Thanks soulmate, I shall try to hold off going to the toilet for longer next month and see what happens!
I have tried the Confirm brand, but only had negative results. Because there are only 4 tests in the pack, I thought they were too expensive, so I switched to LC.
However, a friend of mine used the Confirm OPK successfully and had a "true" BFP on the Confirm HPT.
I know what you mean though about being unsure - I would test twice anyway with a BFP, so maybe get another brand as a back up...
If anyone is interested, I had been using the Discover brand OPK-you get 7 in a box but have just bought a pack of 30 from the Lullaby Conceptions website for the same price I paid for the 7. I had been doing the OPK with FMU. I know very naughty but if anything I think the hormone is supposed to be stronger then anyway and I still didn't get a really dark line. I'll try the other brand this cycle (during the day) and let you know how I go. Yeah, what's with the box being so explicit saying the line MUST be as dark or darker than the control. That doesn't always seem to be the case!
Maybe instead of trying with FMU, how about trying instead say at 2pm and then again about 6.30pm or 7pm? All the info I've ever read has said not to use FMU, so maybe it wouldn't give you an accurate result anyhow??
I tested at 2pm and again at about 6.30pm this cycle and noticed a few differences. I got better results with the 6.30pm test than the 2pm test. I also found that I got much clearer results if I stopped fluid consumption at least 2.5 hrs before testing (the longer the better - 3 hrs is definitely better) and went to the toilet about 1hr after drinking something. That left about 2 hrs before testing and gave a more concentrated sample as I think it cleared some of the earlier fluid from my system.
I also found that the OPKs from Lullaby didn't give a gradual building up to a positive result for me - I really only got one dark line on one of the test days and then pretty much no test line at all for the rest of the time. Other brands seem to build up gradually. Apart from Confirm which gave me lots of headaches showing a positive result for 4 days running!!
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