Ok, this is ridiculous. I SWEAR I have always had pretty close to a 30 day cycle...so I got nervous when I didn't O until day 27 or so (based on my LH surge being caught with OPK on morning of day 26). Then I was nauseous, cramping, diahrrea, headache, tired on day 34. Crampy as well from day 33-35. On Day 37 I tested and got a BFN. Had a horrible headache all day (I never get headaches-and the cramps were different than my usual cramps and there wasn't really any bloating). The evening of day 37 I had brown spotting, but only noticeable when wiping. This continued for day 38 but AF didn't officially arrive and it was brown not red. It was like what I get a few hours before AF comes in full force, I never get this spotting for more than a day...usually just hours. I put a tampon in just to see what I could catch on it (I know TMI) it was just brown...and then when I tried later I could see a little red, but hardly anything. Woke up this morning...still just minimal brown on the tampon I had in last night....so now I am on Day 39....took the tampon out because it clearly isn't needed yet. I tested again and got another BFN. I don't know what is going on with AF??? I guess technically I am only about 12dpo so maybe I am testing too early, or maybe AF will really come? I have always had really heavy and really long periods so I have always thought that I might be one of those people who gets AF when pregnant....in part also because my dr had at one point tried to do continuous pill packs for 3mos at a time (rather than having the break of sugar pills) so I would have a period every 3 months (due to shoulder pain that is brought on with TOM).....no matter how high she went on the hormone levels in the pills, my body insisted on having a period. All of the other symptoms I was having seem to be gone now, and my breasts seem fine....but I really don't usually get this spotting....what do you guys think? We really put our effort into it this month and our timing seems good:
Day12-BD
Day14-BD
Day 16-BD
Day 19-BD
Day 20-BD
Day 22-BD
Day 24-BD
Day 25-BD 2x
Day 26-BD 2x +OPK with FMU
Day 27-BD
Day 28-BD

Christ I was exhausted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But right now I either want a BFP or I want AF to get here so I can mark it cycle day 1 and we can gear up to try again!

Hold out some hope mama.. YOU had a good chance of catching that egg!!

Hope you know one way or another real soon!

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I don't know what importance this is but I don't think you are supposed to use FMU for ouvlation tests... let me see if I can find the instructions...

I can't find anything that says why yet, but I'll look.

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From what I've read, the LH surge (what makes the OPK +), usually starts in the morning for most women, and it takes about 4 hours from the time it hits your blood until it enters your urine, so OPKs are most useful in the afternoon (I think the "ideal" time is around 2.

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yes, opks should be used in the afternoon. www.peeonastick.com has some great opk FAQ

My only thought is that perhaps this was an annovulatory cycle. When cycles are long, and opks are showing positive at irregular times, sumtimes there is no ovulation. Only temping or progesterone bloodwork can show that someone has definitely ovulated. Otherwise, the body can gear up to o, sumtimes multiple times, and then... no ovulation. Hopefully this isnt the case with you and you just had a late o cycle.... your bd timing was GREAT. You guys must be exhausted!

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The reason you are supposed to use them in the afternoon is because LH synthesizes in the afternoon so if you only use FMU you might miss the surge because you could test, get a -, then it could surge, and by next morning it could be a - again. I tried testing in the afternoon, but you have to hold your urine for 4 hours which wasn't working for me, so I went back to FMU-which you can use, you just risk missing it if you are unaware of other signs like CM. This was the first month I used the OPK just to confirm that i was analyzing my CM correctly and I found that the surge corresponded exactly to my CM so I'm positive of when I O'd. unfortunately though, AF decided to show herself in true form last night, so I'm back to the waiting to O stage. I'm going to try temping again this month, but it doesn't usually work for me since I am up so often during the night that it doesn't always being reliable.