Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

What day in your cycle do you start with the OPK's? This is going to be my first month using them and I'm not sure when to start. My cycle last month was 39 days so assuming a normal luteal phase I should have ovulated between CD23 and CD27.

Do I still start on CD10 with the OPK's or should I wait until more like 15-20? What do you guys do?

Message edited 4/30/2007 2:44:23 PM.

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

I start my OPK's on CD18. My cycles are anywhere between 32 days and 40 days. Like this month I got my positive OPK on CD25..so I expect my cycle to be about 39 days.
You don't have to start on CD10. I did that one month and I felt as though I was testing forever.

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

It is so confusing.. all the cycle days... just bd every other day.

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

The OPKS should have instrutions. They will ask you the length of your last cycle and will give you a corresponding number of which cycle day to start testing. Thats what I did.

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

We,,, i used the ANSWER 20 pack for 20 bucks so I started a week after my period just to be sure. I dint want to miss it and i dint care about maybe aving to buy 2 packs, I got preggo first time, we BD like everyday before and after thouhg...heheh

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

my last two cycles have been 45 days, but I've been so unpredictable, that I start using the OPKs on CD10, I also use the CBEFM, so I start whenever the monitor tells me to

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

My cycle was anywhere from 27-39 days.

I used the 20 pack OPK's starting around CD 10. I would test first thing in the morning and around 4 PM every day.

The 20 packs are cheaper and work just as well as the digital IMO. I would BD until the test was negative again.

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

The first time I used them I started on CD8 because that was what the package said. Based on the results for all subsequent cycles I started on CD10.

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

Ahh, instructions

I'll check those out but I think maybe for the first month using them I will start on the standard CD8 and keep going until I get the +. I think I do have long and irregular cycles but if I am just irregular I don't want to miss the surge this month.

Oh, I bought the Target brand. Even though it's only a 7-pack it works out to about $1/test so about the same as the Answer ones.

Thanks

Message edited 5/1/2007 10:07:04 AM.

Re: Question for OPK Users with Long and/or Irregular Cycles

Those packs can get costly. I was using the saliva OPK because it's reusable. It worked for us!!!!!!!!