Trying before AF?

[ArmyWife1984]

My opks are all over the place, im ready to through them all in the garbage!!!!!!!! lol
Started on cd12 and it was a faint second line for the last 4 days and now today neg.
No idea what is going on with my body.

BD cd13,14, &16 I usually O right around 14. Hopefully I caught it!!!

It sounds like you misunderstand how to use OPK's. OPK's, unlike pregnancy tests, can have a line most of your cycle, but that doesn't mean it is positive. A line that is as dark as or darker than the control line is considered positive with an OPK, so a faint line would be negative. This is because it detects a hormone called LH that is almost always present in the body. It increases as an egg is about to be released, and, thus, will make the OPK test line really dark right before ovulation (between 12 and 48 hours before, depending on how early your surge is and how early you caught your surge). I know they can be totally confusing sometimes! Hope this helps And lots of baby dust to you! I hope you get an obvious positive soon! FX'd for you!

thank you Ya I used them with DS and i always got a fade in. So i would get a faint line that gradually got darker darker and darker. so I figured my fade in was starting in those 4days with the faint second line...but instead it got lighter and disappeared lol. well i guess just let nature take its course

 

[markswife10]

My opks are all over the place, im ready to through them all in the garbage!!!!!!!! lol
Started on cd12 and it was a faint second line for the last 4 days and now today neg.
No idea what is going on with my body.

BD cd13,14, &16 I usually O right around 14. Hopefully I caught it!!!

It sounds like you misunderstand how to use OPK's. OPK's, unlike pregnancy tests, can have a line most of your cycle, but that doesn't mean it is positive. A line that is as dark as or darker than the control line is considered positive with an OPK, so a faint line would be negative. This is because it detects a hormone called LH that is almost always present in the body. It increases as an egg is about to be released, and, thus, will make the OPK test line really dark right before ovulation (between 12 and 48 hours before, depending on how early your surge is and how early you caught your surge). I know they can be totally confusing sometimes! Hope this helps And lots of baby dust to you! I hope you get an obvious positive soon! FX'd for you!

thank you Ya I used them with DS and i always got a fade in. So i would get a faint line that gradually got darker darker and darker. so I figured my fade in was starting in those 4days with the faint second line...but instead it got lighter and disappeared lol. well i guess just let nature take its course

No prob They can get lighter and darker a bit before they finally become positive. I have had that happen before and I know how frustrating it is! Last month I didn't O until CD 19 when I'm used to O'ing around CD 14-16, so, needless to say, I was getting quite frustrated! I get the faint line for a long time before they start darkening into a positive gradually (like one day I'll have darker pink line, but nowhere near positive, the next day it will be almost positive, the next day VERY positive). I hope your body cooperates soon for you! It is also possible you could have missed your positive (or maybe you O'd early?). I would suggest to keep taking OPK's and keep Bd'ing and hope you have some answers soon!

 

[ArmyWife1984]

My m/c bleeding stopped on cd8 and I started using opk's on cd12. So it is possible I may have missed ovulation. Hope not.

i'll just keep at bd'ing and opks

last month when you o'd on cd 19 was that right after m/c?

 

[markswife10]

My m/c bleeding stopped on cd8 and I started using opk's on cd12. So it is possible I may have missed ovulation. Hope not.

i'll just keep at bd'ing and opks

last month when you o'd on cd 19 was that right after m/c?

If this month is the month of your miscarriage, I would say you will likely O a lot later than normal.

No, last month was just another month, cycle 3 since the miscarriage. I didn't O until CD 25 on the cycle of the miscarriage. It depends on how long it takes the HCG to get out of your system. I O'd less than a week after my HCG finally came back negative on a blood test.

 

[ArmyWife1984]

My m/c bleeding stopped on cd8 and I started using opk's on cd12. So it is possible I may have missed ovulation. Hope not.

i'll just keep at bd'ing and opks

last month when you o'd on cd 19 was that right after m/c?

If this month is the month of your miscarriage, I would say you will likely O a lot later than normal.

No, last month was just another month, cycle 3 since the miscarriage. I didn't O until CD 25 on the cycle of the miscarriage. It depends on how long it takes the HCG to get out of your system. I O'd less than a week after my HCG finally came back negative on a blood test.

thanks ! I didnt know that. This is my month after m/c I just miscarried on November 19th so still haven't had AF yet.
I hoping to catch the egg before af!!!!!! That witch!!!

cd18 today and neg opk again. Been very gassy----hoping maybe its a sign lol.

 

[xxemmyxx]

I havnt ovulated since mc I don't think, been having mega long cycles, taking fertilaid this cycle and noticing some strange things, on cd 11 and 12 I had pink cm, not brown or red just a bit of pink when I wiped, I thought maybe ovulation bleeding great but still not peak on my clear blue fertility monitor, cd 13 now, been getting pains in my sides and lots of wind don't know if this is cus of the fertilaid!? Just really want to ovulate now!! Been bd'ing every other night just in case

 

[xxemmyxx]

I have never had a positive opk, only ever stark white or a faint line, the line gets a little less faint sometimes but never dark

 

[meeky81]

I have never had a positive opk, only ever stark white or a faint line, the line gets a little less faint sometimes but never dark

Hey Ladies, Sorry for all your losses

I've been stalking this thread, hope you don't mind me asking a Question.

