How late were you?

[Fish2010]

So I've already posted about myself on a different thread but I was just wondering...
How late was AF when you got your bfp?

I've seen a few people in the last few days say they were getting negatives up until 17/18/19 days late. No idea if it's a coincidence that I've seen so many mention it in a short space of time or if it actually is more common than I realised.

Yes, I'm probably just clutching at straws and hoping I'm still in with a chance 🙄

People who don't get positives until 2/3 weeks after af was due ovulated later than they normally do. It means af would have been late if they hadn't become pregnant that cycle.

Tests are crazy sensitive these days but require implantation to have taken place. This happens 6-12 days after ovulation. Ovulate late? Implantation still happens 6-12 days later.

Got a positive opk and then af didn't arrive and no positive over two weeks later? You didn't ovulate after the positive opk. Sometimes bodies gear up for ovulation with a surge of lutenising hormone (what opks detect) but then you don't ovulate. Your body may attempt ovulating a few days later. But that means af would arrive the same number of days late(r) (if not pregnant).

I didn't get my BFP until 9 days after AF was due xx

It took me a while to test positive but couple of weeks were added to my due date with my last one. So I would advise you to continue on dtd even after the supposedly ovulated date. However, we are all different and sometimes for some women it won't show positive for a while

As pp said, Tests are so sensitive now it's very rare to not get a positive if you are pregnant and implantation has occurred. It's also not possible to say with certainty you ovulated just because you had a positive OPK or ewcm so it's more likely such a late bfp is because of later ovulation.

It's possible to be pregnant and not know for a couple of weeks (or more) if there are no symptoms so you don't test or are using faulty/unreliable tests. some HPTs detect as low as 10mIU/ml, and at 4 weeks of pregnancy (so 2 weeks after ovulation, or around period due date) the expected levels of hug for a pregnant woman are between 5-426mIU/ml, by 5 weeks the lower expected level is 18mIU/ml so unlikely a reliable test would miss it.

Op, I'm not trying to bring you down and I've spent many hours agonising over this stuff too. do check the sensitivity of the tests you are using as the higher the sensitivity the more hcg is needed for a positive result. Amazon or eBay are great for the super sensitive cheapies!

Oh I've tried pretty much one of every test. Definitely accepting (through gritted teeth) that I either ovulated (extremely) late or not at all this month.

I'm just going to assume I didn't ovulate at all (weird that I'm so late on the one month I decide not to track at all!) and try again.

I just thought it was odd that I'd seen so many posts of people getting such late positives. Probably just because it's on my kind so I'm noticing it more

I got a faint line 4days before af, when af was due the test was a strong positive x