not sure????

hmmmm... i am quite new to all of this.  my husband and i have been TTC for 3 cycles now, and though i am just sort of beginning to understand the tracking and paying attention to EVERY blessed symptom and then some, i am afraid i might just be fooling myself.  normally i ovulate the same time every month, and i always feel ovulation pains.  i felt them 3 days earlier than i thought i would.... i took a home ov. test that night and there was no LH surge detected, but i still felt the pain ( also earlier in the day i had a sudden sharp pain in my ovary that literally made me stop in my tracks, but lasted only seconds, i had never felt a pain like that before)  we BD the day before i felt the O pain, the day after, and last night.  NOW the LH surge is detected, but i feel no O pain.  am i crazy, or just freaking myself out?

[alaysha]

LH surge detects a rise in the hormone level which means you've ovulated... sperm can survive for 5 days so I say that you BD for a couple days before you actually O'd might actually make your chances higher since the egg only survives for a 24 hours period.

[gibbsuz]

oh, i thought the LH surge was detected before ovulation... so when i felt the pain i was ovulating?

[alaysha]

The LH surge is produced when you are about to/are ovulating... it just charts the rise in the hormone level. If you got a positive a couple of days after you "thought" you ovulated you should be fine because it is still in the desired time period that you had sex.

[gibbsuz]

thank you :)

[markysmom]

THe LH surge acutally happens 24/48 hours BEFORE you ovulate.  When you see the surge you shoudl BD that day and the following 3 days..plus a few days before-- or every other is recommended also.
Sometimes the Surge is seen 72 hours befor but that is very rare..This is why some people get 2-3 days of positive OPKS- they catch the beginning and the end of the surge if they test more than once/daily..(like me -- a POAS aholic)

Hope to help