DH can't BD at +Tive OPK... So upset

[atomic sagebrush]

I have been curious about this. I always believed temps rose the day after O, and that O would happen within 12-36hrs of the first +OPK. But when the two don't coincide, which gives? I usually get 48 hrs of true positive opks, so I see a positive result on up to 3 separate days. My temp doesn't rise until the morning after the LAST positive OPK.

Could this be explained by ovulation happening within 36 hrs of the start of the LH surge, but the LH levels stay up anyway? And until the LH goes down, the progesterone doesn't rise to make the bbt rise? So the bbt jump might NOT always follow the day after O, but take a day or two longer to appear?

Alternately, and this makes equal sense to me, do the LH levels stay up because O hasn't happened yet and your body senses that it needs to pump in more LH to get the egg to leave the gate? If this is the case, the temp rise would be accurate, not the first positive OPK.

It CAN'T be explained. Both are plausible and are probably true at times. The real explanation that no one likes, is that there are literally a million billion kajillion different scenarios that could be and it all can vary by the person, by the month and even if you've had one pattern every month for your entire life there is nothing stopping your pattern from suddenly and unexpectedly changing.

Without an ultrasound, there is really no way to pinpoint O any more closely than what you've already done. The person who invents a way to do that is going to be a very rich lad or lady.

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I got pregnant for my DD 2days before Oday. Couldn't dtd on O day cause I was ill. You have a great chance.