Ovulation Test Strips?

Question

Ok, i have been keeping track of my ovulation through a calender on the computer and as well as the ovulaton test strips, according to the calender the 5th was my most fertile time & to have sex at least every other day, but the 9th is the best day to conceive...heres my issue i had sex on the 4th around midnight and i never tested on the 5th, but then on the 6th it showed i had 2 dark lines and i have had very faint to almost no lines since, is it possable i got pregnant and stopped the ovulation? PLEEEEEEEEEASSE help---so confused

Answer 1

Don't listen to those online calendars, I swear they succeed in helping more women NOT get pregnant than they help! They are calculating a date based on this stereotypical cycle, but women vary so much! The Ovulation Test Strips are more scientific, they are looking for a hormone that precedes ovulation. Once the hormone (LH) surges, the egg is released and the hormone goes away, so the tests afterward would be negative. You have to ovulate in order to get pregnant, and that would be your last day of being fertile (since sex before that should result in sperm staying alive for a few days waiting for the egg, but after that day the egg would die since it only lives 12-24 hours). If the test was positive on the 6th, it means you are going to ovulate in the next 12-36 hours. So, get off the computer and go do the baby dance before that eggie is gone! Good luck!

Answer 2

No. But you need to know how those test strips work.

They test your LH hormone, which is what causes you to ovulate. The LH builds up until it hits a certain level (when your test shows the darkest result) and then it drops--the LH surge is enough to cause the ovuation, and therefore there is no reason for the LH hormone to stay high, so it drops--and that's why you don't see those lines very strong anymore.

Once you get a positive ovulation test and those lines are darker than the control line, stop testing. There is no point. Ovulation occurs at one time during the month, the test usually predicts about 30-36 hours before it happens (via LG surge) and once the egg comes out, you have ovulated and it's done for the month. The egg lives about 12-20 hours.

Answer 3

I have a transparent blue effortless fertility track. Its a lil expensive however very correct (if i will simply get pregnant now). You can purchase a used track offline & then all u want is the scan strips. one million field probably final three months relying on how lengthy ur cycles are. You too can purchase the scan strips off amazon or ebay , motive on the retailer the $'s are ridiculous. Good good fortune & child filth 2the either one of us subsequent month.

Answer 4

No honey, you need to ovulate in order to get pregnant. You porbably would have gotten a positive on the 5th. You could have gotten pregnant from sex on the 4th.