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if your finding it stressful charting then it won't help conceiving can even delay ovulation and periods. if you feel you know your body well enough to know ovulation and are bd'ing every other day and feel covered to conceive by doing that then don't chart for a few cycles and see what happens. even if you don't use opks and cbfm still pay attention to when u think ur ovulating. its not a bad thing to take a break. its not a stupid choice it is probably a very smart choice to reduce stress levels :-) gl x

thanks i needed some insight on what i thought was going on. and i think it is just getting to be alot for me. but i am still going to pay attention to the time i think i would be ovulating or what it says on the calendar.

I would say definitely stop the opks if you are using cbfm!
The cbfm does the same as opk and more so no sense in wasting money on both!
If you haven't been ovulating at the same time I would continue using the cbfm but you have to trust it. I use it and in the beginning I would get worked up and stressed too so I get what you are going through. I get at least 8 'high' days every cycle with the monitor and it messed with my head because you are really only fertile for up to 5 days )that's how long Sperm can live inside you). But after a couple cycles under my belt I've learned how the monitor reads my hormones and I've adapted to it and trust it. I now know that once I get,y first high reading we should get to work on days 6, 8 and 10.
I say, unless you are certain of when you ovulate, continue using the monitor and trust it rather than stressing over it.
It's meant to help and hopefully it will!

If ur gonna have sex every other day, u dont need any monitors or opks, ur covering all ur bases. If I had to chose between the opk and the monitor, I would choose the opk. Ive been using my cbfm for 6 months now and not once has the peak reading been the actual day of my ovulation. The monitor seems to peak the day after and sometimes even two days after I O. All confirmed with cm, cp, +opk's and bbt. The monitor is the only one that never seems to line up, therefore I do not trust it. Ive even O'd the day before a +opk, so I never fully trust those either. Dont forget, they test levels in ur urine, that surge hits bood first, and if levels dont get high enough in urine to yield a + test, u wont get a + test...but u will still ov. I say give it a rest and just bd every other to every third day. Good luck!! =))

I like all the answers here - they all make sense..for me...I like to analyse..and the problem for me if I did stop using OPK/monitor - is then I would stress about when to test..how many DPO am I..etc etc EVERY month...but I am quite desperate to have children and have had miscarriages...if U think u can let go of the stress - then reduce testing ovulation etc would be great -
With my first child - I got pregnant by BD twice that month and I think it was CD12 and CD 17...(28 day cycle)...if you have regular cycles then maybe you can just make sure you BD every other day using the ovulation calculators they have on websites such as clearblue