Not dehydrating when OPK’ing?!

[Heretochill]

Seriously, how do you test ovulation and manage to stay hydrated?

I normally drink around 3l water a day (between water and hot drinks), and I’m using the easy @ home OPKs which say to test between 11:00-20:00, so not first wee of the day.

I’m in my fertile window so have moved to testing twice a day in order to ‘catch the egg’, but my evening tests are much lighter, which I’m assuming is due to my liquid intake?!

I’ve reduced it to under 2l to see if it helps get a stronger reading and holding my pee, but no such luck!

Appreciate it may be down to me not ovulating yet 😁 but photos of progression on others shows the line getting progressively darker until they hit peak - mine haven’t got above 0.23, and are normally 0.11, if not unreadable 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh to be back in those naive days of just have sex between periods! Don’t get me started on tracking temperature - science is not my subject 😂

I just accept I will be thirsty around ovulation 🤣

I've been using OPKs for a while so I kinda know what is positive for me. I never get over 0.8 on premom but I know I do ovulate.

Bit pricey but clear blue with the flashing faces work for me since they are done with FMU. Although a flashing face telling you when to have sex is a bit creepy 🤣 perhaps the solid smiley should just be a winky face 😉

I'm also starting to accept that I know roughly when I ovulate using the clear blue and other signs so do I really need to see that OPK getting darker? Yes I do

I'm very firmly team-temping. My friend told me about it and I was so bamboozled but now I rave about it.

Hey @KatySp , thank god I’m not the only one!! I hadn’t realised the Clear Blue ones were FMU, definitely getting them for next month!! Really appreciate you letting me know - will work myself up to letting a smiley inform sexy time 😂

I wake up at a different time each day - can be between 6 and 10, I always do it first thing but the chart is all over the place! May have to accept dehydration and unnecessary 6am starts as well next month - lovely!

Second bit re: temperature!

You could temp at 6am and then go back to sleep or there is a BBT adjuster tool online which adjusts your BBT to when you usually take it if you wake up earlier or later. Not sure how accurate it is though.

It's become second nature to me, the other night I was in bed at 10 and randomly woke up about 12 and I did my temperature because I was so confused as to what time it actually was 🤣

I'm starting to think all this OPK and temping is just rubbish. If you know roughly when you ovulate and have sex around those times and a few times after something's gotta stick. Doing OPKs or taking my temperature isn't going to get me pregnant.

I never had an issue with OPK cheapy strips and doing them with fmu. Got distinct positives on early morning strips.

I always did them like that, and increased to 2/3 tests a day when I roughly knew that ovulation was near.

Thanks for all your tips - progression is finally here! Still a low, but 0.37 - which is way higher than any others so far. Ovulation is predicted for Thursday 🤞🤞