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hi ladies. merlee, it's so funny...i just posted on a thread about late ovulation...i mentioned my current experience with Answer OPK's. i'm beginning to think they're faulty. i got a +OPK last thursday, then friday, then saturday...but by friday i was beginning to think something was wrong so i tested using clearblue and BFN!! i am still switching from clearblue & answer, and the answer brand is still giving me positives!!! while the clearblue has yet to give me one. i'm glad to see i'm not the only one with a problem with these. have you ladies heard of ovarian cysts affecting the results?

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Well, I'm not sure what happened, but I had some pretty bad O pains Saturday (started slowly at 4 pm, then got really bad, had to use heating pad). DH got home @11pm and was happy to BD. I woke up Sun with some cramps still, but not as bad. My temp didn't go up at all!! Today, it only went up .1. I had all the signs, ewcm, high and open cervix, O pains, and pos opk, but temp did not go up! So confused! May be the egg didn't pop out?! I just don't know what to think!! D. - Loved the Baby Dust - Thanks!!!

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Merlee,
Sometimes we have slow rises. It takes a day or two for the temp to truly go up. Also, sometimes we have O pains a day or two BEFORE we actually O. Any of it is possible. It's why I chart and do it online. Trying to guess at all that was driving me crazy!!! I'm thinking you O'd. Of course, I can't really know that but I'm going to believe you did. But watch the CM. If you start to feel like you're Oing again, then get busy just in case. I can't remember: Did you say you chart on FertilityFriend?

D.

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Yes, I do chart on FF. My temp usually dips .1 the day before O, then goes up .3-.4, very clear cut. This month I hovered around 97.6-97.7, then up to 97.8. Sun (cd17) when I should have showed O'd, temp stayed the same, no dip, then cd 18 (Monday) temp was 97.9. This morning cd 19 (Tuesday) my temp went up to 98.3, so FF will say that I o'd on Monday. That would be cd 18, and I always o cd 15-17. My cervix is medium high and still open a little. I almost always have a 12 day LP, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see, and calculate based on that. I took black cohosh this month and had hoped that it would help me to O on day 14 not day 18! I just ordered a new herbal formulation online. But I want this to be the month, I am really tired of this as I am sure are, too. DH is gone now til Friday, but he will be home all weekend. He was only home for 24 hrs., just in time to BD x2.

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Maybe it was the black cohosh. Isn't that supposed to be estrogenic in quality? It might have interfered with the progesterone and since that is what gives us temp increase, it just didn't come together. Of course, whenever we start the herbs it can take our bodies a little bit to get used to them and get balanced. And you are like me: Had a little bit of everything wrong with you, right? Here's a list that might help too http://www.talk.sheknows.com/showthread.php?t=185

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D, thanks for the website. I'll try it.

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