I HATE TTC and swaying!!

OMG I feel like you just can't win! I am having so much trouble with opk's because I feel like I water down my pee too much by drinking. Yet TTC a boy says you should up your fluids to increase EWCM and drinking the ural, water with the sups, V8 juice.....I am finding it hard to get accurate opk results. I did a test at 10am with not much to drink, holding since 8am...was getting darker, not pos but getting there....just did it again at about 4.15pm, holding for 2hrs but have had a fair bit to drink prior to the hold...stark white negative. Surely thats not all I am gonna get this cycle? I wouldn't even be able to say it was positive? Have had a lighter line that was slowly getting darker since monday morning. Last night at 8pm it wasn't as dark as 10am...now neg?? I wonder if my urine is too diluted or did I miss it?? I hate opk tests!!!

Even though it's not recommended i always use FMU for my OPK's. I always get the most accurate results that way.

I may give that a try in the morning!!

I also hate all this!
What i do is I use fmu too and test 1 more time afternoon or early night. Try to drink most of you drinks till like 4 pm then go pee till 5 or 6 and stop going and hold it and test around 8pm. If you want to test earlier then stop drinking at 2pm and so you can do the test around 6pm.
You can try to use the smiley face test there is no guessing. I only use that because I tried the strips once and I don't think it gave me a real positive line .Just hate the guessing game.

But you know what I got 3 positive this month and still FF didn't give me a O day LOL

I don't like OPK's either, I got 3 positive ones this month, usually I only get 1 or 2

I just did a quick google to find out why you are not supposed to use FMU with OPKs. The general concensus is that LH is concentrated in the morning and you can get false positives. But i see that on a lot of the boards ladies are using FMU sucessfully, so i don't really know what to make of it all. Maybe do 1 in the morning and 1 at around 4pm.

Or maybe the key is to just do it at the same time every day?

I hate too. Hence why I gave up and just focused on eating well nourishing foods. The rest went out the window ;)

I never get an OPK where the test line is equally as dark or darker. Yet I am 100% sure I O every month. It's bloody confusing to be honest!! I would class my opk as + on Monday at 10am....was negative Monday night (I think I drank way too much and watered it down too much), then + again this morning....but negative now. Cervix was soft high and open this morning but now at 3pm is low and firm again...CM is creamy now too. By looking at my chart I would say I will get the big temp rise tomorrow morning.

But to be honest some people wouldn't class my tests as positive...maybe I have less LH than the average person maybe? But the whole rest of the month they are stark white or a line only a POAS addict would ever notice! So I think I either O'ed last night (TUE) or this morning (WED) which seems identical to last month. Which was why I missed O when DH didn't get home until Wed during the day. Fingers crossed I actually have a chance this month!!

I also used to use FMU. I didn't get accurate results otherwise.

I hate them too but they're the best tool we have, unfortunately!

This is the exact same problem I'm having.. maybe best to go for smiley ones..

PoP are you also temping? If you have a thermal shift then you ovulated, regardless of what the OPK's say. Your temp will not shift if you have an anovulatory cycle.

Personally I like to use an OPK in the morning and then in the evening if I'm getting close to when I normally O... I typically get up and pee, then I will use an OPK 1-2 hours later, generally without having a lot to drink. Then I drink as per usual. If it's looking pretty close to getting positive, I will test again around 6pm. I try to remember to stop peeing around 3-4ish in the afternoon, and to slow down on the drinking.

For me this has yielded OPK's that I can see getting progressively closer to positive and then positive, along with confirmed ovulation 2 days later as would be expected (that's normal for me, some ladies have the surge closer to O though).

I know that some women have trouble with OPK's and some women have issues with certain brands. The really cheapie brand from Amazon (Wondfo brand) causes some ladies problems.

Are you using the same kind of test strip and have you had good luck with it in the past? If you think it could be the test strip I would either try use smilie ones, or try another strip (personally I like and trust early-pregnancy-tests.com's OPK's and EPT test strips... that's what I use)