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This will be long, but please bear with me. I've done a lot of reading on this over the last two months. :)

Even the most sensitive urine tests need 20-25 units (I forget what they are) of hCG to register a positive result. Implantation time varies. In some cases, it can be as early as 4dpo or as late as 12/13dpo; the average is 9 or 10 dpo. Now, a completely healthy and non-pregnant woman can have hCG levels between 0 and 5 units. So let's pretend your base level was 1 unit, and you had an average implantation date of 9dpo. At 11dpo, your hCG would be at 2 units, and it would be at 4 units at 13dpo. You wouldn't be over 20 units until about 18dpo. And your cycles are short enough that you'd know from a late/absent AF before that.

No way to know for certain right now if you are pregnant, unfortunately. But I can say that you aren't necessarily out. So don't give up until you see AF!

That makes me feel so much better !!!!! Thank you for taking the time to write all that out and explain it!!! I still have very mild cramps like pinching or a sharp pain, but mostly they are dull and don't last very long when I do feel them. However, at 11dpo I had bad cramps the ones I normally get get right before AF, do u think that this was the day I implanted since I had such bad cramps?

and thank u again Sjasin you don't know how much this helped me I thought I was going crazy!!!

I typed out a big long thing and then my laptop decided to go weird and it didn't post! :(

Anyway, I'm glad I could help you relax a little. But unfortunately, I can't help much on implantation pain. I have not (to my knowledge) experienced it, and from what I've read, women seem to experience it differently - those who experience it at all!

That's ok, thanks again for your help. Still no AF and I was due today, and oddly I have no camps at all! So I'm just going to wait a few more days and test again . So, yes still definitely have hope :)