When To Take A Pregnancy Test, According To Experts

You should wait to take a pregnancy test until the first day of your missed period. Since HCG is only present once implantation of the egg occurs, there often isn’t enough of the hormone to be detected until you miss your menstrual cycle.

“Pregnancy tests pick up the hormone secreted after implantation, which usually occurs about two weeks after the sperm meets the egg,” says Dr. Culwell. “For women who have regular periods, this usually means that HCG can be detected as soon as you miss a period.”

This, of course, assumes you have a regular menstrual cycle that can be easily tracked and predicted. If this isn’t the case, you may choose to instead track ovulation, or when an egg is released and makes its way to the uterus where it can potentially be fertilized. An at-home ovulation predictor kit can help you track fertilization.

If this method is used, it’s best to take a pregnancy test “approximately 14 days after a documented ovulation,” says Zaher Merhi, M.D., an OB-GYN, reproductive endocrinologist and founder of Rejuvenating Fertility Center with locations in New York and Connecticut.

The biggest indicator it’s time to take a pregnancy test is a missed period. It isn’t the only sign, however. Symptoms that signal it may be time to take a pregnancy test, according to Dr. Merhi, include:

You can take a pregnancy test any time of the day. But if there’s a chance you’re early in pregnancy, take it in the morning when your urine is most concentrated so the test can more easily detect the HCG hormone, says Dr. Culwell.

“The best time in the cycle to take a test would be after you have missed a period,” says Dr. Culwell. “This will make it less likely that you might miss an early pregnancy if the HCG levels are too low to be picked up by the test.”

You can buy a pregnancy test at most drug stores and grocery stores, or even online.

At-home pregnancy tests are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), meaning their accuracy and labeling is evaluated before they reach store shelves. When it comes to the accuracy of at-home pregnancy tests, research shows if the test is used as directed, an inaccurate result is rare. While false-positive pregnancy test results are uncommon, if you do receive an inaccurate result, it’s more likely to be a false-negative. In this case, it’s likely you’re testing too early, before HCG can be detected.

“For most women who have a regular menstrual cycle, a pregnancy test could be taken on the expected day of the period,” says Dr. Merhi. “The earliest [time to test] would be the expected day of the period; however, I usually tell patients to wait at least a few days (or one week) after the expected day of the period in order to lower the chances of having a false result.”

It’s worth noting that at-home pregnancy tests accuracy claims—many of which advertise an accuracy rate of 99% from the day of the expected period—are based on data used in a sterile laboratory testing environment. If you think you received an inaccurate result, you can either wait and test again a few days later or see your doctor for a blood test, which can detect HCG earlier than at-home tests and has an accuracy rate of 99%.

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Oracle NetSuite: NetSuite Helps Paysend on Growth Journey

NetSuite helps payment platform automate manual tasks, optimise financial processes, and Improve decision-making to boost international expansion

LONDON, Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Paysend, a global money transfer platform, has grown to over seven million customers across 170 countries while running on Oracle NetSuite. With NetSuite, Paysend has been able to take advantage of an integrated business suite to automate financial processes, implement strict controls, gain a holistic view of its operations, and support its rapid global expansion.

Paysend was founded in 2017 with a mission to simplify cross-border payments, connect people and businesses, and increase financial inclusion globally. In 2021, Paysend secured $125 million in funding to expand beyond Europe and create new B2B services, but as its operations grew, its existing financial systems struggled to keep pace, with month-end processes taking more than 90 days. To support its growth, consolidate its financial management processes, and centralise its business-critical information to enable real-time analysis and decision making, Paysend selected NetSuite, including NetSuite OneWorld, as its global business management suite.

"Creating a single view of the business is a mission for us. It summarises how they want to work," said Ronald Millar, co-founder and CEO, Paysend. "NetSuite has made the day-to-day easier for their people by reducing the time they spend on operational work and eliminating barriers to growth. Without NetSuite, they would not have been able to take their business to the next level - from local to global and from thousands to millions of transactions each month. The best part is we've only just scratched the surface of what they want to do."

With NetSuite, Paysend has a scalable financial command centre to consolidate and automate its global financial operations across different regulatory environments and hundreds of currencies. For example, NetSuite has helped Paysend streamline financial reporting, Improve forecasting, support its tax and reporting requirements across its subsidiaries around the world, and implement robust internal controls for spend and auditing. In addition, the in-depth financial analysis within NetSuite has enabled Paysend to easily monitor the performance of its product lines and geographies in granular detail. The insights provided by NetSuite have helped Paysend inform strategic direction and demonstrate operational efficiency to investors.

"The remittance industry is big business. As more people use financial platforms to pay for goods and services and to pay one another, there is a huge opportunity for innovators like Paysend," said Nicky Tozer, SVP, EMEA, Oracle NetSuite. "With NetSuite at its core, Paysend has been able to rapidly and efficiently expand its business to seven million plus customers and has a scalable platform to support its continued international growth."

About Oracle NetSuiteFor more than 20 years, Oracle NetSuite has helped organisations grow, scale and adapt to change. NetSuite provides an integrated system that includes financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), inventory management, HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce, used by more than 36,000 customers in 217 countries and dependent territories.

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About Paysend Paysend is a next generation integrated global payment ecosystem, enabling consumers and businesses to pay and send money online anywhere, anyhow and in any currency. Paysend is UK-based and has global reach having been created in April 2017 with the clear mission to change how money is moved around the world. Paysend currently supports a cross-network operability globally across Mastercard, Visa, China UnionPay and local ACH and payment schemes, providing over 40 payment methods for online SMEs. Paysend can send money to 135 countries worldwide and has attracted more than five million consumers to its platform. As a global end-to-end payment platform, Paysend has its own global network of banks and international and local payment systems and has partnerships with the major international card networks Visa, Mastercard and China UnionPay as a principal member and certified processor. For further information visit https://paysend.com.

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