11 DPO and a fient line on OPK?????

[angelD]

Hi everyone,

I have looked on this site many times over my pregnancy journeys. I have been pregnant 3 times but sadly none of my babies made it to full term. My first, a girl was born sleeping at 20 weeks. my second was a miscarriage at 10 weeks, although our little bean had passed at 5wks 6days. and the third was an early detected ectopic. I was given quite a toxic drug after the ectopic and we where told that we couldnt try to concieve again for at least 3 months.
Those 3 months are now up and we have not been avoiding the possibility of getting pregnant but I have not been charting or using OPK's like we have in the past.

The thing is that I am now 25 says since my last period, my cycle is anything from 28-32 days and generally i ovulate between 14-16 days after my period. I am in tune with my body and noticed the fertile cervical mucus earlier in the month and we did the baby dance several times around that time.

Now I am confused, I have been getting nausea most mornings for the past week and I have been quite emotional and iritable. I have taken a pregnancy test this morning (i know its too early really) which was negative, but I have also used an OPK yesterday and today which is showing a feint line........... (i must be at least 10-11 dpo today so it shouldnt really be showing line at all) I used an OPK last time i suspected I was preganat and i was, with my third.

The OPK says that the cut off point is 20mlU and the preganacy test says its 15mlU so i dont understand how the OPK shows a fient line and the pregnancy test is negative. I have researched how OPK's can detect the pregnancy hormone as they are virtually identical so I dont want a lesson in all that, I am just wondering if anyone has experienced this in the past and what the eventual outcome was

Thanks guys

AngelD

 

[MrsMushroom]

So sorry to hear about your losses hun xxx

I didn't want to read and run, BUT I wouldn't use OPKs as an HPT

I did this back in October and I got my BFP at 10dpo. Unfortunately I lost the baby at 8 weeks. When we started ttc'ing again last month, I tested again with OPKs from 7dpo and got lines all the way and got myself so excited, only to get a BFN and AF the next day

I think the first month I did this was coincidence and I always have some LH in my system at that time of the month.

They say you can use OPKs as HPTs but the OPK needs to be as dark or darker than the control line (just as it would be at detecting ovulation).

After what happened to me last month, I would never test with OPKs after ovulation again.

Hopefully you do get your BFP this month though, but I would say OPKs are unreliable as HPTs xxx

 

[Charlie2911]

It's really not a good idea to use OPKs as HPTs You'll always get a line with OPKs, even when not ovulating and not pregnant because the hormone LH is always present to some degree in the urine. An OPK will be positive if you're pregnant - i.e. the test line is as dark as or darker than the control line. But if an OPK is positive because you're pregnant then a HPT should be positive as well because the HCG hormone will be present in your urine. Have a look at http://www.peeonastick.com/opkhpt.html for more info.

Good luck and fingers crossed for your BFP xx

 

[angelD]

Thanks for your replies ladies.

I know that its not a good idea to use OPK's as im probably setting myself up for a fall. I am aware that there is always some LH present in my system, however i believe that it would not be as high as 20mlU on a normal day (which is the amount that the OPK picks up on) The line is only feint but there is a line there. I have used ovulation sticks many times in the past and quite often I have had no line what so ever, obviously when im not ovulating. anyway, its by the by isnt it.

I had promised myself that I was going to wait until the 1st Feb before i did a HPT that way it would have been 42 days since my LMP and should i be pregnant, i would be almost 6 weeks and then when we go up to the hospital to be monitored, as they have suggested, there would at least be something to see and hopefully a heart beat. During my third preg i was having to have blood tests at the hospital every 2 days as it was so early and they wouldnt have been able to see anything on the vaginal scan..... I dont want to have to go through all that again. Anyway, I am rambling.....fingers crossed and good luck to you all.....

AngelD

 

[jojo3972]

I did this last month to help with my poas addiction and I had lines from 7 dpo so I was getting my hopes up but if course af turned up and I wasn't pregnant I will never use opks again I will stick with my own plan of testing on 12 dpo if bfn then il wait for af 9 dpo today and I didn't even want to test ha how gd a, I lol sorry for ur losses I've also lost 3 xx

 

[angelD]

Thanks jojo,

we do put ourselves through the ringer dont we!!!! what will be will be, i think im rather cynical about it all now, having lost 3 you have to develop a barrier to protect yourself from going under due to the loss, grief, stress, anticipation ect. i know i do.

Initially i said that i wasnt going to test until 1st Feb but it got the better of me, OPK and pregnancy tests way before its time is an example of it 'getting the better of me' it doesnt help that my partners mum wen to see a phychic last year who said that there where twin boys waiting and that it would be in February........Id love twins........ BUT i should know not to trust that/them as after my 1st loss at 20 weeks, i too seen a medium who said that I would not loose any more children.......i lost 2 more after that

Amyway as i said what will be will be, ovulation sticks or not lol.

Hope you get what you desire soon xxxxx

 

[Esperanza84]

Im sorry to hear about your losses!

I would not recommend you to ide opk as hpt. I had strong Lines on my opk last cycle but af still came:/

Hope you figure it out!!

xx

 

[jojo3972]

Yes it's very hard after losses harder than without all u want is to fill tat vacant space in ur heart and arms each month af arrives and a bit more of ur heart is chipped away my mil was also told by a physcic there was a baby boy to be born soon :-/ as far as I know only me that is ttc in the family time will tell hey xxx

 

[angelD]

indeed JoJo. i know what you mean, All of my friends have a child or children and its sad to say that along the way friendships have folded for one reason or another, people not being there for me as i hoped they would. I know that no one can understand what we have been through and i dont ask tem too but some people really can be insensitive when they have everything you want. Its hard not to be jealous isnt it but i try not to be, some days that is easy and other days i just it and feel sorry for myself, and why shouldnt I? I wouldnt wish all of this on my worst enemy. BUT as they say, what doesnt kill you makes you stronger..............still dont know if i believe that or not. Iv just spent all afternoon writing my blogg in the TTC Journal section, I think it will help me in the weeks and months ahead now that im TTC again. its nice to know that im not alone. I noticed you have one too. im gonna have a read now xxxx