Waiting to try, and cycle a mess from the pill

Ok thanks Sunny that would make sense about not much dye will test again tomorrow and see what happens x

I tried soy last month first. Only the lower dose 120mg per day for 5 days. Think I did it cycle day 3-7 (like you would with clomid) evidently I didn't get pregnant but you can take up to 200mg I think, so if low dose doesn't work you can up it next month. There were no side effects. OVd on day 26 last month which was earlier than previous months but hard to know if that was soy or that would have happened anyways. There is some good info on line.

Yvonne if it was the control line that was faint and there was no test line at all it sounds like there wasn't much dye in the test. Your LH level shouldn't affect the control line. X

anyone here tried soy isoflavones?

Wow I have missed loads! I didn't even realise there had been new posts. Is it not supposed to email you when there are new posts in a thread?

Good luck to everyone doing OPKs! Hope you all get your positives soon

I'm currently on 6dpo (approximately - didn't get a full on positive opk but they got darker and then faded so making a guess it was in the middle and hoping I caught it). I had a pain in my back sort of behind right ovary. no idea if this is related or not and been a moody cow today (poor dh!) Hoping these are positive signs or af signs! Currently on cd60 of cycle 1 so af's arrival is not a bad thing!

Waiting is driving me a little insane!!

fx for everyone is TWW!!

cnchapman looking back my opks have been like that for weeks though. so not really any indication ovulation is on the way for me!

Cookie sunny first- hope we can ov and catch this month we are defo due some bfps!
Took another opk again about 6 and that was the same as my earlier one so I defo know I'm going to ovulate mid week. Hopefully they get darker haha! Strangely though no ewcm I'm quite dry down there!
Guessing there's going to be a few of us on the 2ww!! XXXX

Ok thanks Firstgo x

yvonne there is always some LH present so I would try not to read much into it

OPK advice please does it mean anything if the control line is really faint? First time I've tested today and only one really faint line showed up? X

cnchapman my opk looks similar to yours today

Ps cookie that looks good, mine looked like that a couple of days before my positive! X

It is so weirdly satisfying looking at everyone's opks! I'm addicted to peeing on sticks! And looking at other people wee sticks! (Bloody weirdo! I know) can't wait til we get some bfps on here. I always check the main board every day for the "is this a line" threads! Love it. X

Thank you for your advice ladies! I think I will wait till I see the doctor and then maybe order the OPK's :)

Loving seeing these OPK's, hopefully we will get a BFP on this thread soon!

Looking good Chapman! Cycle buddies yet again! Here's a pic of my most recent OPK today. It's getting slightly darker! Hoping for ov maybe mid week. Sunny, I'm definitely going to give that YouTube meditation a try too! Xx

Thanks Sunny it's sounds really good I'm going to give it a go!

That's definitely a good sign that it's getting darker Chapman fx you get a positive soon xx

Loula yeah I would just do one a day of I were you. It's frustrating but they only take a few seconds. And you can get 50 for £7 on Amazon so it's not too expensive to do one a day from like cycle day 10ish onwards.

Chapman that's good. hopefully it will get darker over next few days. I had no lines on my first 3 or 4 this cycle and then had faint lines for the last week or more, so even if it doesn't peak straight away just keep going.

Yvonne it's just a free one on you tube. I listened to a few weird ones but I like a 7 minute fertility shakra one.. It's only short but makes me pause from a busy day for a few minutes and centres me (if that doesn't sound too stupid!). I like doing it before I go to sleep, makes me go to sleep really quickly.

My opk is still just as dark this afternoon! I recon eggy will pop tomorrow. Going to try to Dtd today and tomorrow. Xx

I've tested using a opk today and it's got the second line I know this is still negative but shows I've got the LH surge which I didn't compared to the one I took on Friday!!
Thanks for the advice sunny, cookie and loula again today I've woke up with another spot haha I've just covered myself in sudocrem! Fingers crossed this is my body getting rid of toxins and preparing me for a baby haha! Going to test my ov again later on to see if the line darkens!

Excellent news sunny for your ov I hope you catch it!!

Cookie seems like we ov st the same time haha! Time to do the baby dance and dtd this week!!

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Great you have had such a positive OPK Sunny fx you catch it this month! What fertility meditation have you been doing that sounds interesting? Xx

loula I have been doing daily opks since cd10! On cd31 today and no ovulation yet. I used them in my 77 day cycle too and managed to detect LH surge at cd62 and 63

Cookie great news on earlier Ov this month!! Keep POAS and let us know how you get on.

Sunny happy to help if I can, assuming your therm is degrees C then you are looking for a temp rise of at least 0.15-0.2 higher that should then stay high for 3 days to confirm you have ovulated. I would suggest if you've only just got your positive OPK that one of your readings over the past 2 days was a false reading (as 1 whole degree apart is a lot!) but don't worry too much, just keep going over the next few days looking out for the temp rise that stays high - just keep DTD until you get it you may not have missed out! Mine was really slow this month to pop!

Wow Sunny, great opk! So happy for you that your cycles are settling. FX for an extended luteal phase this month! First I hope you get your surge soon!

Well I did another cheapy OPK about half an hour ago (I know I shouldn't really do one in the morning) and it's surprisingly came up with quite darkish lines. Not positive at all but it's went from completely no line yesterday to darkish lines today. Will try again in a few hours and start my CB OPKs tomorrow if lines are still dark. Feeling hopeful my ov might be sooner this month! Xx

Wow congrats on your positive opk sunny. Hopefully you will catch it in time.

Maybe it is worth me buying cheap OPK's then, but how will I know when to test seeing as I am having no period? Or is it literally a case of testing everyday to see?

Thanks cookie, I will bear that in mind. Think I'll see what doctor says before trying it, although he will probably just tell me to wait!

sunny that is so dark. The levels oh LH go up loads in the blood during the surge though so it is not surprising really. Cd18 is great!

sunny got a phone consultation booked im which I aim to ask for bloods at the beginning of my next cycle. My shortest cycke was my first. Beginning to think I should have omly stopped it when I wad actually ready ttc and nof a couple of months early. Missed my best cycles

Hi first yesterday was cd18. So much better than previous months. I think il have a 29 day cycle this month as my luteal phase is really short. Iv felt more chilled out this month, I think knowing my pcos bloods were normal has just made me feel less worried about the crazy cycles, and Iv been doing some hippy dippy fertility meditation which I feel has chilled me out a bit. Don't know if that helped. Iv not taken any supplements this month as I wanted bloods to be accurate. I'm sorry yours are still negative, I know you have had a really long frustrating wait! Are you going o go to GP? Even if they just do pcos bloods to put your mind at rest.

Cookie and Chapman, I have had really awful acne since stopping the pill, proper cystic greasy sore spots and it's all over my forehead, chin, down sides of face, nothing Iv had really helps but I might ask GP about that medication.

Loula belle, sorry you are having a long wait as well. I find the temping really helps but the opks definitely work better in terms of telling you fertile window coming up, because temps only confirm fertile window after three high temps.. By which time fertile window has closed.

Opk is loads loads darker today, came up immediately with 1st morning wee, confirms that for me timing of opk doesn't really matter, if it's positive it positive! Hopefully egg will Pop today and we can catch it later.

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