According to my temps, I still haven't ovulated. We did our IUI on CD12 and today is CD14 - no temp increase. I knew our timing was off, especially when the nurse was having trouble with my cervix and questioned what CD it was and also confirmed that I had gotten a postive surge.
Yesterday, I stared having strong ovulation pains/symptoms and when I peed on a stick it was instantly a dark positive - darker than either Saturday or Sunday. While I prayed that meant I was in the process of ovulating right then and there, when I took my temp this morning it still hadn't risen. I am guessing today is ovulation day - meaning we did our IUI a day early. I know it is better a day early rather than late but still, this is bad news. Of course, we had sex both last night and this morning so our bases are covered in that department but obviously that hasn't done us much good in the last 17 months so I'm not getting too excited. And if my temp still doesn't rise by tomorrow - then we are two days off and I should have gone by the dark postive rather than just a strong equal positive. Ugh. Who is to know? My doctor said to call when I get a postive, the box says equal means postive. Also, when I showed Saturday's test to DH he said, "Yep, that definitely is positive," so it wasn't just me. I am so confused.
I just feel doomed so far with this whole IUI process. Next cycle I am fairly certain that I'll be taking clomid but I'm thinking that I don't care how much it costs to monitor a bit and do a trigger shot. That way, all the guess work will be taken out and we'll know for sure when I ovulate. These opks just don't seem to work well for me. Either that or I am just an idiot.
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You are not an idiot-OPKs never really worked for me either. It's just so damn hard to be objective when it really seems like such a subjective means of determining-"is it dark enough? will it get darker?" Is there a way to do some sort of limited monitoring? Something like a cd10 ultrasound and then again around cd13? I know that it gets hairy when you are close but not yet quite there. Sounds like you don't need clomid so much as you simply need a trigger (at least at this stage). Just my non-medical opinion, of course. Hopefully the old-fashioned way worked, and this will be a moot point!
I hope, hope, hope that those swimmers are strong enough to hang out and wait for your eggie! I don't think you are an idiot either. I never had any luck with OPK's. I took 20 in one month and never got a positive. After 3 months and no positives, I gave up on them.
I've still got my fingers crossed for you this cycle.
*hugs*
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