Hello!
I've been a lurker of this site for over 2 years now. I conceived my first through charting/OPK use...prior to that I had regular 28 day cycles, I was on oral contraceptives but had no trouble weaning off of them and conceiving. After my first I had some bleeding complications and we tried a number of different contraceptives, I had the Mirena IUD (removed Oct 2015) and 2 shots of Depo Provera (last depo shot was September 2014). After the IUD, my cycles never quite returned to normal (which, I understand, can take many months for some).
The last 4 months I've had 24-26 day cycles. I have been using OPKs and my positives are never "strong" (i.e. close to but never as dark as or darker than control line). If I consider my darkest result a positive, according to my temps/opks, I ovulated around the 18th day of my cycle. I am now on CD 28, (about 10 dpo) and so technically I've "missed" my period, but I'm still testing negative, and from what I understand, 10 dpo can still be considered semi-early?
Long story (not so) short...any ladies have a short luteal phase and conceive successfully? If so, when did you get your BFP? I feel like it can be misleading when on the box it advertises "Test up to 6 days before your missed period!" (Yes, I know that the accuracy that early is approximately 30% or so...but its just laughable because for me, would've been 4 dpo lol).
Any info would be greatly appreciated. I don't have my hopes up. I have a terrible backache and cramps, but, I am grasping at straws!
-C
I've been a lurker of this site for over 2 years now. I conceived my first through charting/OPK use...prior to that I had regular 28 day cycles, I was on oral contraceptives but had no trouble weaning off of them and conceiving. After my first I had some bleeding complications and we tried a number of different contraceptives, I had the Mirena IUD (removed Oct 2015) and 2 shots of Depo Provera (last depo shot was September 2014). After the IUD, my cycles never quite returned to normal (which, I understand, can take many months for some).
The last 4 months I've had 24-26 day cycles. I have been using OPKs and my positives are never "strong" (i.e. close to but never as dark as or darker than control line). If I consider my darkest result a positive, according to my temps/opks, I ovulated around the 18th day of my cycle. I am now on CD 28, (about 10 dpo) and so technically I've "missed" my period, but I'm still testing negative, and from what I understand, 10 dpo can still be considered semi-early?
Long story (not so) short...any ladies have a short luteal phase and conceive successfully? If so, when did you get your BFP? I feel like it can be misleading when on the box it advertises "Test up to 6 days before your missed period!" (Yes, I know that the accuracy that early is approximately 30% or so...but its just laughable because for me, would've been 4 dpo lol).
Any info would be greatly appreciated. I don't have my hopes up. I have a terrible backache and cramps, but, I am grasping at straws!
-C
