Hope this helps. Good luck and let us all kno how you get on xxx, Thanks for your support. Horizontal Line on Pregnancy Test Instead of Vertical: Why? Learn more about, Learn About What to Expect's Pregnancy & Baby App. 2005-2023Everyday Health, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. Its a superdrug test. They've never broke (based on what I've seen), but I'm worried there was a chance the outside of the condom came in contact with precum. I just went through this and had 3 tests do this. Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone. A common issue with pregnancy test readings is a horizontal line appearing instead of the traditional vertical line so whats going on? Line on clearblue test going the wrong way. As the pregnancy test begins to dry, your urine starts to evaporate, pulling the small amount of stuck ink up to the top of the line. I dont know what to think! Some mothers on the What To Expect community forum discussed that, upon repeat testing, a white indent line later became faint pink and then became a clear bold positive line, so keep trying! A pregnancy test detects the presence of the hCG 'pregnancy' hormone. Im going to use the other equate one this afternoon and see what happens. Pregnancy Symptoms-but negative test ;-(preg test getting lighter :' I didn't take a pic of the first one yesterday.. I said that I would wait until this weekend and I have, goodness knows how! A pregnancy test detects the presence of the hCG 'pregnancy' hormone. What do your Clearblue Pregnancy and Ovulation Test Results Mean? It is really common with these tests and unfortunately x, I thought so and could only really see it when I held it up to the light. Update: now that its dry the vertical pregnant line is still there but the horizontal line has vanished im so confused!!! Interpretation of horizontal line in pregnancy test. And i had some light spotting for 2-3 days more like per cut blood and not much of it which wasnt like. 2004. Obviously it's faulty but I am surprised there was . . Take another test in a few days. Dr. James Rochester answered. An evaporation line is a line that appears in the results window of a pregnancy test as the urine dries. If the RIGHT strip got put in crooked, the line would appear facing the wrong direction with the same chemical reaction as if it had been facing the right direction . Thanks! It's just one test. , Ill definitely re test but its so weird to me that it was horizontal! The test is suppose to show two vertical lines if pregnant, i got a horizontal appear quite quickly and an extremely faint vertical. The world's first 1 minute pregnancy test. Not ONE but TWO Pregnancy Tests w/ Horizontal Line