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Can Macbroid Taken For UTI Cause Positive Result On Pregnancy Test?

I am 2.5 weeks late on my period. I have taken 5 home pregnancy test and have been taken medicine for a uti. One that I was allergic to (bactrum) and then was prescribed macrboid. All of my home test were negative with out question. So I asked my doctor and they took a urine test and it came out positive. I don t feel lie in pregnant and I ve had two kids already. But something feel wrong. I have a lot of abdominal pains( not like ones in early pregnancy, but more like a soft continuos contraction) and sharp pains that shoot from my spine to my toes. Could the medicines I was taking for the uti cause my 5 test to be negative or is there something wrong with me? And not in the terms of being pregnant.
Mon, 14 Sep 2015
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Hello and welcome to HCM.
As an Urologist, Macrobid( Nitrofurantoin), is not known to cause a false positive pregnancy test. Neither the antibiotics taken for UTI, cause a negative pregnancy test. They're not known to do so.
You can confirm the report, by doing the test at a standard lab, or even check your blood for pregnancy. As far as your abdominal pains are concerned, kindly get an ultrasound abdomen done, after an examination by a doctor,and blood routine, sugar, creatinine,bilirubin,and send a copy to me, for an expert opinion, as a direct question.
Dr.Matthew J. Mangat.
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Can Macbroid Taken For UTI Cause Positive Result On Pregnancy Test?

Hello and welcome to HCM. As an Urologist, Macrobid( Nitrofurantoin), is not known to cause a false positive pregnancy test. Neither the antibiotics taken for UTI, cause a negative pregnancy test. They re not known to do so. You can confirm the report, by doing the test at a standard lab, or even check your blood for pregnancy. As far as your abdominal pains are concerned, kindly get an ultrasound abdomen done, after an examination by a doctor,and blood routine, sugar, creatinine,bilirubin,and send a copy to me, for an expert opinion, as a direct question. Dr.Matthew J. Mangat.