Need Advice!

[SaraElizabeth]

Hello =]

I am 22 years old, my husband and I have been actively trying to conceive for almost a year and still have not!

I have been off birth control for about 6-7 years, I'm usually pretty regular so I would track my period and the days I would be most likely to conceive and well.... still nothing.

Recently I purchased the ovulation test kit.
I DID NOT ovulate when all ovulation predictors had predicted.
How the test works is, there is a test line and a reference line. If there is only one line (the reference line) you are not close to ovulation but once there are two lines, you know it's coming up. Well the test line has to be the same color or darker than the reference line which would signal ovulation within 24-48 hours if I remember correctly, and that never happened for me

However, the day the test line was at it's darkest (which was still a shade or two lighter than the reference line), was 8 days before my missed period.
The next day, it went right back to not having a test line and just the reference line (one line)

I'm wondering if anyone else is having this kind of issue? I purchased the Early Response ovulation test kit, should I try a different brand next month?
And if I did in fact ovulate and fertilization took place, when could I test?
Would I still get my period being that the dates are so close?
I'm so lost, any advice AT ALL on conceiving would be greatly appreciated!

 

[carrie_penny]

My test line is never a full on dark line. I asked the OBGYN this week and he said that a lot of the time you are missing the tiny window where that would happen. Once the line shows, start trying and once there is no line get one more in. My husband's doctor (we went for fertility checks and wellness checks the same day) told him that we need to be going everyother day starting 10 days before the big O (whole new meaning when TTC) and continue until the line is gone.

We haven't tried it that way yet, so next month we will try the whole schedule.

 

[SaraElizabeth]

Thank You! We will try that