Ovulation predictors

Hi there

Does anyone have any tips for using OPKs? I have had experience with an irregular cycle this year but its come right the last few months, has been between 33 and 35 days which is not great but still becoming regular at that.

So I bought some testers to try this month. According to my cycle I needed to start testing Thursday, so I did, and have tested every day since then. At the moment Im getting a faint test line that is not as dark as the control line, which they say is negative, but in saying that my test line was darker today than it has been the other days. According to my cycle it would be today or Monday that I would likely ovulate.

But around Tuesday or so I felt some cramping type pain and have had changes which lead me to think I ovulated around then, so now Im thinking Im testing too late. Have just been BDing every day to be sure, lol.

Im just totally confused and don't really know when it's happening or if I might have missed it. Im going to keep testing until Tuesday as planned and see what happens.

But yeah, I feel like Im doing this all wrong. Any advice, experiences? How accurate are they usually? Is it possible to just miss the surge?

Thanks for any help... just really confused at the moment

Hey lisa, i have found OPk's quite useful but also very confusing too. I have only used them for 2 cycles, the first i did 1 every day from CD 10, at 5.30pm when I got home from work and got my positive CD15 easy! this cycle i started CD 10 but was impaitient and peed on them twice a day, once at about 2pm then again 4 hours later as i kept getting the faint line. This got very frustrating as the line did not get darker the second time round in a day so i gave up and ended up doing it once a day at 5.30pm like last cycle and positive CD15 again.

So sorry about the rant but my advice is choose 1 time a day to pee on them, and just do it once a day and just keep going as you will get that Dark line!!!

I got cramps and a faint line and thought i must be oving so kept testing, but the cramps stopped and then i got my positive OPK about 3 days later!

Hope that makes sense

Edited by Birdie

I am using OPK's for the first time this cycle, I am on CD8, I should ovulate on CD13... CD7 & CD8 I've had very faint 2nd lines. I am not relying on OPK's to pinpoint ovulation day, because I know that my CM is more reliable (for me anyway)

Yeah I have no idea, I have found them very confusing.

I used them for 6 days this month, and the most I got was a faint line almost as much as the control line, but not quite.

I'm not sure I tested on the right days, as I didn't buy enough and ran out so couldn't keep going. I only tested once a day at 5:30 pm.

My cycle is a bit irregular, tends to be between 30 and 35 days long so it's really hard for me to pinpoint the right days anyway short of buying heaps of tests and testing all the time.

Has anyone tried ovulation microscopes? I know they are more expensive but might be easier for someone like me in the long run?

Thanks

Ive got a question. You know how there are the blue and the green ovulation tests

What are the differences with the two