Opk test could I be pregnant or implantion be occurring?…

[CraftyFish]

Is this dark for 6dpo??

first pic is my opk test 6dpo (today)

second pic is opk test i took 4days before I found out about my son 2.5 yr ago

You can’t use an ovulation test to predict pregnancy. Everyone has varying amounts of LH in their urine over the month. You will always get two lines on an ovulation test. Some women get a kind of surge as they approach their period.

While some women get a very positive ovulation test (which your tests are not) when pregnant, they are not MORE sensitive than pregnancy tests. If they were, they’d be sold as pregnancy tests. If you don’t have enough HCG in your urine for a pregnancy test designed for that reason to pick it up, then an ovulation test looking for a different hormone will not pick it up. And at 6dpo you will hardly have any HCG in your system. Wait at least 4-6 more days then test again with an actual pregnancy test.

I disagree @Yetegs

here are two pregnancy tests and two ovulation tests each taken on the same day, I found ovulation tests consistently more sensitive than pregnancy tests at detecting the hcg in my current pregnancy

But yours are both positive. The pregnancy test is positive. I didn’t disagree that an ovulation test will often show dark positive if you are actually pregnant and it is showing positive on a HCG pregnancy test. My point is an ovulation test always has a line no matter what point in the month you take it. Some women get a surge and have an almost positive ovulation test close to their period. That isn’t detecting pregnancy. That’s just natural. So an ovulation test will always be “darker” than a pregnancy test in your situation. Because it was darker to start with even if you weren’t pregnant. The HCG test however would have been stark white if you were not pregnant. The HCG test will ONLY react to the pregnancy hormone HCG. Ovulation tests are reacting to LH at all times and IF you are pregnant then it can react to it as well. That’s what I mean. So the OP showing a negative ovulation test (which it is because the line is not darker than the control line) doesn’t mean anything at this point. It will show a line as it is reacting to LH hormone. If the HCG test is negative then there is no HCG to react to then the LH ovulation test cannot be reacting to it either.

In my case the LH test detected the hcg before a pregnancy test did! I tested daily for five weeks and the lh test was always darker than the hcg.

But I just explained why that would always be the case? If you test while not trying to conceive the LH test will always have a line. Sometimes it will be darker than others. But having a negative ovulation test does not mean you are pregnant. A positive ovulation test is where the line is darker than the control line. Anything else is negative. Once you ARE pregnant and your body is producing HCG it’s possible (and happens I totally agree) that an ovulation test will then detect and react to the HCG AS WELL as LH. So the reason an ovulation test is darker than the pregnancy test is because it was always dark to begin with. You have nothing to compare it to what your ovulation tests would have looked like that month if you had not been pregnant.

The OPs tests are currently negative ovulation tests. If she is pregnant then yes they may well continue to get darker. But if that happens a HCG test will also start becoming positive. Had she not been pregnant, the ovulation test would have still had a line and the pregnancy test would not.

So to reiterate. The reason an ovulation test looks darker than the HCG test when you pregnant is because it has a line to start with. The HCG test is starting from pure white. Because it is ONLY detecting HCG. The LH is test detecting BOTH LH and HCG if you are pregnant. So yes an ovulation CAN show positive IF you are pregnant. But it is not BETTER at detecting HCG than a HCG test.

I have years of ovulation tests to compare it to though and I’m trying to explain to you that an lh test is absolutely more sensitive to hcg than a pregnancy test. Mine were not detecting lh they were detecting pregnancy.

I’ve also been pregnant eleven times so have a good data set from which I’ve drawn my conclusion that lh tests are more sensitive to hcg than pregnancy tests

Ok then. I guess you could be looking at becoming really rich if you start a company to sell them as pregnancy tests. They all must be missing trick! You’ll be loaded!

You’re so kind 😂😂

good luck op 💚 all the ttc love and positive vibes to you xxx