Hmmm + opk on digital but negative on cheapie strip

dhreczuck

So I was convinced I missed my + this month, but because I'm NUTS, I just used both a digital and a wondfo test strip in the same urine. I got a smiley on the digital and a negative on the wondfo. 

Would you trust the digital? I did use a different test holder than the one I've been using the past few days because it was giving me an error message. Does that even matter? I started using the ClearBlue fertility monitor this month but so far I've had 7 days of highs and no peak, I'm guessing this month I might not get a peak on it since it's the first month.

I could seriously open an ovulation predictor retail store out of my bathroom right now! 

MrsNukem

I had the opposite problem last month!  I had a positive on my cheapie and a negative on my digital.  My temps confirmed I did O, but the digitial never picked up my surge.  I don't think a different test holder should matter.  I think I'm going to stick to cheapies from now on.

robbensm

I thought I was the only one who was going overboard on the OPK testing this month.  I got a bunch of cheapies online but just to make sure they were working I used them along side another kit that I had previously purchased.  After the third or forth time of getting the same results out of both strips you think I would have just picked one kind and stuck with it - but oh no - I kept on using two strips per sample.  Last night I emptied the bathroom trash and the tones of used strips was a nice visual reminder of how crazy I was about the O this month.

danieleandwayne

There is NO logic to OPKs and their accuracy, I swear! Some people do well with the cheapies, some the digital ones, some can do either, and some can do neither. 

It makes no sense!

dhreczuck

I usually use the cheapies until I get a positive on my cheapies and then use the digital to confirm it. I've never gotten a + on the digital and had a cheapie be so clearly negative. Maybe I dipped it for too long? Who knows.. doing the IUI's took so much of the guess work out of things.

Maybe Joleisa

This post makes me feel normal.

I was using the CBE OPKs since first starting TTC. After hearing all about cheapies all over these boards, I got some off of Amazon. They went from light test line to darker, but not darker than the control line and I missed my surge. That next month I decided to "save money" by using the $3 coupon for First Response OPKs. I used the Wondfos and the FR OPKs--missed again! (&*%#!!) The next month I went back to CVS for the $50 box of CBEs that never fail to smile back at me. 

I can only trust the digitals.The box has that warning about "only" using the holder that came with the box of test sticks, but I'm thinking that's a marketing thing.  

danieleandwayne

The cheapie Wondflos don't go darker than the control line-- they only go as dark as the control line. And the faint line to darker is consistent, I've found. I know that I'm going to surge soon and then bingo! Two days of lines almost/as dark as the control line and then: O! Every month. 

Everyone's different, though. 

dhreczuck

Well I think it's very likely I got my + on Sunday. My wondfo's were very dark, but I was looking for a match and it was always slightly lighter than the control line but since then they've been very very light. Sucks because I had the Sono thing Monday so we didn't BD until Wednesday, but no thermal shift Wednesday either so I'm hoping the window was still open!