Hellobee Boards

i have one, and this was my 3rd month using it.

i got it off of ebay - new, for $150, and it came with 40 test sticks (if you want, i can give you the seller's name - he normally has them for sale)

i've liked it so far, in that it kind of takes the guess work out of it - it clearly shows the "peak" days and "high" days, no deciphering necessary - however, i haven't used the "smiley face" test sticks, and they seem like they would have the same kind of assurance. i was using the 2 stripe ovulation sticks for a while, but was driving myself crazy with the comparison to determine which day was the O day

it normally asks you for 10 sticks a cycle, which assumes that you'll ovulate sometime between CD8 - 18. if you don't in that time, it will ask for another 10 sticks

they say that it doesn't work well if your cycle is over 42 days, because the 20 test sticks will possibly not catch your O.

hmmm that's all i can think of, let me know if you have any other questions!

I'm wondering if I should buy one off of craigslist.

i got mine new from amazon and continue to order the test sticks from amazon too. i don't have PCOS but like that i don't have to decipher lines and that it's very straight forward. my cycle is very regular though so not sure about those with extra long cycles.

It did work better for me than OPKs because it gave me more notice of O day - 5 days instead of 1-2. BFP with the first cycle using it. I don't know if it works with PCOS though

bumping to see if there are any more girls who would recommend this!

I have PCOS and my Dr. told me it would be a pointless purchase. If you read the directions available online, you'll see my Dr. was right - it isn't designed for people with irregular cycles at all.

I went to a fertility center so they monitored my follicle growth then I used digital and cheapie OPK's to determine ovulation. They worked great. Actually the digital OPK's would start giving me error messages when I was about to ovulate, so I would have to switch to a cheapie to see the darkness of the lines. If I hadn't been monitored at a fertility center, I would have signed up for fertility friend and ordered a bunch of wondfo OPK's to predict ovulation.

@Modern Daisy: I don't have PCOS to my knowledge. I just have irregular cycles post m/c.

I bought my monitor about 4 cycles into the process and it was really nice to use (i.e. took the work out of things). I always got highs (although sometimes 4-5 instead of 2) before the peak days. It's nice because it's giving you that extra warning so that you can BD, but I wouldn't recommend it for people who have normal cycles (say if you charted enough to know when you ovulate). In that case an OPK is way cheaper. If you're unsure of if/when you're ovulating it's certainly a great tool. I do know that with diagnosed PCOS it is not recommended because it can show an LH surge but it doesn't prove that you actually ovulated. Only a Progesterone test or ultrasound can do that definitively.