Can someone look at my chart?

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We're also using a fertility monitor, the clear blue easy. I haven't quite figured out what it reads on the sticks, but it appears that it uses the same sticks that digital opk use. It mentions estrogen in the book but I don't see how it actually reads it off the stick. Considering estrogen is usually measured in the blood or saliva. I believe the dark line is a control line.

I think it reads high if LH shows up on the stick and gives a peak if the test line is darker than or the same as the control line. Which is easier than regular opks to read. I do suspect that there is a slight misrepresentation on what the product actually tracks. But I'm not too upset as reading the lines on a stick is not fun.

This is our first cycle using the monitor.

Actually, when I first started using my monitor (clearblue as well) I did a lot of research. The line closest to the pee end is the lh line. When estrogen is low, the line is dark. As estrogen rises, before ovulation, the estrogen line (the line furthest from the pee end) gets darker (this is what triggers a high reading on the monitor) then when lh surges, and you get a dark lh line, that's when you get a peak reading. As hormone levels vary from woman to woman, the lines can look a lot different for each person, and because the monitor adapts to you, it can take a cycle or two to get a peak reading...

Did some digging and found a document from clearblue that details how the lines are made. https://www.clearblue.com/uk/HCP/pdf/Clearblue_Fertility_Monitor_Brochure.pdf
Pretty interesting. It's not exactly an estrogen line, it's an e3g line. A byproduct of estrogen breakdown. When e3g is present in the urine it makes the line lighter. But from reading, the line isn't really readable by the human eye. Which is why I thought it was a control line because it always looked the same to me. Thanks for the info. Now I feel better with my purchase.

 

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I take the B6 at night with my prenatal so I don't forget So I wouldn't really notice. But the great news is, I FINALLY GOT A POSITIVE OPK THIS MORNING This is my cycle day 17.. once you get a positive OPK on a certain day is it "likely" that I will get my ovulation on the 17th cycle day every month?

It's usually the following day. It's something like 12-36 hours after a positive opk. After you ovulate you should get a temp rise above all your other temps. For the most part, if it stays high for 3-4 days ovulation occurred the day before the first high temp. It usually takes 3-4 days of temps before FF will draw the crosshairs. The egg is fertilizable possibly for 12-24 hours after being released.