What do you think of this?

Lauren23 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-03-2006, 02:12 PM

I am not sure what is going on..I tested w/ an opk yesterday and today and it was positive both times..yesterday it was the same color as the control, today the test line was darker than the control. Yesterday and today I also got full ferning on my saliva microscope. I noticed that my nipples are really painful, and I have some achey feelings in my lower back and around my ovaries..do you think I will ovulate today or tomorrow? How long does it usually take once the opk is positive? Also, if we dtd yesterday but dh pulled out is that pretty reliable? We usually use condoms or a diapragm but didn't yesterday..

http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/11a148

Star622 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-03-2006, 04:05 PM

I think you are cutting it pretty close esp. this cycle which has been so crazy. Healthy sperm in the best conditions can live up to 5 days. I'm not trying to worry you, but since you are learning your cycles etc. I don't think charting etc. is the safest protection right now.

I really think that by the time you are getting a close to +opk, it's too close. I would highly recommend getting the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler. It's an excellent book and it does discuss natural birth control via charting etc.

And yeah, I'm kicking myself for the 3 years of bcps and double protection for the first couple of years because we wanted to wait 3 years to TTC.

If I had only known.... 4 years later.

If I had read the book, I probably could have saved a lot of money then.

Lauren23 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-03-2006, 04:47 PM

Thanks! I have actually bought the book, I just haven't read the whole thing yet..someone else recommended it to me. The reason I want to chart and what not is to learn my cycles and see if they are regular, etc so that when we want to conceive I know what is going on. Now, I have a short LP and I only found that out due to charting, so if I had waited to chart until we wanted to get pregnant, it might have taken a while..I also found out that I am hypothyroid so that plays a role in my cycles, too. I think that from now on I will use condoms from af until I know I o'ed but since I was having so many positive/negatives, egcm, then creamy, open then closed cp, I really thought this cycle was going to be annovulatory..maybe it will be, we'll see.