OPK as HPT?

[ljg72]

Ran out of HPT so used OPK.
Came out positive? is that a sign of pregnancy? anybody know?

Come on lady, don't keep us in suspenders! Grab yourself a hot quick, so that we can congratulate you properly! Hurry up, I'm waiting with baited breath...seen you on a few threads here and there: hope it's your turn now! Keep us posted. Good luck xxx

Grab yourself a hpt quick is what I meant. This predictive text thing can be very annoying!

You can use OPK as HPT as the OPK picks up both hcg and lh (they are very similar), but HPT only pick up hcg

so you are either pregnant or ovulating

do a HPT now!

Thanks Row and Fedup bought a Superdrug own brand twin pack.
Both twp! BUT have been been reading that this brand sometimes gives false positives? wtf??? is that about??.

Guess I will just have to sit it out and wait...got twp last month and next day AF rocked up! thanks again girlies x

There's no such thing as a false positive, IMO. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Do another hpt first thing in the morning when your wee is more concentrated. What cd are you on? How long are your cycles normally? Maybe you're testing too early hon?

Well I know , but last month was very, very PANTS!!!! I'm on cycle day 28 13dpo.

Never had a positive any earlier than 13 b4, but did have weak + at 10dpo with FR...then neg with ebay ones?...

I'm just soooo foookin impatient tho...

Will be back tomorrow x

p.s whats IMO? me is brain dead

No idea what twp means but if you've got a positive pregnancy test, it's because you're producing hcg ie you're pregnant. False positives are very, very rare.

IMO is in my opinion.

You poor love, I feel for you. Keeping my fingers crossed that this is your lucky month. IMO( in my opinion). Keep your chin up, it'll all come right. I'll look forward to congratulating you tomorrow. Take care, hon xxx

ljg:hope evrything is ok? let us know either way. keeping my fingers crossed for you x

Hello!...did yet another test and it was weaker than yesterdays...

Showed Dr and he agreed that it looks like hormone levels are dropping, and thinks it's looking like another chemical one.

He's agreed to start tests on me and DP as I seem to be able to conceive but it doesn't stick (Very s*ite)...just so horrid that my body is screaming "Pregnant" one minute and then changes it's mind... so basically just waiting for af to show.

Having had not even a sniff of anything other than water, caffine free diet coke and decaf tea WTF???...I will be consuming my body weight in WINE as soon as the biatch shows up .

Thanks for your support girlies, helps alot! hope you are all doing ok? xxx

Hi ljg, so sorry for the way this has turned out. Good job the doc is investigating. Hope you get lucky soon. Very new to this ttc malarkey. Where do you guys regularly hang out? X

Thanks hun...I'm on the monthly bus and also the cbfm vol 4 .
p.s Dp has brought home wine choc and sympathy...bless, so I thoght before I consumed any I would bring out the big guns...CD Digital!!!! it says 1-2 weeks? WTF??? more waiting and NO winex

OMG...keep praying. I'm soooo pleased, but please please don't drink the wine, eat all the chocolate. There's hope yet. I'm totally with you here. Keep posting. Ask s
Doctor to do more bloods and ask for an early scan. Please Dear God let this be your month. I don't normally pray or anything, but watching the pope on tv as I post this seems somehow appropriate. I am sending sticky vibes your way xxxxx.

which brand of test was fainter? Different batches have different amounts of dye so even based on the same brand it isn't reliable to compare the strength of the line, early on I would think it means nothing. Superdrug test at 10mIU, whilst most others are at 25 (CB Digital) or 50, so superdrug tests are really sensitive

Thank you so much Fed up, I went to church myself this week! I am catholic, but don't usually practice...thank you for your advice and support...let me know where you hang out too, and we can keep in touch! sending positive vibes to you also xxx

Hi ROW the superdrug was fainter today...but for some weird reason my fmu is always weak??? and afternoon/eve is always stronger? strange I know!...the Dr looked at the tests I had done and thats why he agreed! but now I have the cbdigital one I have no clue?...maybe it's picking up the hormone...but it is still dropping?...OMG this is a mare!!! want to wake up in & weeks time and all be good!.

Thanks for your support XXX

8 weeks time even!!!... doh!

I've just stalked you on the CBFM thread and you could still be 2 days early? Wait for two days and test again, this early the concentration of hormones in urine could really vary. Fingers crossed for you honey, also I found as I left tests they tend to get darker so if you showed the GP the old test it wouldn't really be comparable.

