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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The test that would give me a Positive

No results....and all of a sudden three months had passed. Every month I trusted this free calendar to provide me with my two most fertile days and finally answer some of the questions that haunted me. I had done exactly what it suggested in trying to time it perfectly. It was very simple you see because all I had to do was enter numbers and it told me exactly what days to try to conceive my miracle. When this hadn't produced any results, I decided to try the next best thing...ovulation predictor kits. Much like pregnancy tests, these can be somewhat pricey. With much needed advice from others, I decided to go the extra five dollars and get the one with twenty sticks instead of just seven since I obviously didn't know when I ovulated being that my free ovulation chart had failed me three months. What I didn't mention before and probably should have, my cycle had been late every month since I got off birth control. This does not help at all when you are subconsciously waiting to see what may happen. It proves to be even worse when you start charting and timing because you realize that you have no knowledge or control over your own body! So following the instructions under the "I have no idea how many days my cycle lasts" in the ovulation kit, I started getting up three days after I ended my cycle every morning and peeing in the cup that it provided. I had to start getting up early for work at least five minutes because this is how long you wait before reading the results. As the directions state, as soon as you see a positive line in the test area as dark or darker than the line in the control area, you are supposed to try and conceive immediately. The positive line on the test side signals a detection in LH surge, the hormone released right before ovulation. You are supposed to have two consecutive days that you get a positive sign and these are supposed to be your two most fertile days. It went on to say that if you get no positive sign at all, then it is a great possibility you may not ovulate at all and should consult your doctor. Now you will see why I was very happy to be able to use a test that would indeed give me a positive result and it gave me that for two months!

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