Question About LH Surge - help please

[BabyBratt]

I do not normally start threads but I hope someone can help;

I have been using ovuluation predictor kits each month and have been able to detect my LH surge with no problem. However, everything I have read says that ovulation should take place 24 to 36 hours after your LH surge. But, based on my temperature charts, I don't seem to ovulate until several days later (usually 5 or 6 days). This does not seem normal. I can't seem to find any mention of it in any of the material I've read.

A person can have more than one LH surge every month and such surges are not automatically followed by ovulation.

The problem with using opk's is that these assume that women only have one LH surge every month and that surge is immediately followed by ovulation. As you have seen from the first sentence this is not true.
Also if you are one of many women who produce higher levels of LH the kit will read that excess.

Ovulation is not an exact science and can occur earlier, later or not at all in any given cycle.

The surest way to know whether ovulation has occured in a particular cycle is to have blood tests done.

Thank you for the information, I am have been ttc for 9 cycles now and my doc wants me to try for another 2 before he sends me for blood tests on day 3 and 21 so I guess I will find out what is going on then.

Thanks agains