How Soon Can I Take a Pregnancy Test

M., When I got pregnant many years ago I had those same period like symptoms, cramps, back pain and breast tenderness. I don't recall how some after I took a pregnancy test but it was VERY soon after. With that pregnancy I wasn't in a place in my life to have baby and had an abortion.
I became pregnant in September 2007, my OBGYN did a pregnancy test and it was positive, I was ONLY two weeks pregnant at the time. So, I would say if it's been two weeks to a month since you had intercourse I'd go ahead and take a test. You can always try those early detection tests.
Best of luck.

I think I bought an extremely early test (the box said 5 or 6 days early) and I was not really regular, but it was probably the equivalent of 5 days early and positive. If the test itself does NOT say that early, you're wasting money to use it that early. Follow the directions for how early, but it is still just measuring your hormone levels, which may be high or low. :)

It really depends on how much HCG your body produces. Some women produce lots of HCG (the pregnancy hormone), and therefore a test will show positive sooner. You could test now, but there is no guarantee that you won't get a false negative just because you don't have enough HCG (yet) to be detected by the test. By 14 days from the date of conception, there is enough HCG in any pregnant woman for a negative test to be accurate. It never hurts to test early, for a positive test would be a reason to celebrate! I agree with others that the dollar store tests work great, and you can take one every day because they are so cheap!

I bought one 10 days after ovulation and it was positive. (Very faint) Was early result type with two pink lines.

with all 4 of my pregnancies, I tested positive around 10 days past ovulation.

The earliest that I ever had a positive pregnancy test was 6 days before my missed period, using a dollar tree test (which is one of the most sensitive tests available.) I think I was 8 days post-ovulation. However, it didn't show up positive until after the "5 minute deadline"....it wasn't until 2 days later that I got a positive result within the timeframe.

With my first pregnancy - I used tests from the dollar tree and got a positive a day before my missed period. Supposedly they work quite well (better than some name brands) and they're CHEAP so you can test as often as you want to which is really nice.