I would totally use the blood test! That is awesome. Blood is far more sensitive. 5 dpo is quite early and implantation hasn't happened yet. But I would do it around 7 or 8 dpo. Based on my numbers I am sure I implanted at 6dpo last time. So you need to give it a few days to get above 5.
I dont know id do a blood test but it would be neat to try sometime.
I thought many moons ago i read you could use CBEFM sticks with the CBEDigi OPK... so i think ill tried it! (purple to purple, im not using the pink handle CB OPK).
I hate the stupid advanced smiley one but I thought why not? It worked!
AF got me finally. Glad to start a new cycle. Clomid time tomorrow! Got such bad cramps though
Sorry af got you KM. But at least you have some resolution. Fx for this cycle.
This is cycle 23 but month 24. I'd really like to got go past the two years mark without being pregnant
Yep, just as expected, starkly negative, but I couldn't help myself
I tested with a 10mIU wondfo (which I've read not so good reviews about and they are super super skinny, like you can totally tell they took a normal width one and ran them through a slicer to double their money, most of them are unevenly cut to top it off lol) a regular wondfo, a surepredict, and another lab test that I have that is a strip, but comes in cassettes as well (I have some of those too, plus they do midstream ones) If you can't tell I went a little nutso, like totally wacko
last month on eBay and amazon buying OPK's and Pregnancy test's. I'm stocked for like a year no joke.
BUT- IF any of you ladies would like to try some OSOM's without shelling out the bulk buy price on Amazon, I know a really nice lady on eBay that sell's them in smaller quantities for really good prices that I can get you in contact with
She's how I got mine without shelling out 50+ bucks (actually I think the last time I checked amazon they were like 70 something for a box! )
Aayla and OnErth- Yes, I think I'm totally going to do it with the plasma. Supposedly, you prick your finger (which she provided me with plenty of little lancets and collection cups meant to "milk" your finger) once you have a decent amount in the cup like 10-20 drops, you let it sit until it starts to coagulate and then take one of the little urine droppers with your cup tilted slightly and move what has coagulated off to the side. There should be some clear/pinkish fluid left that didn't stick to the coagulated part. You let it sit again for another like 5-10mins and then check to see if anything has clumped up, if it has move that over as well. What is left is the part you use for the test. You draw up in one of the little droppers, drop it into the well and wait. The weird part about the test is that even though the official instructions say to read it at 3 mins no later then 10, the test actually takes about 45-60 minutes to process. If a line comes up even if it's after that time, you can almost bet you are most definitely preggers. Some how they don't get evaps, like other tests do after they dry. Even if you look at it hrs later, if there is a line, keep testing, bc you are more than likely pregnant! How cool is that? I'm excited to be able to use them this cycle
OnErth- I'm sorry, I'm still trying to get used to all acronyms and lingo here, so what exactly were you talking about
What is the CBEFM sticks and the CBEDigi OPK's? And how do you use them together or cross use? I tried using the "old" CBFM sticks in my new touch screen one (bc I powered it up this cycle just so I could get a feel of how it works, even though the dates would be off, and then just waited for it to ask me for a stick) and after fiddling with over the course of an hr, I FINALLY got it to actually read one of the old sticks, but it was a lot of work and several times it would go through the 5 min reading countdown, to only tell me there was some kind of an error :/ BUT it did actually read it eventually, it was just a LOT of work to get it to. I'm planning on resetting next month, when I have the sticks that are actually for it, and using them both together to see if I get the same results or if the new one truly is better built reading and software wise. I'm actually, to be perfectly honest, a tiffed with CB for making the new touch screen monitor incompatible with the old sticks. They totally did that shit on purpose just to get you to have to buy their "new" sticks!!! Which sucks for me, bc I have like a yrs supply of the old ones, and I want to use my new monitor, but that means having to buy sticks for it. I also think it's crap that they defaulted their new monitor that also reads PT's to only read them 3 days previous to AF being due. Which is shit, bc they are well aware, that anyone looking to spend that kind of money on a OPK monitor is also a POAS addict, and is totally NOT waiting until 3 days before AF to start testing. I don't know why they didn't put the PT in with OPK stick, like one like for estrogen, one for LH, and one for a PT, that way as soon as hcg was detected it would pop up "you're pregnant"!!! Wouldn't that be fun!!!
But they did not, they made it a separate stick and made it only readable way to late in your cycle for it to even be useful, bc majority of women with the monitor will have already been testing and already know they are pregnant by the time the damn thing would even let you put a PT in it. Anyways, sorry for such a long post.
Actually sorry to the group- I know I get carried away and winded with my posts, and if it's annoying, then just let me know and I will try to shorten my response's.
I just don't have any other "outlet" for all my TTCing stuff. Either there are people I talk to that listen, but really don't get it, and I can't really get "technical" with them, or they think I'm totally obsessed and need help
So, if I need to shorten them just let me know and I will try to not write as much when I respond to you ladies
Kmpreston- So sorry that this cycle ended in a - I was so hoping that this was going to be your month.
I'm glad that you seem to be taking it pretty well though, and that you are already excited to start your next cycle with the clomid. How many cycle's of clomid have you done? Are they doing US's after you do a round of clomid to make sure that you are developing mature eggs? Have you talked to them about doing a trigger shot to make you O? So that you could go in, see that you have 1-whatever # of healthy and mature eggs on the US and then them giving you a trigger shot, so you know exactly when you O and could time BDing right on schedule too? I don't know a whole lot about your back ground or what all treatments you have went through, so if this is what you are already doing, sorry. And when you say, "This is cycle 23 but month 24. I'd really like to got go past the two years mark without being pregnant" were you being for real with that or was that sarcasm? I'm sorry, I couldn't tell, and wasn't sure if you were being for real, if there was a specific reason you wanted to hit the 2 yr mark without conceiving or not?
