Stupid opks already stressing me out and wish I hadn't bothered :(

[VJONES1985]

I promised myself we would embark on the ttc journey in a relaxed way and take it from there. But I can't relax about anything and decided to use opks straight away and they're already stressing me out :( Can anyone offer some words of support or help?

cd8 - nothing
cd9 - nothing
cd10 - faint line
cd11 (today) - even fainter line

So what should I make of that?? Yesterday I was positive, today I'm feeling much less so!

Don't be upset. You're body is just doing what it needs to do. It's advised to wait a month after stopping anyway, in case the lining of your uterus is too thin and needs to build up. I know it's difficult, but try and stay calm and have faith it will be ok. It keeps you sane. Obsessing over ttc makes you just feel bad.

I know and I swore I would go into this relaxed,at least for the first few months. I suppose it's just waiting to find out if opk is going to be positive one day or not that is the worst bit. Bit we shall continue dtd every other day and if I weren't using opks I would be more positive than I do right now. However, at least using them is helping me to begin charting my cycle.

I think you might have had your lh surge on day 9/10 which would mean you may have ovulated on days 10/11 or 12. As long as you DTD at some point around then then you're probably covered. And if you're doing it every two days that's fine, sperm will live in your uterous for a few days so you don't have to get it precisely there. The official NHS advice is not to worry too much about the actual ovulation date and to DTD every 2 or 3 days so you are doing everything right - please don't worry.

Squigglypig - that's a good point. Maybe the symptoms I'm getting now are just 'post ovulation'. Will keep plodding on! Thank you for the encouragement!

Oh, and we dtd on cd10, 11 and 13 so fingers crossed