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Can you get a positive pregnancy during breakthrough bleeding?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

If you have bleeding: ; are actually pregnant then yes, a pregnancy test can show + if the HCG level is high enough. But if you experience bleeding and you are not pregnant- the pregnancy test will be negative. The test measures for HCG - not for bleeding.

Dr Pappas and another doctor agreed

Answered 10/25/2016

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