Charters - Opinions needed!!

Hello!!
I wish this TTC stuff was easy but this time it is totally confusing me.
I used OPK's this month from CD8 and I expected to O sometime around CD 14-16. I never really got a true positive OPK (used Lullaby Conceptions) but on CD's 11, 12 & 13 I got my darkest test line, but only about half the shade of the control line. Then from CD14 the test line faded away to nothing by CD17. So I havent recorded any positives on my chart. I also think that my temps are all over the place. I tend to have broken sleep these days, my usual waking time is 5am but have been waking up anytime between 3am - 4.30am so I take my temp then because I know I want be fully back to sleep and get those hrs in before taking my temp again...
I'm checking CP too but not as familiar wth my CP as I thought I was! But I had a definite change yesterday...
On CD17 I had some pinkish discharge, that was only there when you wiped and then disappeared after a couple of hrs. I've been having lower back pain/ache too & a tad constipated...

So what to you think? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!! I think I am having an anovulatory cycle, but I dont know?!! I came off the pill 2 months again. With DD we concieved the 3rd cycle after coming off the pill..

PS.. link to chart is in my signature :)

Well I've put my O day as CD 14... any opinions?

i'd think O day was around CD14 or 15...the spotting soon after on 17 supports that too as it can take a few days for the spotting to show post O (for those that spot like i used too).

HTH!

Cheers Caccius :) That is what I am thinking too so I overrode FF and put in O day as CD14.
I'm not normally a spotter after O so not sure what that was about. I did spot of my cycle when I was pg with DD, so will just have to wait and see what happens.
AF is due at the end of the week so we'll see what develops during the week I guess!!

i am wishing you all the best! the last week of the TWW is soooooo hard!!

For sure!! I think I'm lucky that I have somewhat missed half of it without knowing if I have O'd..

Hey Ngala, I agree that you probably O'd on days 14 or 15 based on your signs and temps. Charting is hard with interrupted sleep and there are enough variables as it is!

I've used the same OPKs as you and have only had a 'true positive' once. I tend to count the OPK with the darkest line (even if it's half the width of the control e.g. first half is dark and then fades out) as a positive.

The signs you describe over the past few days sound like luteal phase to me. Go the progesterone!

Best of luck sweetpea.

I'd say you have too few temps to be sure, but O was most likely CD16 based on temps and CM.

GL

Just a note on OPKs. It works on the idea that the 'average' woman will have a surge of LH. So basically control line is set at the minimum surge level for the 'average' woman, and looking for the line equal to or darker than the control is just basically looking to see if you have more than the minimum amount of LH that the average woman surges on, and would cause ovulation. If you aren't the average woman, OPKs aren't truly accurate, as sometimes you will never get a true positive. Alternatively, if you aren't that average woman at the other end of the scale, and you don't ovulate unless you have a higher than average LH surge, getting a positive result might not necessarily mean anything except that you have a higher than average amount of LH in your urine.

Hope this makes sense :)

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Just a note on OPKs. It works on the idea that the 'average' woman will have a surge of LH. So basically control line is set at the minimum surge level for the 'average' woman, and looking for the line equal to or darker than the control is just basically looking to see if you have more than the minimum amount of LH that the average woman surges on, and would cause ovulation. If you aren't the average woman, OPKs aren't truly accurate, as sometimes you will never get a true positive. Alternatively, if you aren't that average woman at the other end of the scale, and you don't ovulate unless you have a higher than average LH surge, getting a positive result might not necessarily mean anything except that you have a higher than average amount of LH in your urine.

Hope this makes sense :)

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Sorry to hijack, but thanks for this. Seems obvious now. I can get a week of +ve OPKs so now figure they're generally useless for me.

Indadhanu - ooo now theres some food for thought! Ofcourse they would base a test like that on an average woman and we arent all average are we?!!

Thanks for your thought everyone. CD16 could be probable too cause there was a significant shift in temp. I will see what tomorrow shows temp wise...