My understanding is this:

let's say your OPK stick shows 2 lines - 1 is the control line and the other is your surge line. The surge line is supposed to be as dark as or darker than the control line, indicating the surge and that it's a great time to BD. 

So, let's say that you took the first test on monday and you saw only the control line. Tuesday you see only the control line - indicating, so far, no surge has taken place. On wednesday, you might still only see 1 control line, or a really faint second line as the LH increases in your urine. (FYI, the Luteinizing Hormone is always present in your urine, just not detectable on an OPK until your surge).  On thursday you may see the second line appear or darkening if it is present. However, if your cycle is off a bit, you might not even see a second line yet as you might be ovulating later this cycle. There is supposed to be 1 day that the second line gets as dark as or darker than the control line. On this day, you should BD and expect ovulation within 24-36 hours.

As time passes after the surge, I think the line is supposed to be fainter than the control line.  So, it still detects that you have had a surge to some degree, but not as strongly because now you are in "post surge" phase.  Eventually, there will only be the control line on the test because your LH that's present in your urine is now undectable again because it's at "normal" levels.

If you do not detect a surge, than it could mean one of two things: 1. you will ovulate later in your cycle (for whatever reason) or 2. you did not ovulate this month at all - Occasionally, an egg fails to emerge from its follicle after the LH surge has occurred, a condition known as LUFS (luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome).

Hope that didn't confuse you at all.

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I bought the digital, so I don't see the lines, but I read up on them..

My problem is that Monday I didn't test (CD10),  Tuesday I didn't test (CD11) Wednesday I tested (NEG CD12)

I'm wondering if I had my surge on Tuesday, if the digital tst will still show a positive... I doubt I OV'd that early, but was wondering none the less...

I'll test tonight too, and tomorrow and the next day if I have to...

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Beans, with regard to opks, the way its worked for me the 3 cycles I've used them is that there is at least 2, sometimes even 3 days in any cycle where I test positive - and they are always the days BEFORE I ovulate; as soon as ovulation happens, I start testing negative.  If you eject the test strip after you test, you can even see the lines instead of just the happy face/circle, if you want.  In any case, it sounds like you have all your bases covered, so to speak (lol baseball analogy), just in case your surge was earlier this week

Mrs. M, I will update page one to show July 31 as your testing date - not AF due date, because of course she's not invited to show up 

jaeda, if you're sure you're not pregnant then I hope AF shows up for you soon so you can start another cycle

Not much new with me...had a huge climb in my temps this morning!  I ovulated on the 30th and my temps so far in the first 3 days of the 2ww have been in the 97.7-97.9 range, but today was all the way up to 98.5 (not that that means anything, it was just a big jump).  Otherwise, just hanging in there with the waiting...man, I wish I knew how I was so zen back in February...I would love to be able to be that zen now, lol.  I'm trying not to be one of those girls who treats everything as a symptom...just going to ride it out for now and try not to read too much into things - at least until I get closer to next weekend

How is everyone else doing?

Even when it's not my TTW I'm still in here seeing how everyone else is doing... it's a real nail biter!

Good luck and have fun to all those BDing too!

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July 21st, 2007

Aaron, when's the last time you tested?  Are you SURE you're not pregnant?!  This just sounds so strange...