Charting experts - help please!

[Sonics]

I have started charting for the first time this month. We've been trying for 2 years and had one mmc in August so just trying to do everything possible to make it happen before looking at treatment.

I had a positive opk with a clearblue test on Tuesday morning but still had no thermal shift. What does this mean? Am I not ovulating? I had some initial tests done at the beginning of last year (bloods and ultrasound) and they said everything was fine but I'm thinking maybe its not. Does anyone have any experience of this?

Could it have been a false positive and I should carry on testing? I'm only 14dpo today so it did seem quite early on tues. I've also read you shouldn't use fmu for opks but the clearblue instructions tell you to.

Any advice welcome please.

Thanks

Confused of Manchester

hi Sonics firstly, I am in no way an expert but thought I would give you my amateur thoughts anyway

So the theory is that you can get and LH surge without actually ovulating and that ovulation even if you have an LH surge. So I would keep using your OPK's and DTD until you feel that your are likely to be in the non fertile area. I have had 3 days of +ve OPK's and then a thermal shift at the end so I know that the CB say stop testing as soon as you have a but until you know your cycle it might be worth keep going. CB does say you should use FMU so you should (but this does mean that you might miss your surge if it is short =-ie. starts after you have tested and finishes by the next morning). Some people use IC ovulation kits for the afternoon so they can test twice a day! You can get super cheap ones but that takes POAS to a whole new level doing it twice a day!

As for temping it isn't an exact science and everyone is different - if you look on Fertility Friend (where it is free to record your temps) every chart is different in fact FF only notes a thermal shift after three days of consecutive rises as some people (myself included) are slow rises and some peoples temps spike dramatically. So you may have ovulated but are rising slowly. Also the one thing that I have noticed since temping is that I ovulate at different times! So far CD13, CD10 and CD16 (things have been a bit stressful at the moment which I am sure isn't helping!)

Good luck

Hi Sonics, my thermal rise always seemed to come just after I had ov'd. I found charting cervical position and presentation and cm much more reliable to give me an indication of when ov was occurring and I became that au fait with it that I 'knew', well half suspected I was pregnant with DS1 before I even took a pg test because of my cervical position.

As OP said though we are all different and I know a lot of ladies who have conceived by charting temp and ov sticks. It became expensive for me to keep buying ov sticks because I eventually discovered that with both my DC I conceived on day 56 (dc1) and day 63 (dc2). so I was testing every day from day 12 ish onwards and it was costing me a fortune. (I was only buying the cheapy ov sticks too off net too).

Anyways....good luck and hope ur not waiting too long for your BFP xxxx

Thanks ladies. I don't seem to get EWCM as it is described so that isn't a reliable method for me unfortunately.

I'll keep going to the end of this cycle and see what my chart looks like.

This is why I haven't charted before and just tried to let things happen naturally - it's too bloody stressful!

Here's a link to my chart. I had been doing it on paper which is at home but have just updated the temps on there. What do you think?

fertilityfriend.com/home/395c65