I would have posted this question in the TTC group but wanted to open it up to ladies who are already pregnant. For those of you who used OPKs and also measured your temperature, how many days did you typically have between the positive OPK and the temps rise? I had read that mostly your temp rises the day after you ovulate, and my LH test strips box says that ovulation will most likely occur 24-48 hours after the positive.
According to those sources, the temperature rise should happen approximately 3 days after your LH surge (positive OPK), is that how it is/was for most of you? Last month was my first time doing both and there were 5 days between those two events, which made pinpointing ovulation quite hard! Wondering if that cycle was an anomaly or if that is common. My other question is whether you systematically have/had the same length of time between positive OPK and temp rise? Should I expect that this cycle too?
I know all bodies are different etc and I will just have to wait and see but super curious to hear about anyone’s experience!
I only did BBT and OPKs (I used the Clearblue digital ones, not strips) the month I got pregnant so I only have the one cycle to go off, but here’s what happened to me:
[name_u]Day[/name_u] 11: Temps began to dip.
[name_u]Day[/name_u] 12: “High fertility” reading on OPK.
[name_u]Day[/name_u] 13, 14: Temps continued to dip, continued “high” reading.
[name_u]Day[/name_u] 15: Lowest temp reading, first “positive” OPK.
[name_u]Day[/name_u] 16: Second “positive” OPK. [name_m]Temp[/name_m] rose by .3* (biggest jump). Fertility [name_m]Friend[/name_m] noted this as my likely day of ovulation.
[name_u]Day[/name_u] 17: [name_m]Temp[/name_m] rose again by .3*.
Then temps continued to rise but in smaller increments, dipping on [name_u]Day[/name_u] 21 (where I also noted I had “right side pinches” – I remember thinking it was the weirdest thing, I think this was implantation) and rising again after that.
So basically – temps began to dip about 5 days before ovulation, and reached the lowest point one day before ovulation. Temperature began to rise one day after the first positive reading (ovulation day), but four days after the “high” reading.
I hope that makes sense, not sure if it helps at all. Are you using a tracker like Fertility [name_m]Friend[/name_m]? It really helped me as it created a chart that made it easy to visualize what was happening. (And I can still look back on it three years later!).
I used OPKs for two cycles.
One cycle gave me 3 days of positives (last day was peak day), with temp shift not coming until 4 days after the last positive OPK.
The next cycle I had one day with a positive (coincided with peak day again), next day was negative and temp in the FP range, and the next day was temp shift. We conceived on this cycle.
I am always skeptical if I see someone mark a positive OPK after temp shift. Some bodies are anomalous, but it shouldn’t work like that for most people.
In general, you can expect a 1-3 day delay from positive OPK to temp shift. You’re right, OPKs show that a surge may be happening within 24-48 hours, and then temp shift after that (some people get their temp shift the day after the ovulate, others take a couple days, or have a slow rise).
Where do you get your positives in relation to your peak day? That might help pinpoint timing I only have the 2 cycles to go by though, so maybe someone else can weigh in on the peak/ OPK relationship. And I guess that’s only if you have a true surge and not a falsely predicted one.
I only have the 2 cycles to go by though, so maybe someone else can weigh in on the peak/ OPK relationship. And I guess that’s only if you have a true surge and not a falsely predicted one.