Almost positive OPKs too early in cycle, not getting actual positive

[blackpinkinyourarea]

I am getting genuinely concerned that Im not actually ovulating. Im currently on Cycle 2.

Bit of background, i had my implant removed at the start of september. Bleeding returned within 11 days. After that bleed, Cycle 1 was 29 days long. Not sure if its relevant but both of those periods were very very short, 1 day and 2 days respectively.

Cycle 1, I got all faint OPKs except for a dark-ish line on an OPK test strip on cycle day 11.

Fast forward to this cycle, i have used OPK strips and also clear blue OPK on CD7 - 8 and both were very negative.
I got a dark-ish line on an OPK strip (didnt test with a clearblue one) yesterday - only cycle day 9!!

I have also been temping and my temp only increased by 0.2 degrees (36.3deg) yesterday so not exactly a spike. Temp this morning is back down to 36.1deg.

This morning i used another opk strip and also a clear blue advanced OPK, and unsurprisingly i got an extremely faint line on the strip and a blank face on the clearblue. Im kicking myself for not using a clearblue yesterday, i held off as didnt want to waste one so early in my cycle :/

I really wanted to track this cycle properly and feel like ive messed up already.
I feel like my body is trying to ovulate but not quite managing it. Also concerned at how early in my cycle its happening too. Any advice

Hi OP,

I have a very similar issue / cycles, cycles all over the place and basically non existent since coming off the injection last year.

To try and help I use an app called Premom, you can take photos of your ovulation tests and it measures them for you - much easier to keep track!

Hope this helps

Also the same. Last depo shot in September last year an haven't had a period since. partner and I had sex 3 weeks ago also in that time frame also. Took early test this afternoon and showed up faint line that disappeared 15 minutes later. Too early to tell maybe? X0

Hello again @blackpinkinyourarea 😊 I'm struggling with opks since getting my implant out too. I had 8 days of flashing smileys on CB but never any peak (or anything remotely dark ish) on the cheap OPK dip tests. I actually ran out of CB tests before I got a peak, carried on with cheapies and just never hit peak. Gave up as Im just getting frustrated. I'm also nearly 3 weeks since having the implant out and no bleed and zero symptoms.

Are you monitoring CM? Any changes there?

@foreverhopeful67 i have the premom app just to plot my BBT as it gives you a graph, didnt realise it could interpret your opks too! thanks for the tip, will definitely look into that! :)
@lisab86 i dont know very much about the depo shot but im guessing you definitely should have had a period by now? have you spoken to your doctor? hope you get some answers soon
@cooperlooper hello again :) i had a small moment of hope this morning with a temperature rise of 0.3 degrees from yesterday (so yesterday dipped to 36.1 and today was 36.4). I took an OPK cheapy strip around 5.30pm today and the line was darker than yesterday but still nowhere near positive. kinda wish it had been as faint as yesterdays as it confuses me when they start getting darker again :/ CM-wise i definitely dont have EWCM but its quite watery which i hope is a good sign!! i am just confused..and frustrated. half of me wants to write this month off and the other just wants to dtd every day and then i know i cant miss ovulation (ASSUMING i bloody well do ovulate aahh). I have all my fingers crossed for you and i hope you get a blazing positive on an OPK soon! I am on a thread on a different forum and a poster had her implant out just a few days before me...and she now has a lovely BFP! So it does happen.

@blackpinkinyourarea well I'm going down to route of DTD every two days until something happens so I'm hoping your idea works! I never noticed any CM changes despite flashing OPKs either but maybe it's cos i don't know what I'm looking for.

It's good that you're tracking your temp, I can imagine you'll start to see trends and patterns too.

Oh that's good news for the other lady, she's been well lucky! Aren't forums like this weird, you feel both jealous and happy for strangers and it's just such a mind fuck 😂 x

@lisab86 seems we’re in exactly the same position! Although by the sounds of things your luck could be improving! May be slightly early but do another test in a few days and keep us updated everything crossed for you!! X