Trying to Conceive after Miscarriage or Loss ~ September 2008

[ByTheOcean]

Hi Jen805, I haven't posted much on the boards at all except after my miscarriage, but can answer this one I think!

If the second line is lighter, you haven't had your LH surge yet. The LH surge usually occurs early in the morning (ie in the hours after midnight), and it can take up to 8 hours for the LH levels to show in the urine sample, which is why its best to test during the day (the ones I use say between 11 and 3). If I had your result, I would probably test at 11 tomorrow morning (that said, I am impatient and this month when I had a lighter line I did one later that night - still light).

What usually happens to me is I have two days where the line is light (so 'negative') and then after that I'll get a definite 'positive'. I'm sure there's no science to it, but I kind of take the lighter lines as an early warning system that the LH surge is a-comin'.

Hope this helps!