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BFP for OPK!!!
I just need to tell someone who might just understand where I’m coming from. I have PCOS and I had a MC this past summer. I have just gotten my first BFP on my OPK! This is my third month after my MC and my last cycle I couldn’t get a BFP on my OPK if my life depended on it. And the great thing about this I didn’t use Clomid. Sorry if this sounds like bragging but I’m so excited!
Hi i would say that the day after you got your Positive OPK would be your O day. I can not be positive on this thou! Here is what I found when I googled it!
When you are using ovulation prediction kits (or devices that measure luteinizing hormone), you can usually expect ovulation to occur the day after your first positive result. This is because (LH) luteinizing hormone, the hormone measured by OPKs and the hormone responsible for triggering the rupture of the ovarian sac, typically surges the day before ovulation. In some cases, however, you will see ovulation on the same day as the positive result. There are a few factors that can help explain how this happens.
First, remember that when you are reading your OPK, you are seeing a snapshot of your LH surge. You do not really know whether you are seeing the beginning, peak or trail of the surge. What you know is that your LH is at a level that is detectable as a surge by the kit. It may have started to surge soon after your test the previous day and be starting to trail, or it may be just starting to surge. In a case where it looks on the chart as if ovulation occurred the same day as the surge, here is what may have happened:
1. LH started to surge during the night or early in the morning and was detected by your OPK in the early afternoon.
2. Ovulation occurred sometime in the evening or night, several hours after your positive OPK, possibly several hours longer than when the LH actually started to surge.
3. Your temperature is up in the morning, indicating ovulation for the previous day, the same day as the positive OPK, even though many hours have elapsed between the LH surge and your temperature rise.
When you are using ovulation prediction kits (or devices that measure luteinizing hormone), you can usually expect ovulation to occur the day after your first positive result. This is because (LH) luteinizing hormone, the hormone measured by OPKs and the hormone responsible for triggering the rupture of the ovarian sac, typically surges the day before ovulation. In some cases, however, you will see ovulation on the same day as the positive result. There are a few factors that can help explain how this happens.
First, remember that when you are reading your OPK, you are seeing a snapshot of your LH surge. You do not really know whether you are seeing the beginning, peak or trail of the surge. What you know is that your LH is at a level that is detectable as a surge by the kit. It may have started to surge soon after your test the previous day and be starting to trail, or it may be just starting to surge. In a case where it looks on the chart as if ovulation occurred the same day as the surge, here is what may have happened:
1. LH started to surge during the night or early in the morning and was detected by your OPK in the early afternoon.
2. Ovulation occurred sometime in the evening or night, several hours after your positive OPK, possibly several hours longer than when the LH actually started to surge.
3. Your temperature is up in the morning, indicating ovulation for the previous day, the same day as the positive OPK, even though many hours have elapsed between the LH surge and your temperature rise.
Yeahh, I'm using Answer with the lines and all. Just today it looked like the test line is not so dark, but still darker than the control line. I'm thinking about starting my Prometrium here soon. It will both kick my eggs into shape and force a period or it will help increase my progesterone hormones for a pregnancy. But, then I have no idea when to htp because of the constant positive in my OPK. What day will be 1po?
OPK's and PCOS could give you a false positive!
I have never had a positive OPK and I am hoping to this month! I use the Clear \Blue Easy Digital ones with the smiley face or no smiley face so there is no confusion with (is this line as dark or darker then the control line)
I have never had a positive OPK and I am hoping to this month! I use the Clear \Blue Easy Digital ones with the smiley face or no smiley face so there is no confusion with (is this line as dark or darker then the control line)
Is it weird that my OPK has been postive now for 5 days in a row? I just read from http://www.peeonastick.com/opkfaq.html#4: "It is also possible that your body is "gearing up" to ovulate, and you have an LH surge-- and then, for some reason (such as stress, illness, travel, or random fluke), your body fails to release an egg . . . then tries, tries again ASAP with another, or overlapping, surge. If you see a positive OPK for longer than 3 consecutive days, your egg is probably just having a little trouble getting out of the starting gate."
Boy I hope a dang egg releases. This whole PCOS thing is annoying.
Boy I hope a dang egg releases. This whole PCOS thing is annoying.
Sorry to hear about you MC and Congrats on your Positive OPK! Your not bragging at all, your excited and this is the perfect place to share your excitement!
I also have PCOS and this is my 3rd month ttc and will be using clomid again. I am currently taking Provera to get AF and just started Metformin, then clomid CD 5-9
I don't know if you are on metformin or even heard of it! Metformin is the Miracle Drug for Women with PCOS!
http:// www.suite101.com/ content/ metformin-has-many-benefits-for-women-with-pcos-a146402
(copy and paste but take out the spaces!)
I also have PCOS and this is my 3rd month ttc and will be using clomid again. I am currently taking Provera to get AF and just started Metformin, then clomid CD 5-9
I don't know if you are on metformin or even heard of it! Metformin is the Miracle Drug for Women with PCOS!
http:// www.suite101.com/ content/ metformin-has-many-benefits-for-women-with-pcos-a146402
(copy and paste but take out the spaces!)
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