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If my period is due on Saturday and a pregnancy test today was negative - what are the chances?

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Chocolocolate · 10/02/2011 23:58

I really feel like we've failed again this month.

An early pregnancy test was negative today - we've got no chance have we?

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piratecat · 17/02/2011 19:15

been following your thread op. very weird. but as i am sure you know we don't always ovulate every month, thats what i was told by doc yrs back when i was ttc?

maybe ovulation was later though. x

knitterati · 17/02/2011 19:21

Alas not this time :(
AF arrived with vengeance. Ah well more practice needed I guess!! Sure DH won't complain about that!! :)

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Chocolocolate · 17/02/2011 20:31

Sorry knitterati Sad

I'm thinking perhaps I didn't ovulate? It's just odd as I'm normally so regular.

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piratecat · 17/02/2011 21:10

it is weird, i am gunning for you here!

from what i remember (old emoticon) you can be reg but not always ovulate?

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Chocolocolate · 19/02/2011 23:48

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm getting so fed up with this now.

Still no AF and still BFN.

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Chocolocolate · 20/02/2011 13:07

Just had a new development:

Bought loads of ovulation tester sticks off Ebay last week (ready for next month) but I'm a bit of an obsessive tester and have peed on them each day, along with the pregnancy tests, since I got them Blush

Today I got a BFP - on the OVULATION stick. Does that mean that I'm now ovulating - 3 weeks late?

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galwaygal · 20/02/2011 16:26

Hi Chocolocolate,

A positive (test line as dark as or darker than control) on an OPK means that it is picking up and Lutenizing Hormone surge, this can happen just before ovulation, or after ovulation and often just before af is due to arrive.

Your body can gear up to ovulate in a month then not ovulate, so you can get a positive opk but not ovulate then, and then get another positive later in the cycle where just before ovulation actually occurs. This might have happened with you this time.

Or it could be that your af is just about to start.

Obviously it could be that you are pregnant too, but if you were the pregnancy test would be obvious by the time the opk showed positive.

I hope you get your answer soon!

pecka33 · 20/02/2011 19:43

sorry for late reply ladies af got me, 2 days late, very unusual but i did ov quite late got a surge around 2nd so makes sense really....
Yet more ttc action commence.....

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Chocolocolate · 20/02/2011 21:38

Sorry to hear that pecka33 good luck for next month.

Thanks for all of that info galwaygal I'm not thinking that I didn't get a positive on the ov strip as there was a line but it wasn't as dark as the test line. I thought it was like pregnancy test where a line means positive.

So basically, I'm in the same position - I'm now on day 37 (of a normally 28-day cycle) with no AF, BFN and a negative on the ov stick Sad

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piratecat · 20/02/2011 23:11

blimey, how confusing.

i don't know anything about those ovulation sticks. you said you had a pos but then later say you had a neg on them. I am not sure what that's all about.

TheFantasticFixit · 20/02/2011 23:12

Hello everyone

Chocolocolarte - I'm going through the same thing but on day 35 - BFN on day 33, no sign of AF and this is the longest cycle I have had (I think - been recording for 5 months and definitely the longest since then). I just want to know either way!

Good luck to you as well - fingers crossed for both of us!

TheFantasticFixit · 21/02/2011 09:58

Oh no! I'm a thread killer!

Sproglet · 23/02/2011 17:08

Any news yet Chocolocolate !?

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Chocolocolate · 23/02/2011 21:44

Nope, I'm afraid not yet Sproglet.

No AF & bfn. I'm now on day 40 Sad

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piratecat · 24/02/2011 22:23

very strange.x

BlueCrane · 25/02/2011 16:31

choco I chatted to my doc about how soon it takes for a BFP to show up/how long it takes for the hormone to multiply and she said that in some women the multiplication can be v slow and/or the original level can be v low to start with therefore making the multiplication longer IYSWIM. I was CD35 or usual 30 day cycle when AF came last month but had been v confused with BFNs from CD30 onwards hence my query (whilst I was at the docs re. something else)...anyway, docs advice was just to keep POAS every other day and see what happens. In your case I would probably go to docs early next week if still no sign of AF as they may be able to test/help/advise and basically check there's no other reasons for AF not turning up. I've read that some people never get a BFP and yet are PG and it's only an early scan that picks it up, whilst others discovered that something had gone a bit pear shaped so def worth getting yourself checked out. Hope that's useful?

colette · 04/03/2011 22:31

choco I have been watching this thread as it was exactly like this with dd so fingers crossed for you .

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Chocolocolate · 07/03/2011 21:31

Just thought I'd give an update:

It's now day 52 - no AF & BFN!

Went to GPs this week and he just said "This just happens sometimes" didn't even do a pregnancy test as he said that the ones at home are better anyway.

I'm so fed up of waiting Sad

A friend took me to one side to have a word today. She had unprotected sex and was terrified that she was pregnant as when she'd previously had a termination she got similar symptoms then to what she has at the moment. I wanted to be supportive, but all I could think was - it's not fair - I wish I was pregnant.

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HopeCalvary · 08/03/2011 10:03

I didn't get a positive until the first day of the 6th week and I have a 2 year old son :)

HopeCalvary · 08/03/2011 10:05

I meant that as an encouragement!

HopeCalvary · 08/03/2011 10:11

Sorry for spamming, but I also really feel for you with that conversation with your friend. It must have been really painful for you.

When I was pregnant, two questions people asked me used to really hurt one was 'Are ya gonna get rid of it?' Which I think is the way you talk about rubbish bags not a baby. And the other question from complete strangers where I worked would be 'Do you know who the father is?' !!!!

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Chocolocolate · 08/03/2011 21:04

Thanks for the support HopeCalvary - I can't believe people actually said that to you!!!

I'm now at day 53 of a normally 28-day cycle with no AF and BFN. I've been getting achy low down feelings for the past two weeks so I keep expecting AF to arrive but no luck.

I'm almost sure that I can't be pregnant, but do you think it'd be worth splashing out on a more expensive test - the ones I have are off Ebay?

Is it just a case of waiting...

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HopeCalvary · 08/03/2011 21:12

I think it would defo be worth it! Have a go, at least once with a spensive one! The only time I got a missed period that long and it wasn't pregnancy, was because I was anorexic. I didn't get a period between 17 and 24! Thank goodness God had mercy on me and I got better. Let us know how you go!

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Chocolocolate · 10/03/2011 08:44

Update.

I've been feeling really 'off' this week. Getting the period-like aches, been having difficulty sleeping and have had indigestion.

It has become part of my morning routine to do a pregnancy test but I don't hold much hope any more.

However...

This morning...

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Chocolocolate · 10/03/2011 08:45

BFP!!!!!!!!!!!

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