Why are OPKs so annoyingly expensive!!!!

poppy · Oct 27th, 2007, 19:04 PM

I have bought a new batch of Clearblue digital OPKs - £22.00 - aaaggh!!

I want to know roughly when in the month I ovulate - especially as last month my period came two days early.

...but £22.00. Now I know you can buy cheaper, but I like the fact that on the CB digitals, they give you a definite smiley face thing when your LH levels soar. With those two line things, I probably would sit there for ages squinting at them and miss the surge altogether.

Does anyone know any websites that you can buy good opks cheaper, even better, digital CB opks?

Samanthajane7 · Oct 28th, 2007, 07:02 AM

I get mine from access diagnoses, they are much cheaper.

Arcanegirl · Oct 28th, 2007, 07:17 AM

I got mine from Wobbles

suzan · Oct 28th, 2007, 07:26 AM

AGREE!!
I mean, what the hell!! it's only ovulation! anyway, I stopped buying them, its great I decided to stop buying them, not bec they are expensive but bec it makes me nervous the whole testing for everything thing!!!!
I dont buy them only though so cannot help u sorry.

By the way, why buying a digital one? I think that the non-digital is fine and not that expensive, am I wrong?

Arcanegirl · Oct 28th, 2007, 07:35 AM

Some people still get confused over the normal ones and find it easier with the digis.

poppy · Oct 28th, 2007, 09:08 AM

Yeah, with the digital ones, a circle = no surge, a smiley face = surge detected (when you take the strip out of the machine, you can actually see the lines). With normal ones, you have to compare the two lines. For a surge to be detected, the line has to be as dark or darker than the test lines. This means lots of squinting at the lines trying to determine whether they are 'as dark or darker than the test line.'

suzan · Oct 28th, 2007, 10:10 AM

Am with u in that. But isnt the normal ones cheaper?

**Wobbles** · Oct 28th, 2007, 10:41 AM

ebaying in advance poppy! Can save yourself at least a fiver a time x

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sear...trypage=search

Arcanegirl · Oct 28th, 2007, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poppy

Yeah, with the digital ones, a circle = no surge, a smiley face = surge detected (when you take the strip out of the machine, you can actually see the lines). With normal ones, you have to compare the two lines. For a surge to be detected, the line has to be as dark or darker than the test lines. This means lots of squinting at the lines trying to determine whether they are 'as dark or darker than the test line.'

And if youre like me, you never get the test line darker than the control line. Just to add more confusion!

Samanthajane7 · Oct 28th, 2007, 15:41 PM

FF can detect ovulation without using opks anyway, so Im going to stop using them now I think.

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poppy Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,023	Why are OPKs so annoyingly expensive!!!! I have bought a new batch of Clearblue digital OPKs - £22.00 - aaaggh!! I want to know roughly when in the month I ovulate - especially as last month my period came two days early. ...but £22.00. Now I know you can buy cheaper, but I like the fact that on the CB digitals, they give you a definite smiley face thing when your LH levels soar. With those two line things, I probably would sit there for ages squinting at them and miss the surge altogether. Does anyone know any websites that you can buy good opks cheaper, even better, digital CB opks?

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Samanthajane7 Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 21	I get mine from access diagnoses, they are much cheaper.

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Arcanegirl Pregnant (Expecting) BnB Spammer Elite Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Glasgow Posts: 27,267	I got mine from Wobbles

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suzan Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Somewhere in the desert Posts: 2,596	AGREE!! I mean, what the hell!! it's only ovulation! anyway, I stopped buying them, its great I decided to stop buying them, not bec they are expensive but bec it makes me nervous the whole testing for everything thing!!!! I dont buy them only though so cannot help u sorry. By the way, why buying a digital one? I think that the non-digital is fine and not that expensive, am I wrong?

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Arcanegirl Pregnant (Expecting) BnB Spammer Elite Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Glasgow Posts: 27,267	Some people still get confused over the normal ones and find it easier with the digis.

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poppy Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,023	Yeah, with the digital ones, a circle = no surge, a smiley face = surge detected (when you take the strip out of the machine, you can actually see the lines). With normal ones, you have to compare the two lines. For a surge to be detected, the line has to be as dark or darker than the test lines. This means lots of squinting at the lines trying to determine whether they are 'as dark or darker than the test line.'

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suzan Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Somewhere in the desert Posts: 2,596	Am with u in that. But isnt the normal ones cheaper?

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Samanthajane7 Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 21	FF can detect ovulation without using opks anyway, so Im going to stop using them now I think.

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