TTC number 2

[Explorers10]

Is it me or does number 2 seem to take longer to conceive?

Top one is the first one, potential evap....

Hmm...I am the most deluded POAS addict ever but even I don't think you can get a line at 4dpo. That looks quite convincing though! Is there any chance you ovulated earlier than you think??

Ooooh, that’s interesting. Run out to a pharmacist and see if you can get a first response one and then try (and probably fail) to hold out for fmu tomorrow morning? However, if you are right about 4dpo then it can’t be a positive surely?

Yeah that was my thought, but I got my first positive OPK on Friday morning, it wasn't quite positive the evening before so fairly sure I can't have ovulated earlier than Friday.

I've been TTC for a long time and never even had a sniff of an evap, so would be pretty bad luck to get two in one evening. The OPK is dark enough to be considered positive now (that pic was taken about 2 mins after I dipped the hpt).

Nothing for it but to wait until tomorrow I guess.

I mean it's either wrong or I'm more than 4dpo right chemist ?

No chance of a frer tonight, but will get one tomorrow morning if IC is still positive

@Chips4dinneragain whaaaaattt!?!? This is exciting/confusing/weird! Any chance your last AF actually may not have been AF? DPO4 definitely wouldn't show but then those lines have colour to them too. I'm baffled

If it’s not wrong, you OVd earlier than Friday. HCG is what pregnancy tests detect, and the embryo doesn’t start to produce it until it detects implantation, which is almost never less than 7dpo, and commonly between 9&12 dpo.

So if it is positive, you OVd early and missed the LH surge, which can be as short as 8 hours.

Rather strange. I’ve got all my fingers crossed for you, but the dates don’t seem quite right.

Yes the dates are definitely out if it's positive. I just don't see how the dates can be any different, for lots of reasons I won't go into (as it will only further expose my batshittery).

Will update in the morning after having spent the whole night POAS

Let us know once you've got your hands on a FRER! Fingers crossed x

Good luck @chipsfordinneragain
Got my fingers crossed for you!

@sassenach84 thank you you are right it’s positive to find these issues now and a step forward. I will try not to lose hope. Need to try and get rid of negative thoughts and be in better mindset to conceive next month

Got this on a two hr hold, in total shock!!!

Sorry photo is crap, I'm at work so took the pic in the toilet! But its definitely there, definitely pink and came up within about a min.

Yaaaaaaaaay! Congrats @Chipsfordinneragain!

Cheers crazychemist guess I ovulated before I got those positive OPKs on Friday and Saturday then. Im CD17 today, so latest I could have ovulated is CD9. I guess this is a prime example of why you can't rely on OPKs, I thought I was fairly textbook and had it down - regular 2 days of positives around CD12 and testing twice a day from CD7, still slightly flummoxed.

@chips4dinneragain

OMG congratulations!! I’m so pleased for you!! Miracles do happen!

Thank you explorers it is feeling pretty miraculous right now! obviously very early days, but enoying the moment non the less.

@Chips4dinneragain absolutely amazeballs! So happy for you! But what the heck :-O

So you OV'd and then also DTD a good 3-4 days before the positive OPKs then? And on a CD that was not your usual OV day? That's that crazy but really great!

Well I DTD on CD6 and CD8, then not again until CD 12+13+14. If I got a positive pregnancy test on CD 16 (admittedly in the pm after a day at work where I didn't have a single drink) then I reckon the absolute latest I could have OVd would be CD10.

So that really begs the question how I got positive OPKs on CD12 and CD13? It would have been too early for it to detect hgc, but I guess my LH surge could have spanned CD10-CD13 and ovulated before my peak? I have read research that the average surge lasts 5 days, so I wonder if it is possible to ovulate at the start of the surge before it peaks (which might not show as a positive OPK)? makes me realise why Drs say don't rely on them!

Wow that really is confusing but really intriguing at the same time. If you got a positive test on CD16 then conception must have happened on CD8 at the earliest, right? Because the test wouldn't pick it up otherwise.

Could you have ovulated twice? First when you were successful at conception and then again following the OPK results. Does that sort of thing happen?

None of it really matters as you got the best result possible but it's super interesting anyway

Supposed to be entering my FW today. No sign of EWM but I'm not gonna wait for it now that all bets are off!

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, when I conceived DD and had an early ultrasound where they measured the size and gave due date, the due date was about 4-5 days earlier than I had expected. I was told that ultrasound measurements are very accurate at that early on. But based on the OPK results at the time I had ovulated 4 days after the date on which conception supposedly happened...

@chipsfordinner bet you couldn’t concentrate at work!!!

Hmmm not sure about ovulating twice. That's interesting about your scan dates and OPKs, definitely questioning their value now!

Fingers crossed for a lucky cycle for you.

Totally explorers! Although probably wasn't noticeable as I'm generally a bit of a sleep deprived mess anyway.

How’s everyone doing this weekend? Hopefully you’re busy @Sassenach84 . How are you getting on @Chipsfordinneragain? Feeling well?

I have caved and bought OPKs. I’d promised myself I wouldn’t do that till next month, and it seems particularly bonkers as several of you have had results that don’t make sense it seems . Maybe it’ll help. I don’t feel like this’ll be my month, but maybe May will be lucky.

@Explorers10, any update on your situation? I hope your doctor is being helpful.