clearblue fertility monitor - should I get one

[Karbea]

i'm thinking about getting one, in my basket on amazon but i've just watched the video... do i wee on a stick everyday? If so, how can 20 be for 2 cycles? Do I have to start on the first day of my period? coz i'm on cd3, so would need to wait a whole month I'm sure it's easy to use... but it looks complicated

Don't worry, it's not that complicated. You just poas and then put it in the monitor. Really not much different from a hpt. For the first month it will ask you for a test every day from day six until you get a peak or run out of sticks (it can't take more than 20 sticks). As it can be used for cycles up to 42 days you can easily get through 20 sticks and still have no peak, but for shorter cycles it should be more than enough. After first cycle it starts to know your cycle better and will start asking you for less tests (that's what it says- have yet to find that out as only just finished my first cycle of using it). You can start it up to day five, but day one is not necessarily your first day of af. You have to set a testing window so if af arrived later in day than your chosen testing window, day 1 for the monitor will be cd2 by normal calculations. That probably doesn't make sense, but download the manual from the clearblue website as that is pretty clear.

Good luck