pos opk day before scheduled trigger

Jen071407

I have a call into my RE nurses, but guessing this will be a quicker response. What happens if you get a positive opk before your scheduled trigger? I was supposed to trigger tomorrow at 11pm and iui Friday at 11am. Just got a pos opk at 12:15pm today. I was really wanting to trigger to ensure both follicles would release. They were at 16.5 and 17.5 yesterday. I'd appreciate any input! TIA!

AprilDrew04

I'm no expert here, but I believe the +opk means you will ovulate in 24-48 hours.  Also, thinking that if you did ovulate one, then the trigger may still cause the second one to ovulate as well.

Curious to hear what your RE says. 

Jen071407

Nurse just called back and said she will have to "put it into the RE" bc she didn't know. She also said they don't usually have patients do trigger AND opks?! Wth?! Doesn't logic say if I'm surging right now I will likely ovulate by tomorrow night when they wanted me to trigger, which would make a Friday iui too late? Interested to see what the RE says.

ETA: apparently plan stays the same. RE says opks are hard to read and the ultrasound I had yesterday is a better indicator. We will be BDing tonight and tomorrow to cover our bases, but just seems odd opks suddenly "don't matter. "

HairStylinWifey

gennyu:

Jen071407:

Nurse just called back and said she will have to "put it into the RE" bc she didn't know. She also said they don't usually have patients do trigger AND opks?! Wth?! Doesn't logic say if I'm surging right now I will likely ovulate by tomorrow night when they wanted me to trigger, which would make a Friday iui too late? Interested to see what the RE says. ETA: apparently plan stays the same. RE says opks are hard to read and the ultrasound I had yesterday is a better indicator. We will be BDing tonight and tomorrow to cover our bases, but just seems odd opks suddenly "don't matter. "

I agree that it feels odd, but my RE has also advised that I put away the OPKs while on a monitored cycle.  So I do.

Yep. The ultrasound is going to be a better indicator of what your body is doing. Are you doing IUI? If so, be careful about too much BDing. You wouldn't want a low count when you really need it. 

ETA: I see IUI is for Friday. Personally, I would only BD tonight and then wait until Friday night.

Jen071407

Thanks for the replies! I wish I was told sooner to put the opks away during a trigger cycle. It would have spared me all this extra analyzing I'm trying to stop doing. I think I understand what my RE said, basically that the surge the opk picks up can last awhile, but the actual peak is impossible to identify and that is the point that the 36 hours to ovulate starts. So hopefully my "peak" isn't until late tomorrow. Does that all sound right with what you all know? Never thought I'd be so mad to see a positive opk!

notkateanymore

gennyu:

Jen071407:

Nurse just called back and said she will have to "put it into the RE" bc she didn't know. She also said they don't usually have patients do trigger AND opks?! Wth?! Doesn't logic say if I'm surging right now I will likely ovulate by tomorrow night when they wanted me to trigger, which would make a Friday iui too late? Interested to see what the RE says. ETA: apparently plan stays the same. RE says opks are hard to read and the ultrasound I had yesterday is a better indicator. We will be BDing tonight and tomorrow to cover our bases, but just seems odd opks suddenly "don't matter. "

I agree that it feels odd, but my RE has also advised that I put away the OPKs while on a monitored cycle.  So I do.

mine too. As soon as I started doing medicated/monitored cycles, all the rules changed!