TTC - First time!

Hi Misty. As you can see from my pics the lines get darker. It has to match the control line to be considered positive & when it does you ovulate within 12-24 hours. Once you ovulate it's the end of fw. Dtd often in your fertile week as sperm can live for 5 days I've heard so get it in ready for ovulation. Lol. Good luck xx

Hi everyone, mind if I join?
I'm 32, ttc #1, cycle #5
Came off the pill (after 15 years) in August for my wedding in September. Was dtd for fun first couple of months with the wedding and honeymoon until October when began ttc properly.
Cycles have been regular (30-31 days) and I'm using Clue app to predict my FW (it's been spot on with my periods so far like clockwork!)
Not getting any or much ovulation symptoms although I have been opk stick testing and have been having positives (or what I thought were positives... very faint line) so trying to dtd when that happens but so far nothing. Af arrives like clockwork.
I'm trying not to worry, it's possible the pill is still in my system and I've recently found out a faint opk line is not a positive, only if the 2 lines are same in darkness indicates the actual LH surge (is this true?) so I could have been dtd on the wrong days.
But we do it often during the FW so I'm now worrying that as I haven't noticed much egg white (if any!) that I'm not making enough to keep the swimmers there long enough to find the egg.
Could anyone offer any experiences or advice?xxx

Maybe a better picture, control line is left hand side on this point be.

Got this now, 24 hours after a negative. Is this positive or almost there?

This was my line this morning for the "high fertility" reading

Hi claire your line looks similar to the one I got this morning. I used the CB digital OPK and got a flashing smiley face for the first time this cycle, then when you eject the test stick you can see the line itself - looked of a similar strength to yours. The flashing smiley means "high" fertility so hopefully I'll get a peak in a few days to confirm ovulation! DTD earlier today as soon as I got the reading and will try again later.

Hope work isn't too bad for you tomorrow and as mrsj said, acts as a distraction for you .

Hi twisted what cycle day are you on? How negative was the line? From what I can tell and have read, it does darken pretty quickly, so you wouldn't necessarily see a steady increase in line strength if that makes sense!

Mrsjkerry

I didn't mean to sound horrible there... Theyre a lovely bunch of people. I did ask someone to let everyone know what happened so I don't have to tell everyone individually. They will definitely look after me tomorrow and I think it's good to go back.

I went to hospital early pregnancy unit as I had the bleeding the day before the miscarriage and had bloods and a scan but they said it was too early to see anything. I didn't go for my follow up bloods but they called and said it was a good idea to check if everything came away naturally. My hcg went from 195 to 30 in 4 days so they said as long as I got a negative pregnancy test in a week I didn't need to go back.

The only thing I didn't like was the person doing the scan obviously couldn't see anything and asked 'do you definitely want this pregnancy?'. I thought that was quite insensitive. I was on my own as my other half couldn't get out of work so she probably thought It was an unplanned single parent pregnancy!

Thanks for the wishes everyone.

I'm starting to think I had a dodgy batch of OPKs. Did one from a new lot which had a line but definitely fainter than any of the ones I've been having lately.

Hopefully this will give me an accurate indication of when it will actually happen! I've never been so happy to see a faint OPK line!

Back to work tomorrow.. Dreading everyone being lovely as that's what makes me cry....

Hi everyone. Sorry I've been off for a while but I took this last failure quite hard. No idea why & I now feel ridiculous but that's our hormones I guess.

I am now in fw of cycle 3 but unlike last time I don't feel we have really tried this month. I've been really stressed about other things which has not helped.

I mostly stayed away from OPKs this month but being two days away from when I usually ovulate I did one yesterday. Clearly negative which surprised me. How close to actual ovulation do you start seeing lines because I'm sure the last two I started to see a line but now.....

Claire88 I'm so sorry for your loss.

TTC

Yes I called First Choice who dont recommend travelling when pregnant to zika areas and will chance the destination with proof of pregnancy. We were looking at Italy or Greece instead... A bit closer to home

I really hope this is your cycle. It was the best feeling seeing those two lines on the test!

MrsJ

I really hope you get a positive soon. It must be frustrating after 5 months... Have you had bloods done or anything just to see if there's something really simple such as thyroid affecting you? I'm sure there isn't but might help put your mind at rest

Claire let's hope you'll be using your digital sooner rather than later then! Really jealous of your Mexico holiday, will you be able to re-book it if you get a BFP beforehand? We were supposed to be having a belated honeymoon this year (we just had a mini-moon after our wedding in September) but everywhere we would choose has zika, so we're stuck on where to book!

I'm just plodding along waiting to get a "high" reading on the CB OPKs, and then hopefully a "peak" afterwards. Work-wise conceiving in this cycle would be perfect timing for us, so hoping cycle #3 is a lucky one!

mrsj I can totally relate to that. We bought our house about a year ago now, but I still haven't decorated the bedroom we had earmarked as an office yet, just keep hoping it can become a nursery instead!

Welcome and good luck Annie

Hi, I'd like to join please.

26, TTC no 1, married in Sept.
Came off the pill beginning of the month after not being very good at remembering it over Xmas, knowing we were going to TTC in Feb/March so just started early!
Previous ectopic June 2014 when not trying.
Trying not to get obsessed but have just ordered some OPK's as realised I have no idea when I ovulated this month if at all, and have never had any clue about my cycle before the pill. Using Ovia.

Thanks ttc

I've thrown all but the first one I did. I've decided to do the cheapies from now on as although they give a positive result later than FRER or clearblue after losing the first pregnancy early it doesn't seem such a bad thing. Plus saving cash is always useful. I have one digital left which I'll use to confirm a cheapie when the time hopefully comes

We luckily didn't cancel our Mexico holiday (zika virus) in June so the way I'm seeing it I would rather have a healthy pregnancy but if not we have an amazing holiday to look forward to.

How are you doing anyway? We are on a similar CD do be nice to see how someone else does at a similar time to me!

Sorry claire that must have been heartbreaking for you . Feel free to come on here and vent to us all any time you need!

Mrsjkerry

I think I must have turned the notifications off so I didn't see your earlier message. I'm ok thanks I'm actually looking forward to getting back to work on Monday now I'm going a bit mad at home!

Now the miscarriage is definitely over ive got something to occupy myself again with trying again. It seemed to help me psychologically to have an aim!

How are you? Good luck with the dark OPK... Fingers crossed this is your month!

Mrsjkerry

Hmmm I do wonder why they're so dark... I can't be ovulating all month! I'm definitely going to keep an eye on it. It seems very odd. That's probably the faintest ive ever seen it! It obviously doesn't affect fertility negatively as we did conceive but I hope it doesn't affect whether I can carry a baby to term or not. Better ask the GP!

Does anyone else find their OPK this dark (or darker) throughout the month?

Currently on CD 8 if I go from the first day of the miscarriage. My cheapie OPKs and thermometer arrived this morning. I always seem to have a fairly strong line on the OPK so having to make sure it's definitely darker than the control line.

Not convinced about the thermometer as I did my temperature and first it told me 36.02 then it was 36.45 one minute later. The latter seemed more believable so went with that.

Pregnancy test came back negative so it seems all the hcg has gone from my system which is good I suppose. Just found my first pregnancy test from new years day. Made me feel quite sad! can't quite bring myself to throw it away....!

How is everyone else doing?

I'd say positive as well