Ovulation kits

[muddaofsuburbia]

TTC for a couple of months. Have a clockwork cycle, so I've been guessing when I Ov, but would like to take the mystery out of it.

Have seen the Ov kits on Medisave which are obviously way cheaper than in the shops. How many do you need? How do you use them? When do you use them?

How many you need depends on how optimistic you are. Expect to use 6-7 in first month of using, and 3-4 in subsequent months. I seem to remember that there are not huge savings from buying in big quantities, so you may want to start small. having said which, I'm a pessimist so have just ordered 40!

First month, you should start quite early - usually around day 10. Do one each day until you ovulate. Once you have two blue stripes of equal intensity, you know you will ovulate within about 24 hours.

In subsequent months you won't need to do as many, because you'll know when you're likely to ovulate (specially with your clockwork cycle).

They're simple to use: you pee into a jar, then use the supplied pipette to put three drops of urine onto the test stick. Then wait five minutes. I find the trickiest bit is getting the right time of day to do the test: you shouldn't do it first thing in the morning, but you shouldn't have peed or drank a lot of fluid in the preceding two hours.

The kits come will full instructions on all this btw.

Thanks for that Hester - sounds tricky, but not as much of a faff as I first thought. I like the idea of narrowing it down to 24 hours - much more civilized

Ask Eyelash where she got hers from - I think she got them quite cheap - and they got me pg twice!

Yes - I found access daignostics brilliant and they delivered within two days. The tests are easy to use and I fell pregnant very easily with them. The link is this . The ovulation and pregnancy test package is great value. Good luck with ttc.

fisil - how are you doing?

thanks to you eyelash I am feeling sick, aching all over and constantly exhausted Thanks again (only took one attempt this time!)

hi yes been trying 4mths 5 ths gonna be now need to be more specific to now

you found out where eyelash got her from?cheap

tc trying too

I got preg first time using them after over a year of trying with my daughter, obv wasnt timing it right. Good luck

hi eyelash thanks for the link should make things a lot easier to predict now

hi fisil congrats filled with more confidence about it now

Thanks Eyelash - I just ordered my preg and ovulation test kits - they are cheaper than Boots. Was worried at the thought of shelling out £10/13 for each preg test. Now i just have to get busy using them!!

If you don't want to shell out money every month on ov kits how about charting? Reading Toni Weschler's book "Taking charge of your fertility" taught me so much and I got pg second month I charted - finally knew my cycle. It does go into details so don't go there if you'd rather not know the ins and outs of down there.