Hi everyone. I'm driving myself mad here.
Can I ask for opinions on when my ovulation day was based on this chart? Going on feeling (sex drive, mittelschmerz) I would say it was CD17. This was also the day I got a positive LH test - or at least what I think was positive. It wasn't quite as dark as the control and certainly not a line-stealer. This is my first cycle TTC and I've never used LH strips before. However, it was definitely darker than the other LH tests this cycle and then dropped off from that point. I'm assuming it was accurate and that I ovulated because of the temp shift afterwards.
I understand that a positive LH test probably puts me ovulating at CD18 (i.e. 24 hours later), and so does the temp shift. Do you think that's accurate?
My other question is the likelihood that the dip at CD26 (8/9DPO) is an implantation dip. This is the day I started getting prickly and stabbing pains on both sides (but not at the same time), nausea and a bad headache, which went into the next day (9/10DPO). I've been testing negative since 8DPO though so I don't understand how I could be having 'implantation symptoms' and apparently generally pregnancy symptoms (nausea) when I can't be producing enough hCG yet? It's 10 or 11DPO now, still negative, and I've got no idea what's going on. Could it be not enough time yet? I've moved from just worrying I'm not pregnant after all to 'wtf is happening to my body' (bolstered by a history of an ovarian cyst that torsioned and cost me a fallopian tube, so I'm worried about the symptoms I'm getting as they aren't as bad as when that happened, but there are similarities).