on the clearblue digi!!! Tested again this morning and a -. If this is the real deal/surge I would've missed it by only testing in the morning. It's not uncommon to get only one + OPK, right? Now I'm just so nervous that my temp won't rise (this mornings temp not much higher than yesterdays) or stay elevated :-S and I'll still have an anovulatory cycle.
PS: The reason opk's are supposed to be done mid day is that LH is produced at night and then released through the body beginning in the AM and lasting throughout the day and into the evening, dissipating in the late-night unless you are mid-surge. This is why fmu is bad for opk's. You have to clear out all the late-night urine to make way for LH-bearing day urine. If you are mid-surge, there is a chance that you might have enough LH is your system in the AM to get a +OPK, but there is also a very good chance that your night urine will water down the small bit of LH-bearing day urine enough that you will not see a positive, even mid-surge. If you test mid day and evening, you can usually see a build up of LH over a couple days before your surge. This is why a lot of ladies swear by testing 3x a day, around 10a (unless that would be fmu, then test next pee), right around dinner time, and then again at bedtime. Since an LH surge can last as short as 10 hours, testing more often can help, especially until you know mre about your personal surge. I'd recommend staying away from fmu, even if the box says it is okay.
Hopefully once you're able to start Clomid you'll see a nice O pattern. FX'd for you!
The more precise you can be, the more correct your chart will be. What I have found works well is setting my alarm for a specific time and just going back to sleep after temping if I don't need to be up yet. I set mine for the very earliest I ever need to be up, so usually I do go back to sleep after temping. It works pretty well for me. GL!
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Powell130- It really is amazing how important timing can be. Try to temp at the exact same time each day for a few days and let me know how things go.
PS: If you wake up before your alarm, but fall right back asleep, you can still take your temp at your alarm and it should be fine. Sometimes I wake up and hour or so before my alarm goes off because I have to pee. The short trip to the bathroom followed by going right back to sleep doesn't affect my temps. It does take a few hours for your temps to settle after first going to bed, but waking up for a few minutes does not usually raise your temp enough that you'll need three more hours for it to settle down. (Now if you woke up and ran laps around your house for a few minutes, that might be a different story!
Edit: Some people also get flat temps if they temp orally due to mouth breathing. I don't know if that applies to you or not, but it is one of the reasons I chose to temp vaginally. When I started temping, I temped oral and my temps were not moving much at all. Turns out I breath through my mouth a lot when I'm asleep. (Just another thing to think about.)
