OPK Help Needed?!?

[Kay_]

Hey ladies,

So I've just started this months cycle with OPK's to try and pin point my ovulation times since last month ended with a BFN. I started testing 7 days into my cycle and got a negative OPK but BD'd that day, and then tested today on CD9 and got a positive OPK!! So I've just learned that I ovulate way earlier then expected because I thought it was 14 days into your cycle

Can someone help me with how this works and when I should be having sex to improve my chances of conceiving this month? Another thing is maybe I could have gotten a positive OPK yesterday too but I never checked and I don't want to miss my window!


PS: My cycles are usually long *around 40 day mark but then sometimes only 25 days*

 

[brandonsgirl]

Opks are only prediction kits huni. Do you temp also?

So say you got your positive opk yesterday? You generally have 12-36 hours AFTER the first positive opk until you ovulate. Temping will help confirm the day you most likely ovulated with a rise in temp for 3 days.

Good luck huni!

 

[MindUtopia]

It really depends on your body and what's normal for you. CD9 is early, but not impossible. I think it definitely helps to temp when you first start using opks so you know what a positive sort of means for you in the context of your cycle. But for me, I always had two days of positives, the first being the day before O and then again on O day. So I would interpret that as meaning you're likely going to ovulate on CD10. BDing either the two days before O day or day before and on O day worked for us. It is possible to get a positive, but not ovulate. Sometimes your body gets ready to, but it gets delayed and you get another surge later in your cycle and ovulate then instead, which is why temping can help you pick up if that happens. If you are having other ovulation signs though, it could just be it's early this cycle for some reason. By positive, I'm assuming you mean it's as dark or darker than the control line? One of the tricky things with opks is that they read completely differently than hpts, which is hard to get used to at first. I would start getting a line around CD9 or 10, but that line wouldn't be positive until CD13 (as dark as the control line).