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Old August 8th, 2008, 02:08 PM
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hello everyone, im new my name is anna, i seen how great everyone is in this forum and just had to post!!!!

My dilema is, I got opks of ebay, and yesterday the day i thought i was meant to ovulate i had a dark line on my opk but defnitley not as dark as the control line...Today their is no line....

If anyone is familiar with the maybe baby? I had ferning to coincide with my nearly positive opk...also gone today!

What does this mean? anyone else had this> does that mean i nearly but didnt ovulate?

any help appreciated, Thankyou
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Old August 8th, 2008, 02:14 PM
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I have had no experience with OPK's or even Maybe Baby, but from what i do know about it, id say its likely you did ovulate yesterday, and your hormones werent at their peak?? What time did you do the OPK test? Ive heard the best time to test is around 2pm, when it has been found that the hormone peaks, or something like that.
If it were me id take it as O day, even though the second line wasnt as dark or darker as the control line.
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Maybe you ovulated earlier and you caught the last end of the LH surge ????

For some people also OPKs just dont seem to work for them....
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thank you for all your help!

I actually went a bit overboard and took 3 opks that day as the lines were getting darker.....lol u know what its like....

So therefore i was thinking it would have been hard to miss the surge but who knows...maybe the opks were dodgy,,,or like you said they may just not work for me?

Thank you again!!! any more ideas on what may be going on are appreciated...
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I had the same issues when I first started using OPK's. I bought them from ebay too and they never were quite dark enough and then nothing the next day. I was told not to drink much for 2 hrs before testing as it can dilute the LH in your system and to also test in the afternoon if you can. I got positive tests but ended up using ovuplan tests from the chemist. they are a bit more expensive but work way more better everytime so no wastage!

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