When did I ovulate?

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Hi all hoping someone can help me work out when I ovulated...
My cycle is usually 30-33 days and I've been using both clear blue advanced digital and strip OPK to track, along with my Flo app. I've only used the OPKs to track for the last month.

Clear blue gave me a flashing smiley on CD9 and 10, and moved to a static smiley on CD11. The strip OPK wasn't a clear positive until CD15 where I also had ewcm and a dye stealer on the OPK.

Do we think that CD15 may have been the real ovulation as it seems to fit in with the "typical" timeline, or is clear blue more accurate even without other signs?

Maybe I'm just holding out hope that there is still a possibility to be pregnant this cycle if I ovulated later on!

Any advice would be hugely appreciated xx

You can have 2 peaks, with the 2nd one being the ‘successful’ one. So perhaps the clear blue one caught an earlier rise, then you caught the true peak with the strips? Are you measuring your temperature too? This can be handy to confirm ovulation, as temp rises after ovulation has happened.

@Alkaline182 ahh thank you- there's hope yet as I'd only be 8DPO today if that's the case!

Not tracking temp yet- only on cycle 2 but I might give it a go next cycle as it seems to be the most accurate at finding your peak.. have to do more research as I wouldn't know where to start with it 😂 x

Do you know why there are 2 peaks?
Worried I’ve been taking clearblue as the right one around days 10/11 into cycle but have just had another smiley face now on day 20 which has thrown me completely

Sometimes you have 2 peaks because your body can gear up to ovulate, then it doesn’t quite happen, so a few days later there’s another surge in hormones to try and ovulate again (google will have a better explanation than that!) but apparantly it’s quite common. I don’t know if anyone has a better suggestion but I’d see when your period is now and count back 14 days from that to see when you probably did ovulate, then use that as a guide for next month ☺️

I felt the same as you! I’m on cycle 5 so hardly an expert, each month I’ve tried something new. First month I was just trying to listen to my body as a guide for when I was ovulating, then tried clear blue tests (but never got a smiley), then tried the LH strips on the Premom app, now added temping in! I do find it all very interesting but yeah there’s a lot of research you have to do. I didn’t know I’d need so much info to try and make a baby!

@Alkaline182
Thank you so much- there's so much to think about isn't there!

I work away and flew 12 hours on the day I was meant to ovulate so I wonder if that was why I had a second peak 🤷🏼‍♀️

Deffo will start temping next month on top of tracking ovulation, fingers crossed for both of us that this cycle or next is the one! 🤞🏻🤞🏻

@Debbz9 how long are your cycles normally?

It's so confusing trying to BD at the right time 😬

How long have you been tracking for?

Ah I have heard that going on a long flight/ journey can disrupt ovulation! I’m flying from London to Vietnam on the day before I’m meant to ovulate this month, so will put this theory to the test!