Would an Ectopic Pregnancy Show Up in a Pregnancy Test?

An ectopic pregnancy will give you a positive pregnancy test, as the hormone produced still gets into the blood stream. If you have a negative pregnancy test, would be very unlikely to be an ectopic, but there are rare situations when this can happen.

As well as a positive pregnancy test, typical symptoms for an ectopic pregnancy include:

• Pain, which is usually one-sided but may be more generalised.

• Bleeding - this is usually not very heavy and may be just a brown loss. The blood loss is thought to be due to the low hormone levels made by an ectopic, which allows the lining of the uterus to come away. • Fainting or dizziness, which may be due to internal bleeding lowering the blood pressure. Shoulder-tip pain. Blood in the abdomen can irritate nerves which are shared by the skin over the shoulder area.

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IUDs Reduce Pregnancy Rates Compared to Hormonal Contraceptives, Review Finds

Women who have had intrauterine devices (IUDs) fitted as contraceptives IUDs Reduce Pregnancy Rates Compared to Hormonal Contraceptives, Review Finds

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Lead researcher Justus Hofmeyr, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of the Witwatersrand and Eastern Cape Department of Health, South Africa, said the study highlights issues of choice in contraception. "This information will be useful for counselling women regarding their choice of contraception," he said. "The importance of choice is suggested by the fact that fewer women stopped taking hormonal contraceptives when they were allowed to switch between different types."
are less likely to become pregnant than those who have hormone injections, a new review by Cochrane Researchers has found. The review, which focused on women in developing countries, also found a possible link between contraceptive method and disease progression in HIV.

An IUD, sometimes known as a "coil" (although IUDs are no longer coil-shaped) is a plastic and copper device that sits in the womb preventing sperm from crossing it and making its lining less likely to accept a fertilised egg. There are also IUD's which contain hormones rather than copper, which were not evaluated in this study. In many countries IUDs are not widely used, perhaps because they can only be inserted by skilled professionals. Women often experience pain after insertion, but IUDs may be preferred long-term to other contraceptive methods because they last for five to ten years and have no hormonal effects. Hormonal contraceptives, by comparison, have been associated with side effects and require more frequent visits to the health care provider for injections or prescriptions.

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