming back showing high levels of the pregnancy horomone. she even had morning sickness. she was the happiest we had ever seen her.
it went far enough that she had a routine ultrasound at about 18 weeks and sure enough…no baby. no placenta, no amniotoc sack, nothing. just a uterus.
after undergoing extreme treatment she was diagnosed with pseudocyesis.