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@princessandthebee: I'm with you, yay for some Halloween opks!

@Claire.Peonies: I had 4 positive OPKs in a row last month. I didn't get pregnant - obvs - so I don't have any advice. Maybe just figure a bunch of positives is better than no positives!

@Claire.Peonies: Is it possible you could be pregnant? I had this same thing happen to me one time...I had 6 days straight of + OPKs and I started googling what that could mean, and read that often OPKs turn positive when an HPT would too? http://peestickparadise.com/opk_as_hpt.html

LH is a really funny thing. One reason OPKs are not the best single form for ovulation detection is that we make LH all through our cycles. Even men do. And you can have several peaks. For the best accuracy it should be used while temping for the a month or two and you are supposed to stop testing when you get a positive. FYI when I was pregnant with my son I got much darker OPK line than my pregnancy test line so there is always hope. Fx for you @Claire.Peonies:

I tested yesterday and got a I can feel AF coming so I'm not going to test again and just wait for her it show up. I think this is the first month where it'll really hit me that we aren't pregnant.

We are going to be more NTNP these next two cycles so I won't be joining the fun holiday themed POAS threads. If I get pregnant these next 2 cycles I'll be due at the beginning of the school year and I would like to avoid that!

Good luck to everyone left testing this month!

@Cole: I'm digging your stats girl! Good work. Let's get to that 30%!

@ShayNanigans: Ooo, such a pretty chart! looks good to me. FX!

@Boopers: My sister is a teacher and plans on avoiding the beginning of the school year too. Hoping your timing works out the way you'd like, although I'm sure a surprise baby would be awesome too!

@ShayNanigans: When are you testing again? 10 DPO is early.

Congrats to all those with recent +opks!! I'm hoping the end of this month brings a ton of BFPs to go with them!!!

I'm on CD16 and I've been testing with my CBEFM this month, and started using opks as well, since I think I'm almost out of strips for the monitor. Well I'm had almost a week straight now of high readings out of the monitor. However, I've also tested with opks the last 2 days and didn't get any sort of a reading. Which one of these things should I trust haha?? I wasn't planning on buying more monitor test strips this month (mostly just due to cost) but now I wonder if I should since I'm getting a much more hopeful reading from them?

Either way, we've been bd'ing every other day since CD8 - so hopefully the testing is just a bonus?

@Claire.Peonies: Did you test?

@Boopers: I'm sorry.
@ShayNanigans: Good luck this morning!!!

Charting stresses me out. I suck at it. First, I have been sick the past week. Second, I don't think I get a restful sleep due to DH who works long hours and wakes me up at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. every night. Maybe charting isn't for me.

@Littlebit: Big hugs to you, I am sorry this wasn't your month. I really hope next month is your month.

@littlek: It took awhile for me to find my groove with charting too and even now it still isn't perfect. I thought I finally found my perfect time in the morning where I had enough sleep and hadn't been woken up recently, plus some mornings I had a hard time going back to sleep so it had to be late enough that I wouldn't be pissed if I was up for the day but then my dh started training for a marathon and now he wakes up before my alarm and wakes me up half the time! I am still happy to have the information and I guess now I will be adjusting to the time he wakes up.

@littlek: That makes sense, I am sure charting is easier before kids! It certainly isn't worth it if it stresses you out. The first couple of nights I was so worried about taking my temp I woke up like 6 times through the night, if that had continued I would have chucked the thermometer out the window!

@Littlebit: I think people who get a BFP at 8 DPO are the exception not the rule. Hang in there!!!!

Another negative today at 12dpo! I'm sure I'm out. I know we like to say it isn't over until AF but... that's often not the case. Ugh, frustrating!

So I'm still in my TWW, too early to test, but I feel like I go back and forth every month... I try to put off testing because it's so devastating seeing a negative pregnancy test, but then I convince myself 'maybe this is the month!' and then I test anyway. Since it's always been negative, it kinda sucks. So anyway, hoping everyone is having a cheerful TWW despite all that and maybe we'll get some BFPs soon!

I've spent far too much time playing on FF lately with future temps... I had +OPKs on CD33 and 34. Depending on future temps, FF will give me cross hairs anywhere from CD 34 to 35. Thank you FF for making this even more confusing for me! Sunday's temp was a bit of a mess... I temped at 5:10 a.m. and again at 8:30 a.m. Usually it's normal to have a small difference between the two temps. This time I had almost a whole degree difference! If I use the lower temp, FF doesn't give me cross hairs. The later temp is higher than usual though. I found the average and tried to use that. I don't know anymore!! If I use CD34 as O, I have a POAS date of October 31 (13DPO). I have a RX for 12 days of progesterone so I might start that this cycle too.

@Littlebit: I guess put me down for October 31 for now? I hate POAS during the weekday so we'll see if I stick with that or self rollover...

@LOOPEDD- my husband went to BC He loved it! I work at the other Boston school so we fight during hockey season.
I'm coming to NYC on Wed-Friday this week for a conference and I have to watch the world series-- rut roh. Go Sox (quietly)!

@RLCeigh: It's funny, in our house it's as if there IS no World Series... if the Yankees aren't in it, it doesn't exist I will secretly root for the Sox though!!

Love all the Boston connections!