When can I test?

mommymatter

So I'm on Day 33 of my cycle and (according to the OPK) 10 days post ovulation. FF says not to test until day 5 of my next cycle which isn't until next Friday. That's over a week away!!! This is my first full cycle since removing the Mirena but prior to placement my cycles were generally 28-32 days. Any opinions? I'm thinking of taking a test on Friday (2days from now) but is that silly and just too soon? PS I bought a 2-pack of tests but already used them last Friday and Sunday so I feel like it would be more financially sound to wait until I miss a period. I just don't know when that should be. Ugh!

kelley72

If you aren't charting your bbt you don't know when you ovulated therefore no-one can assist you with testing accuracy.  I will say that when I had my mirena out my first cycle was 19 days long, then it leveled out.  If I were you I'd hold out on testing unless you don't mind spending $ on hpts.  

If you don't conceive this cycle I'd suggest looking into fertility friend and become familiar with charting your temp, utilizing secondary fertility signs, opks, and grabbing the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

best wishes

flyliceandcoffee

someone here (I can't for the life of me remember who) told me that if this is your first time using FF to keep track of ovulation, they it sets your testing date at day 18dpo since that's when it's 99% accurate. Once you have more cycles inputted, it supposedly changes to the testing date, but I have not had experience with that yet since this is only my second cycle keeping track of all the things.

that being said, 10 days is "usually" too early to tell if you've got a positive, but not impossible. It won't be definitive if it's negative either. I'd imagine you could (assuming you're okay with seeing a negative result and knowing it's not definitive) start testing if you wanted. But yes, if you're worried about the financial cost of buying the tests, and don't have a stockpile from say Amazon, then you might wanna wait a bit...

gscoville

You're 10 DPO and you tested on Friday and Sunday, 5 and 7 DPO? Yikes, my dear, if you have a problem with wasting money on HPTs you should definitely start with not testing so far before 10 DPO. Implantation doesn't even happen until 7 DPO and it usually takes a few days after that for enough HCG to build up in your system to show as a positive on a test, so 10 DPO is usually the earliest you might get any accurate reading. And to echo a PP, yes, when you're new to FF it sets the testing date at 18 DPO, because it doesn't have enough data to go by and wants you to wait until testing would be absolutely accurate.

With regards to when you CAN test, well, assuming you're an adult with access to stores that sell HPTs, you can really test whenever you want to.  If you're actually asking when is the BEST TIME to test, that's another question entirely.  I always advise waiting at least until the day after your missed period.  But I'm a waiter - even when I wasn't benched and still TTC, I just didn't test, I preferred to wait until my period was late by a few days and test then - which unfortunately meant I never tested, because I never got to 'late'.  But then I never had to see negative HPTs or feel like I was pissing on money either, was a good trade-off.