Don't usually post here, but my chart is confusing me! Updated with some OPK pics!

AlanaIris · #1 October 8th, 2009, 09:12 AM

Hi ladies, usually I stay on the TTC board, but my temps have me confused and I was wondering if anyone has any input? I have been taking OPKs since CD9 and have yet to get a positive or anything close to it, really. And I've been having Wet and EW CM since CD8. I usually don't have EWCM, usually just wet CM, and not very much of it, but this cycle I have LOADS of fertile CM! My temps have been all over the place, but that could be due to all the traveling I did in the last week. I live in SC where it's still hot, drove to PA where the weather keeps changing and stopped in VA for one night each way. FF is putting my O date as CD10, making me 3DPO today. I really hope this isn't the case since that would totally put me out for the month since DH and I didn't BD at all until yesterday! I really hope it's just wacky temps...what do you think?

AngelM82 · #2 October 8th, 2009, 09:20 AM

I am not the biggest expert on charts or when is normalish for O to happen but CD10 seems earlier than I normally see when I'm stalking other people's charts..

It would be a bummer since you could have missed it but really, if your still having the fertile CM and if your temps keep heading in the same direction than I could see it maybe moving your crosshairs to a few days later. Gosh I just have to say that it would be amazing to O so early! I think you could have a couple of cycles during one of mine.. Lucky duck!

CandaceDianne · #3 October 8th, 2009, 09:58 AM

I dont think you have O'd, especially since you are still having fertile CM. I would keep BDing, because it looks like you may soon. Also, keep testing with your OPKs. Last cycle you O'd on CD21, so it would be amazing if you O'd THIS early.

GL!!!

Coley · #4 October 8th, 2009, 10:38 AM

I think you are seeing a fluctuation in your temps, which can happen. The traveling in and out of different weather patterns could have something to do with it... stranger things have happened. FF sometimes jumps the gun... you're not the only girl I've read about this happening to.

Definitely keep going with the OPK's and keep bd'ing as long as you've got fertile cm. I know the first month my body made it's own ewcm, it happened really early in my cycle too. Like on CD 7!! Make sure you take advantage of it!!

Best of Luck to you and we'd love it if you KUP on how your cycle turns out!!

AlanaIris · #5 October 8th, 2009, 11:22 AM

Thanks everyone, I'm really hoping that I haven't O'd yet. I've still been using OPKs twice a day. I had some Clear Blue OPKs, but not the digi ones (the only thing the grocery store had) and those are confusing! But, I also bought the 20 pack of answer OPKs the day after because I didn't trust the blue dye tests. But the CB ones look positive, though the test line is really thin, it's still dark. But on the answer ones it's nowhere near positive. I've never used the Answer 20pack. I usually use the first response 7 pack or the answer 7 pack. I wonder if that has anything to do with it...

I think the reason I O'd so late last cycle was because it was after my D&C. When I got my BFP in July I O'd on CD15, so that's not early, but it's not late, either. IDK, I just reallllly hope that I see a nice big positive OPK in the next few days!

Admin-pattyandthemoos · #6 October 8th, 2009, 11:57 AM

I agree with the other ladies. I can see why FF has marked you as ovulating but since you are still having fertile cm and your o date is really early I would consider yourself still fertile until your cm dries up. Your temps may go back down and you may see a clearer shift later. I think you will know more in a few days.

Coley · #7 October 8th, 2009, 12:12 PM

If you've got a camera.... we'd loooove to see pics of your OPKs!!

AlanaIris · #8 October 8th, 2009, 02:07 PM

You know, I was just thinking of taking some pics and then I saw your post.

These are from this morning...10am, both tests were dipped in the same urine. The blue test looks +...doesn't it?

This is from this afternoon...4pm. Definitely a lot lighter than this mornings test... And I ran out of the blue ones, so I just used one of these.

And all of the previous tests I didn't keep since I was at my parents' house/hotel.

AngelM82 · #9 October 8th, 2009, 04:17 PM

AlanaIris, I posted this morning asking if anyone has tried Soy Isoflavones and I just saw on your chart that you did this cycle. Would you mind sharing your experience on them? I bought them and plan to start tonight. Thank so much!

Admin-pattyandthemoos · #10 October 8th, 2009, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by AlanaIris

You know, I was just thinking of taking some pics and then I saw your post.

These are from this morning...10am, both tests were dipped in the same urine. The blue test looks +...doesn't it?

This is from this afternoon...4pm. Definitely a lot lighter than this mornings test... And I ran out of the blue ones, so I just used one of these.

And all of the previous tests I didn't keep since I was at my parents' house/hotel.

Honestly, I think the blue test looks negative. It looks very close to a positive but it is slightly lighter. I would keep testing.

AlanaIris · #11 October 8th, 2009, 06:10 PM

Thanks, Patty. In the pictures the lines look more faint than they are in person. Not the blue dye one, but the pink ones. I am confused as to why I would get one that's so close to being positive with one brand and then using the same urine, get such a light line on the other?? I wonder if it's just the type of OPKs? They are the Answer 20 pack... I just took another of the same pink ones and there was hardly a line...
It's so confusing! lol. I guess if FF doesn't change anything according to my temps in the next few days I'm just going to have to hope for the best. I am having some O pains today and I'm still having EWCM, so DH and I will just keep BDing!

AngelM82 · #12 October 8th, 2009, 06:20 PM

Alana, I have the Answer brand ones also.. Mainly because so many come in one package. But last time I tried them I never got a + with them and havent heard very good things about them, so its kind of a bummer. I was hoping to have better luck with them this cycle and got the smily face ones so I could at least confirm if I got one that looked close.

jenine · #13 October 9th, 2009, 08:17 AM

That blue OPK test is annoying because it looks to me like the test line wasn't put on correctly...it didn't react all the way through. I don't think you O'd yet either although your temps are a little confusing, but I would assume no O yet until you see something more definitive on your OPK and no more fertile CM. Hope you get a nice clear pattern soon!