I've never used OPK's before, so just been POAS up until my AF (waiting til then before TTC again), to see what sorts of results i get and what to look for...well other than one day last week when it was pink(when i think i did actually ovulate, because i had pains)...they are completely white?

Emmy - I notice you get this too? does it mean we don't have the LH hormones in our body?? did you get a positive the month you got your BFP? I'm worried that maybe i'm lacking in some of the hormone?

Thanks

 

[xxemmyxx]

I have never had a positive opk, only ever stark white or a faint line, the line gets a little less faint sometimes but never dark

Hey Ladies, Sorry for all your losses

I've been stalking this thread, hope you don't mind me asking a Question.

I've never used OPK's before, so just been POAS up until my AF (waiting til then before TTC again), to see what sorts of results i get and what to look for...well other than one day last week when it was pink(when i think i did actually ovulate, because i had pains)...they are completely white?

Emmy - I notice you get this too? does it mean we don't have the LH hormones in our body?? did you get a positive the month you got your BFP? I'm worried that maybe i'm lacking in some of the hormone?

Thanks

The month I got my BFP I didn't use opk's so I don't know what it would of looked like on an opk, since the mc I started using opk's and then the cbfm and never seen a positive or a peak on the machine, I can see a faint line on the opk but it never gets darker! I almost want a positive opk as much as a positive hpt!!

 

[flapjack10]

Sending all you girls some lovley

Hello to the newbies! Sorry for your losses

Love to all

xxx

 

[mummy2o]

My cousin might still be pregnant after all. She had spotting and thought that was a period >.> and then has missed another period. The only glimmer of hope for me not to lash out at her all her pregnancy tests are coming back negative. She's going for bloods on monday. I so wish I could slap common sense into her.

 

[aknqtpie]

Mummy - I am betting she has something else going on...

AFM - I went to the doctor today, and since my HCG levels are pretty much non existent.. they are putting me on progesterone supplements to jumpstart my system. They want me to wait one cycle to start trying again.. and I decided to honor their wishes... so I will officially be trying in January. (or end of december)

 

[Libbysmum]

agh Mommy I totally hear that! It seems so tragic that some women have unwanted pregnancies while other women are desperate for a baby!

 

[xxemmyxx]

My cousin might still be pregnant after all. She had spotting and thought that was a period >.> and then has missed another period. The only glimmer of hope for me not to lash out at her all her pregnancy tests are coming back negative. She's going for bloods on monday. I so wish I could slap common sense into her.

She has a new born doesn't she? Maybe her cycles just havnt returned to normal yet xx

 

[mummy2o]

Thanks girls. It is possible, but it is also possible she is having neg tests due to the amount of medication she takes for various illnesses. After her little one was born her cycles did go back to normal more or less straight away, but I guess they could mess up after 2 months. It's just very stressful for me as she likes moaning at me as one of her defenses but due to the fact she's bipolar I don't want to upset her to much in case she gets depressed and decides to do something stupid. But then I guess I have you guys and my OH who's been wonderful about the whole thing.

 

[vietmamsie]

I think I would go nuts with your cousin around! Glad you have others to talk to to let off some steam about the whole thing.

Over here I don't really know whats going on. I'm hoping I O sooner rather than later, but we're not really trying this month since I've just sort of been blah abut the whole ttc thing. I really want my life back... I realized that the first 2 weeks or so of my cycle are my favorite... I don't really think about ttc and obsess of every twinge and pang in my body. the week or so when I think I'm going to O is fun because we have so much sex, then the tww is unbearable. I feel like it is going to destroy me. Who can get pg when they are so stressed about the whole thing? Starting to lose hope over here.

On the plus side I have been working out a lot and my new diet has been going well. Turns out I lost 3 kilos since the mc so I'm not as fat as I thought!

 

[xxemmyxx]

I think I would go nuts with your cousin around! Glad you have others to talk to to let off some steam about the whole thing.

Over here I don't really know whats going on. I'm hoping I O sooner rather than later, but we're not really trying this month since I've just sort of been blah abut the whole ttc thing. I really want my life back... I realized that the first 2 weeks or so of my cycle are my favorite... I don't really think about ttc and obsess of every twinge and pang in my body. the week or so when I think I'm going to O is fun because we have so much sex, then the tww is unbearable. I feel like it is going to destroy me. Who can get pg when they are so stressed about the whole thing? Starting to lose hope over here.

On the plus side I have been working out a lot and my new diet has been going well. Turns out I lost 3 kilos since the mc so I'm not as fat as I thought!

Well done for the weight loss!! I am trying so hard but Christmas isn't helping! X

 

[vietmamsie]

I'm pretty lucky to live in a not very christmas-y country, so there aren't many christmas parties or treats around which makes dieting easy. But that also means that we only get christmas day off in schools, not two weeks like in the states. Boo!

 

[Libbysmum]

Schools in Australia get 6-8 weeks off over xmas

 

[vietmamsie]

you're lucky though because it's summer in Australia this time of year. Where do you live there? My hubs when to school in Melbourne for a year and he really wants us to move back there some time.