Hi. I have used easy at home opks for ages now and have noticed that I never get a positive line. However I always stop them once I get passed around CD20 thinking I don't ovulate.
Last month I decided to spend a little more on the CB advanced tests to see if I can catch ovulation that way. I opened the pack on CD20 which is when they were delivered and got a blank circle (which is normal from what I have read), then the following day in the evening of CD21 I got a static smiley. I only took it in the evening as that is the time I have always noticed I get a darker line on the opks.
Fast forward a week and a full week of right hand side ovary pain I decided to take an easy at home opk yesterday at 6:30pm which was dark and my app gave me a positive, changed my peak to today and moved my ovulation day on to what will be CD29.
I am so confused right now. I'm wondering if I should try opks for a full month to see if I ovulate much later than I thought I did and we have been missing it every month.
Anybody else ovulate late and been successful in a bfp and how late did you ovulate?
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Anybody else ovulate late and get a bfp? And opk questions..
Khanny · 01/06/2023 09:55
falsepositivenervous · 01/06/2023 10:24
I would recommend also temping, as it is also a way to confirm if you've ovulated. I would also do the OPKs for a month straight if I were you just so I had a bit of baseline info. Are you getting EWCM at all/when are you getting it?
bunnyx · 01/06/2023 10:26
How long do your cycles tend to be? X
Daisydreaming1 · 01/06/2023 10:27
How long are your cycles? I used to ovulate on cd21 and managed to ovulate regularly on cd15 with acupuncture.how long is your luteal phase? Temping might give you a better insight too
Cindy1802 · 01/06/2023 10:30
Yes you need to keep testing if you want to understand when you ovulate. I ovulate on circa CD21 and wouldn't have had a clue if I didn't keep testing - I was losing hope after day 16/17 as that is later than the average.
But sure enough, CD20-22 is normal for me, and I have conceived 3 babies using OPKs.
Cindy1802 · 01/06/2023 10:47
If your cycles are 40 days, you could be ovulating as late at CD30. I tend to have 10day luteal phases which is on the short side, but absolutely fine.
Cindy1802 · 01/06/2023 10:51
Also, I don't temp as im also a rubbish sleeper. I have always used clearblue when trying to learn about my cycle - albeit they are expensive, but I know they work for me, and only had to use them a few times to get a good understanding of my cycle - you don't need to use them forever.
Also, if your cycles are that long, you don't need to start tracking from the very start of your cycle (you'd be using a lot of tests!) For a 30-32 day cycle I normally start testing around CD 11. If you use clearblue, the instructions will tell you when to start testing based on your cycle length.
TheSweetestHalleluja · 01/06/2023 20:18
Yes, I ovulated on day 26 and got my bfp two weeks later!
SnookyPook · 02/06/2023 10:26
@Khanny if I had a 40 day cycle I'd be expecting to ovulate around cd26 as my luteal phase is always 14 days. So you absolutely could have been missing it. I would do as the others have said and keep testing throughout the month to get a better idea. As far as conceiving, ovulation later shouldn't affect that at all, as long as you DTD in your fertile window. Good luck! 😊
Cindy1802 · 05/06/2023 13:06
I would say you are in with a chance - healthy sperm can live inside you for 5 days.
I'm not sure how natural cycles work as I tend to use CB - but when you say confirmed ovulation, do you actually mean confirmed ovulation or confirmed fertile peak? I ovulated about 30 hours after I tested positive for my peak. I know this because I get extreme and painful bloating when I ovulate. I'm wondering if what you are feeling now is ovulation pain but it seems very late if you got your peak a few days ago... otherwise I'm not sure what the pain could be.
Hankthehonk · 06/06/2023 04:45
Good luck @Khanny - I know you're using natural cycles but you might also want to use premom to log the images of your opks. You take a photo and it detects the level then stores and charts them. I use the free version.
I've had a long weird cycle this month but just kept testing and caught lh peak on cd39.
I'm also someone who wakes in the night so I'm struggling with temping, it's frustrating because I know bbt is really important. I keep doing it when I wake anyway eg I just woke at 3.30am and I recently read on another thread here about a bbt adjustment calculator if your wake at a very different time than usual. It just adjusted my 3.30am reading from 36.38 to 36.71.
I'm trying to gauge the pattern of my bbts rather than getting caught up on specific numbers as I don't really trust my data.
Hoping you get your bfp this month!
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Hankthehonk · 06/06/2023 10:12
@Khanny
The calculator I found just by googling, it's a different site. Here's the link (not sure if MN will let me post this but I'll try - it's on mymonthlycycles https://www.mymonthlycycles.com/bbtadjust.jsp)
I feel exactly the same, unconvinced by my temps. I've been temping for 2 months now and literally just got my coverline today which feels like an achievement! I also have a samsung watch that tracks my wrist temperature at night but currently it's saying my temps are going down while they're going up with my oral thermometer readings. No idea what that's about, I have read that the wrist temp can be more impacted by room temp etc and we've got had a fan on the last two nights so maybe that's affecting it....argh it's so much to think about.
I've just ordered Proov progesterone tests so that I can take one of those to check if I've ovulated as well, since BBT is proving tricky for me.
Hankthehonk · 06/06/2023 11:00
@Khanny I understand the obsession, it has been the same for me since I had a miscarriage in March. Being pregnant for 8 weeks made my desire for another child all consuming, and I think I've transferred my emotions about the loss onto obsessing over tracking everything. We are very lucky and grateful to have one daughter already who is almost 3. It took a year to get pregnant with her, but most of that I wasn't having periods or ovulating at all after coming off the pill which was stressful in a different way.
I'm so sorry you feel like time is running out, as I'm sure you've seen there are plenty of success stories of older women having babies (I'm not sure your age) and there's every reason to be optimistic it will happen for you too, I'm sure.
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