Ha Ha thanks Row yeah my cycle is a bit odd sometimes but usually 29 days. I hope your right tho...XX

hi ljg72! hope you're fine. how's it going? i hope you are still pregnant and that my prayers have not gone unanswered, especially considering that i can't remember the last time i prayed: except for you, of course! only joking, hon, seriously hope that you have your affirmative BFP. keep posting so that you can bow out with a bang on your own thread-at the very least!xxx

Hello Fedup yeah I'm still here clinging on!..refrained from POAS yesterday, but caved today after a quick dart to the 24hr tesco's!...still saying pregnant 1-2 weeks, so keeping everything crossed, bloods being taken Tuesday, so hopfully get results soon, and just praying hormone levels are ok?? and rising?.

How's you anyway? what's your story? we all have one ...bored of going on about me! XXX

hi ljg! keep positive, fingers crossed.
Well, re: us! we got together 7 years ago, married 2 years later. both of us professional career people. thought children would come along whenever they were ready to! we weren't using contraception and therefore not actively trying or preventing, leaving it in the lap of the gods, so to speak. Now, I'm 40, dh is 43 and childfront:nada. we've been activelt trying for 2 years, with no success. had some tests etc. came back as "unexplaine infertility". back to square one. We were considering private treatment, but with elderly parents' health being quite frail, are at their beck and call at the moment. The last couple of months have had hopes raised, symptom-spotting wise, only to be dashed to nothing. My cycles are very regular, and i ovulate every month. we DTD before, during and after ovulation, no results. My BMI is 23, his is 22. we dont smoke or drink. have healthy diet. very frustrated and cant seem to see the wood for the trees.
its hard not to become tired and rather cynical of the whole farce, but what can we do? i am actually not very optimistic at the moment. i mean what are the chances when you dont know what the problem is?
well thats us in a rather large nutshell.

Fedup...I'm so sorry you are having such a hard time of this ttc lark, what makes things worse is when you are doing everything in your power to be as healthy as possible and not getting the results you want.
To not be given a reason for whats going on after testing must be so hard, I really feel for you. It is imposible not to symptom spot! especially the closer you get to testing time! you mention you noticed symptoms? maybe they were symptoms?, my gp says that sometimes conception does occur causing syptoms, but doesn't embed for so many reasons (50%)and is flushed away in AF.
Last month I got a positive the day before AF due and AF turned up on time but really heavy...I think alot of women who are late or who are not testing have this and just assume it's a late af.
Hopefully things will happen naturally for you soon...it's so draining emotionally, and I know personally it becomes all consuming! which can't be good for anybody.
We spend years trying NOT to get pregnant, as we are all warned from such a young age that if we do it once! we will get pregnant!! and the day we decide...Yes we want to, it doesn't happen!.
I hope you and your DH start to put yourselves first (hard I know with commitments)and really consider the private option?...I'm also concerned about the age situation 38!.

As hard as it is having unexplained results...being healthy and fit has to be a good thing for both of you...I live close to a town where I see young pregnant girls drinking and smoking all the time!OMG I really have to stop myself sometimes! I guess they have youth on their side, but it seems really unfair when so many of us are doing all we can to be healthy, conceive and give birth to a healthy full term baby!.

Thank you so much for your support on here, it is such a comfort, can't talk to anybody in RL as they don't understand, and why would they.
Glad you joined cbfm thread too! ladies are lovely and supportive.

XXX

Thanks for such kind and generous words. Everything you have said is familiar to me and resonates very much with what we're going through at the minute. You are so right, from a young age it's been instilled into us, that if we so much as look at a guy in the wrong way, we'll find ourselves pregnant: so not true. Like you, for most of our lives we actively did everything to prevent a pregnancy and now, here we are tryingto achieve one.
We have to live with our life choices, but I can't help but feel that as teenagers we should have had a talk somewhere along the line guiding us to a rough estimate of our fertile years, so that we could have made informed decisions. Instead we focus on climbing the corporate career ladder and the biological clock almost certainly is ready to explode once we have achieved our goals workwise. Sorry for the rant, but it does lift. aweight off your shoulder sharing this otherwise almost unbearable pain.

Rant away! anytime! that's what were here for...to all support each other x