8 days of positive ovulation tests
tslewis
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Hi all! So this is my partner and I's first month of seriously trying to conceive. I bought the advanced clearblue digital ovulation stick and also bought some cheap non digital strips from CVS. I have a longer 36 day cycle so it told me to start testing on the 16th day of my cycle but I wanted to be absolutely certain I didn't miss it so I started testing on the 12th day of my cycle (which was July 13).
First day result was just a circle (low fertility), second day was a blinking smiley (high) and third day was a solid smiley. Didn't take the test the digital test again until 5 days later and it still came up as peak/solid smiley.
I had also been using the cheap strips since after my first peak with the digital test and they were giving me lines as dark as or darker than the test line and have been since, I've had 8 days of positives now. Have been doing some research but most of the old threads I'm finding where people had similar issues don't have updates on what happened.
Has anyone else experienced this? I'm not temping (I will start next month if I don't get pregnant this month though!). Also just for background I did have an early miscarriage around 15 months ago at around 5 weeks (only knew I was pregnant for 3 days at the time) so I'm wondering if this is a bad sign. Had never been pregnant before.
I don't think I have PCOS as I had a catscan a couple months ago (for gastro issues) and it said my ovary and uterus appeared healthy for my age but maybe that doesn't mean anything.
Any insight is appreciated! Thank you.
Re: 8 days of positive ovulation tests
TTC since June 2016
Azoospermia diagnosis (zero count) Dec 2016
AZFc chromosome microdeletion discovery March 2017
Unsuccessful TESE for DH in August 2017
October 2017 IVF with donor sperm
29R, 24M, 16F, 2d5, 4d6 (6 embryos total)
Only 3 could have PGS. 2/3 normal. 5 embies frozen
12/15/17 FET #1 (1 embryo)--CP
2/7/17 FET #2 (2 embryos)--BFN
Chronic endometritis diagnosis May 2018
ERA Sept 2018--borderline receptive--12 more hours of progesterone
Abnormal SIS Oct 2018
Repeat hysteroscopy Nov 1. Treated recurring endometritis.
12/4/18 FET #3 (2 embryos)--BFN
Our journey has come to an end.
First day result was just a circle (low fertility), second day was a blinking smiley (high) and third day was a solid smiley. Didn't take the test the digital test again until 5 days later and it still came up as peak/solid smiley.
I had also been using the cheap strips since after my first peak with the digital test and they were giving me lines as dark as or darker than the test line and have been since, I've had 8 days of positives now. Have been doing some research but most of the old threads I'm finding where people had similar issues don't have updates on what happened.
Has anyone else experienced this? I'm not temping (I will start next month if I don't get pregnant this month though!). Also just for background I did have an early miscarriage around 15 months ago at around 5 weeks (only knew I was pregnant for 3 days at the time) so I'm wondering if this is a bad sign. Had never been pregnant before.
I don't think I have PCOS as I had a catscan a couple months ago (for gastro issues) and it said my ovary and uterus appeared healthy for my age but maybe that doesn't mean anything.
I didn't take pics before throwing away everyday but I do have some, this is from July 19 (3 days after solid smiley on digital):
[Ew. Pee]
And these are the last 3 days, I think (may be one missing). Bottom one is today: Any insight is appreciated! Thank you.
QFP
Could you add a trigger warning (TW) to your subject line. Some of us have been through miscarriages before too (some very recently) and it can be hard to read about miscarriages without having a heads up.
As for your question, it's possible that the peak monitor got confused by starting too early, but then you shouldn't be seeing such a long peak with the Wondfos too. Check with your doctor to rule out that there wasn't residual tissue left from your miscarriage (have you checked that HPTs are negative too, because HCG can turn an OPK, though I doubt this is the issue since it's been a while since your miscarriage and it sounds like you got some low readings on the OPKs too), or that you have issues with high LH/FSH that could be indicative of fertility issues. But this is something your doctor will be able to help you with more than us.
Me: 30 | DH: 31
Met: August 2006
Married: July 2012
TTC #1 since June 2016
***TW***
BFP: 7/12/16 | MC: 9/12/16
BFP: 1/18/17 | MMC: 2/13/17
BFP: 10/7/17 | EDD: 6/21/17
MTHFR: homozygous A1298C