If you're trying on your own...

sohappy14

If you're trying on your own (no meds) when do you do it? All cycle long? Use ovulation test? We only do it the days the test gets 2 lines.. im wondering if we shluld just do it 3 days weekly during my cycle.. Maybe the test is not accurate.. We've given up on iui s bc we've had 5 with no luck .. We have a DS from 2 iui 3.5 yrs ago. We are sad to see him with no siblings and hoping for a miracle. Ivf is not covered and too expensive at this time.
Just wondering I can do to try harder.
I often wonder if I have endometriosis, but scared to have a lap.. No real signs of it except infertility Tia !

pettycrocker

As long as you do the day of your + and the following 2 days, most Drs will say that is plenty. Depending on when you O, like say for ex you know you are around CD 14- 16, you can try sex EOD from around CD 11- 12, until you confirm your O. 

Are you charting your cycles? 

annibes

Charting would probably help you figure out what is normal for your body and when O happens in relation to positive OPKs, but to answer your original question we've tried a number of different patterns over the last 3 and a half years and none of them have been even a tiny bit successful.

almostamissus

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We are currently doing the old fashioned way. I know I usually O on cd 15/16 so I try for eod from cd 8. Once we get a +opk, anywhere from cd 12-14, I try like hell to do everyday until O is confirmed with bbt. It's worked twice, even though I mc both times.

spfclr

I think that Fertility Friend is happiest the more times we "try" the day before, of, and the two days after ovulation. 

GraceyandTroy

I kind of try to have sex at least two or three times a week any way for the sake of my marriage.  DH and I tend to get crabby towards each other if we go too long w/o getting intimate.  But when I know I'm close to o-time, I try to bump it up and go every day or every other day.  

Kissmark

Maybe google Sperm Meets Egg plan? I'm thinking to try this on our none IUI cycle.