Driving myself loopy with OPKs

[Charlotte1x]

My cycles are reasonably regular, usually in between 29 and 32 days and my period lasts for around 5 of those days. I’m on cycle day 17 at the moment and there is no sign of ovulation!!! 😩 This is my first month of TTC DC1. We’ve been DTD for the last few days thinking my fertile window would be starting and I would usually ovulate around cycle day 17, which is today! Usually beforehand I would start getting EWCM and my ovulation tests would be getting gradually darker over around 3 days until I get my positive. Well I’ve had no EWCM (in fact I don’t seem to have ANY discharge at the moment) and there’s no second line AT ALL on the OPKs which makes me think I’m no where near ovulation at all yet!

This is not usual for me and coincidentally has happened on the first month I’m TTC :( am I just gonna have a longer cycle for some reason? Is it possible that I’m just overthinking it that much that I’m working myself up which in itself could be delaying ovulation?! I seem to have been getting some twinges in my lower stomach but that’s it.

I’m doing OPKs constantly and getting a bit obsessive with it. I have had the occasional long cycle in the past (around 37 days) so maybe that could be happening for some reason?! Sorry for the rant xx

It could be an annovulatory cycle where you don't ov at all. These can happen every now and then.
However as this is your first cycle ttc My money would be on the theory that your stressing/obsessively waiting for ov (no judgement- we've all been there!) is delaying your ovulation. Would you be happy to stop the opks for the rest of the cycle and just dtd every other day? This might take away some of the stress 🙂

Hi op, in the nicest possible way throw those sticks away, you are over thinking it a little early, we ttc for about a year I rushed out got all the ovulation tests and thought I'd defo get pregnant then went for tests with the doctors it wasn't till 2 years after that I thought well it's never going to happen and everyone told me to relax which I thought " are you actually taking the piss " that actually when I relaxed about it all I got pregnant!! How old are you? Xx

Sorry I should have put that I found doing ovulation tests caused a lot of stress and didn't make dtd fun and loving like it should be we were to focused on ttc xx

Hi, thank you for replying! I’m 27. I knew it was a bad idea doing the OPKs on our first month TTC - I’ve been doing them for the past few months just to get an idea of when I was ovulating and always had a positive test wayyyyy before now, and I’ve always had EWCM during my fertile window as well but not this month :( so I think you’re right, I’m overthinking it and getting myself stressed which is probably delaying ovulation! I told myself I wouldn’t do the OPKs for the first few months but I did one a week ago and promised myself it was just the one, and now I can’t stop doing them! I think I really need to try and chill out but it’s very hard and unfortunately I’m a bit obsessive by nature! :(

It's your first month trying! Just enjoy the trying for at least 6 months before getting an OPK. Your age is totally in your favour!