sookie said:
I decided to get one as with a long cycle I think OPKs will get pricey.
They'd cost exactly the same if you're long and regular as if you're short and regular - in fact less, because you'd have fewer cycles per year. But you're right that if you're irregular, they could be pretty pricey!
If you use a CBEFM and have a long cycle, the first month will use up a lot of test sticks because it starts asking for them on CD6, regardless of your cycle length. So the first month it asked me for 20 sticks, but the second it started asking later, and asked me for only 10 - it usually asks for either 10 or 20.
Similarly, with OPKs, I think my cycle has now settled into a 33-day pattern, so I wouldn't start testing till CD16 or so, whereas someone with a 26 day cycle might start testing on CD10. Someone with a 26-day cycle is going to have 14 cycles a year, whereas someone like me with a 33+day cycle is going to have 11 or fewer cycles per year.
But if you're irregular, and you have to test from CD10 to CD40 each month, then yep, it could cost a fortune!
Mildly, your cycles have been pretty similar to mine then, as mine varied between 33 and 57 days. How long have you been TTC, and were you on the BCP before? If so, when did you come off it? I reckon it took a good year for my cycles to sort themselves out after the pill.
CB23 - It is possible to be pg and still have what seems to be a light period - and your chart shows it as still being light. However, it's also quite common to have a delayed temp fall. Quite a few of the charts in the FF gallery have high/rising temps for the first 3 or so days of AF, and then it plunges
Maybe you should assume your chart will follow this pattern - although you're CD2, you're only 13 dpo, and it does seem that the charts with the shorter than ave luteal phases are the ones with high temps during AF (ave LP being 14 days). If you get to CD7, and you're still having temps above last cycle's coverline, and AF remains pretty light, it would definitely be worth testing again. 18 consecutive high temps are indicative of pregnancy.
Hope this helps.
Hope everyone else is ok! ROM, any sign of a line yet?!