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Why do doctors tell you it's impossible to be pregnant with negative test when it's well documented that some women don't have enough hcg for months?

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Real World: Some women, out of billions of women, do not in any way set the standards on what is normal. A negative pregnancy test is a negative pregnancy test in almost all of those billions of women.

Answered 1/26/2021

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A member asked:

Why do doctors tell you it's impossible to be pregnant with negative test when it's well documented that some women don't have enough hcg for months?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Robert Killian answered

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