Question regarding OPK

[furryheart]

This is my first month using ovulation tests.

I have had a very very dark positive line the past 2 days, darker than the control line and i was wondering if it means im still to ovulate or does it mean i have ovulated? once i ovulate does the positive line go faint right away? so confused!

Also i thought that the positive line was only dark for a short time not for 2 days?

Could someone please help me?

 

[Amber8]

Hi,

I'm new to opk as well but a positive opk means u are due to ovulate, not that u have. You can get a positive for 2days until your line then starts to fade. The positive opk is the LH surge that helps ure egg to be released. I think you ovulate roughly 2days after your first opk result.

Hope this helps, this is just what I've read & also been told on PF.

Good luck x

 

[furryheart]

Amber, thank you im just so confused with these tests. OH will be pleased to know he is still needed lol.

 

[leesey]

You usually ovulate 12-36 hours after your surge, so when it goes fainter your surge is over and you're ready to ovulate xx

 

[vixxie77]

Are you temping too hun? I'm doing both, so really helped to determine, if and when I ov'd. I had 3 days of positive opk's and my chart said that I ov'd the third day, as my temp rose on the fourth day. Hope that makes sense. I think LH can hang around in your urine even after surge is finished, as it starts of in your blood. I would say that u ov'd the day after first positive. Are they both definitely positives? Sometimes it hard to tell x x

 

[furryheart]

No Vixxie im not temping...but they are def positives...i will test again later and see if its still pos.

I dont know if i would have a clue how to temp, thats why i dont... maybe i should look into it further.

Going by what you said then i would have ov yesterday so we should bd today and maybe tomorrow morning just to make sure?

Thanks Vixxie.

 

[Amber8]

Temping is really easy, u just take ure temperature using a basal thermomitor every morning before u get up. I have found it v. Useful as I have irregular periods so I can understand what's happening & when. I would recommend using one.