35yrs + and trying ✨🫶🏼

Thanks @curliegirlie- I didn’t upload a photo as it’s just an ovulation test with one line! I was mainly wanting to check that it’s normal to have no line at all at some times of the month - I.E. a line only appears when you’re close to ovulating (which I’m at least 4 days away from now!)

I can't see any picture but LH levels fluctuate across the month, and the surge can vary: back when I TTC DD1 I used to have a couple of days of positive OPK, but more recently I've had very quick surges which go up and back down in the space of a couple of hours. Basically, keep with the testing and see what happens. If you find the OPK darkening round about mid-cycle (or even a bit later - DD2 was conceived around CD24!!), that may well be your pre-ovulation surge, even if you don't see a true positive. Then AF may (or may not!) arrive 12-14 days after that. Good luck!

More stupid questions from me - I took an ovulation test this lunchtime (as a sort of practise tbh) I’m on cycle day 10 and have a 28 day cycle so the little piece of paper in the tests says to start taking them on day 12. Question is - didn’t see anything on the test - is that ok for day 10 or does it mean I’m not going to ovulate this cycle??

Ahh, so sorry to read that @SophieP89, limboland is horrible. When did you get negative tests? My first post-MC cycle was 29 days (I got a negative just under a week after the MC), although saying that, with my previous one the positives hung around for 3 weeks but that cycle was still only 30 days. Although I have no idea whether I ovulated on those...no idea if it's connected, but my second post MC cycles both times were short (24 days and 18 days 😳) so that's something else to watch out for...

Hey, I'm still in limbo with my cycle after my mmc last month, been over 5 weeks and haven't ovulated and no sign of a period returning yet 🙃
My ovulation tests seem to be getting a little darker the last couple of days to I'm hopeful that I might be approaching ovulation, feeling so frustrated, I just want something to happen so I know where I'm at.

Feeling crap tbh. AF arrived on Thursday at CD18 FFS! Last cycle was definitely very random so everything crossed for a more normal one this time. Again, as we were in the Easter holidays/Annual Leave etc, last cycle I think we DTD pretty optimally, despite ovulation coming silly early, but still nothing 😩...

I was exactly the same this month @SCK2024 ! We were away and mine came a day early but only lasted a day and a half but I had a lot of back ache too that I don't get normally! My tests came back negative 😞 Really thought that this was going to be our month! Onto another new cycle!
i really hope you get good news! 🤞 x

Maybe worth a test if your period has completely disappeared after one day....

Good luck!

Aw still a good few days until your due on 🙌🏼

Good luck this morning I hope you get your BFP ✨

Hello

Just jumping in here, I’m 41 with 3 teens and lost a pregnancy in 2023. Got my BFP this morning, I’m so scared I loose this one too, obviously I’m older and I have an underactive thyroid so it’s a worry.

Yes. You need a BBT thermometer which gives you the readings to two decimal points - they're about a fiver on Amazon, and then you take your temperature first thing when you wake up, whilst still lying down. If you find OPKs accurate (and AF arrives when expected afterwards) temping isn't strictly necessary, but it can be useful to have the extra confirmation. I'm not sure I'd have believed my dark OPK was real on CD6 if my temps didn't seem to confirm it - I'd still be looking out for a second surge 😂

Yes - and so much easier to interpret than other charts I've seen (PreMom, I'm looking at you!). Fertility Friend gives crosshairs when it detects ovulation, either when you input a positive OPK (when tracking with OPK alone), or if you also track BBT, it goes by that - and assumes ovulation when you have 3 temps which are 0.3 degrees above your pre ovulation average.

I both use OPKs and have been temping since the miscarriage to help confirm what's going on in case the MC has sent things out of whack. I got a nearly positive OPK on CD6, but I had a couple of random temps in the following days, then missed a day, so it took longer than usual for FF to spot the 3 days of elevated temperatures.

I would take your first positive OPK as the one you count from (unless the one the following day was darker).

Last month, although I got a BFP with Boots early pregnancy tests at 9dpo, it took a couple of days before it showed up on the One Step, despite them theoretically being the same sensitivity.

Fertility Friend now reckons I'm 5dpo, although I could be 6dpo, because I had a missed temperature last week - FF put ovulation as 2 days after my LH peak which is out of the norm for me.