Ladies with long cycles (30+ days), how long is your cycle and around what CD do you normally ovulate?
Ladies with long cycles (30+ days), how long is your cycle and around what CD do you normally ovulate?
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
My cycles are 33 to 34 days and I ovulate about day 19 ish. So my LP is about 14 days.
grapefruit / 4703 posts
I O on day 18-20, but right now my LP is only 9-10 days, so I still don't have a very long cycle.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
My cycles averaged 36 days, I thought I O'ed on CD18-19, but the cycle that we got our BFP, I used the CBEFMonitor and found that I actually O'ed on CD22.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I O between day 18-21 and my cycles are 31-33 days long.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
@bluestriped bee: @Leialou: I used OPK last two months and I got positive readings on CD 17 so looks like we're pretty similar. My cycles are normally 34 days long.
@mrsjyw: Prior to using the CBEFM, did you use other OPK? We usually stop BD 2 days after I "O" because we're exhausted, but I'm wondering if I should a) keep BD, b) invest in a CBEFM, or c) keep testing on the OPK to ensure I'm not getting a false positive.
@mrskc: Crazy how all our cycles are so similar yet we O on such different days!!
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
Hmm this is interesting. Like Rachel my cycles have been 29-37 days long since going off BC and I've used OPKs twice, turning positive on CD16ish (short LP, I guess).
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
My cycles are insanely long, 40-50 days, with ovulation around days 32-35. This past cycle (when I got pregnant), I O'd on CD 33.
apricot / 302 posts
My cycles are typically around 38 days and I usually ovulate around CD 18.
coconut / 8681 posts
My cycles were normally 34-36 days and average O was CD 22-24. However, I didn't O until CD27 in my last cycle and I got pregnant.
coconut / 8681 posts
@Alivoo01: I used wondfo ovulation strips at first but by that time I’d gotten sick of testing for O LOL. I was temp’ing though and that’s how I knew that I ovulated.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Looks like I need to BD from CD11 till 14 days prior to diablo's arrival to ensure coverage (and do the feet in the air thing too) and maybe finally get a BFP! This could be taxing... LOL!
grapefruit / 4291 posts
On my 33 day cycles I would usually O on CD 20 or 21. My LP was somewhere between 11-12 days and it took us ten cycles of TTC to get our BFP.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
It's mostly 32-34 days long (although in the past 8 cycles, it's been as short as 29 and as long as 40). O day is usually around day 20 (which was earlier or later for those wacky cycles). LP is 12-14 days. I keep BD until I see the temps go up for a couple of days. Having said that, I'm trying OPK this month, to see if FF is guessing ovulation properly.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@Alivoo01: I was using the wundfo OPKs from amazon. We also stopped after two days of two line OPKs babydancing and testing! Which I think was my mistake. I'd highly encourage you to get the monitor or keep testing after your first couple positive OPKs to get a better handle on when your O day might be!
apricot / 286 posts
@mrsjyw: Did your OPKs ever correspond to your monitor? (ie when the OPK is positive, the monitor has the eggy on it?)
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
@mrsjyw: Wait, explain this again? So your OPKs were positive but you didn't o til like 5 days later?
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
@mrsjyw: I'm with @JoJoGirl: in that I'm slightly confused. I thought you only get 1 positive OPK per cycle that meant you were ovulating sometime in the next 36 hours.
Regardless, some ladies here have 34-36 day cycles and ovulate later so I think I'll just have to pull up (or down in this case) my big girl pants and just BD like it's going out of style. Hope I don't wear myself out bc the first month of TTC, we BD everyday for a week straight and that was exhausting already!!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@jojogirl @Alivoo01 - should've been more clear, i think my reading of the OPK strips weren't as accurate.. the monitor helped me distinguish what was my error in what I read in prev months on the strips.
When I was using the OPK strips, Id get what I thought were two lines on day 18 or 19 and would bd until then and stop.
Using the monitor I learned that I didn't O until CD22 and BD a couple days after that too
coconut / 8681 posts
@Alivoo01: During the cycle that gave me this BFP I was taking OPKs and I got one that was deceptively dark on CD12 so I thought that I was going to get lucky and actually O like a normal person. Starting the day of that OPK we BD every day. We didn't stop until the day after O was confirmed by my temp (CD28!!!!). We were exhausted LOL. It was probably good though because I was so paranoid after I got the BFP that we had a bit of a dry spell!
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
Has anyone had this problem using the digitals? Now I'm getting all paranoid we're BDing at the wrong time.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
@mrsjyw: @Running Elley: Thanks for the explanation ladies! I currently "think" I O on CD17/18, which is similar to what y'all originally assumed as well but didn't realize you actually O later. I'll be sure to keep BD until I absolutely can't anymore. Lol. I learn something new every month so hopefully this is the last missing link to us getting a BFP!
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
@JoJoGirl: I was using digital OPKs and got the smiley face on CD 17 and BD two days past it but have only received BFN. Based on Mrs JYW and Running Elley's info, I'm going to keep BD way past it.
blogger / honeydew / 7081 posts
My cycles are 35 - 50 days long, and I ovulate anywhere from CD 18 - CD35. Its frustrating.
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
@Alivoo01: My cycles have been 29 days long, with a positive OPK on day 16, so I can't imagine I'm Oing anywhere past that... my LP is already too short. I don't know what to do maybe I should get the monitor too if we aren't successful this month.
apricot / 302 posts
This month is killing me, my cycles are usually 38-40 days, but I'm on CD 47 (and NOT pregnant, I've taken 4 tests just to be sure). So ready to just have this cycle be over!
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