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Save urself the confusion and stop testing once u get a positive. All positives after, mean absolutely nothing...esp if ur temping and know u already O'd.
Good luck! =))

This is my first month ttc, so I'm new to this infuriating experience. Thank you though! :)

It's a frustrating process, that's for sure. Arm urself with as much knowledge as u can. Chart ur temps (bbt) every morning, that will confirm an ovulation date for u, use opks only until u have ur 1st positive, watch ur cervical mucus for fertility then loss of that fertility (it can help pinpoint O if ur chart is finicky) and if ur really bored, learn how to check ur cervix...it can also help pinpoint ur fertile window. Definitely don't worry too much about how long opk's are positive for tho, anything involving urine can be altered easily.

I know I was supposed to stop testing, but I just wanted to see if my levels went down today. They hadn't. So...that's 4 days of positive opks. Could I NOT be ovulating?

It's possible ur not ovulating, but the length of the surge has no bearing on whether or not an egg releases. I temp, so I always know when/if I have O'd, one cycle I had 8 days of positive opk's but O'd on the evening of the first one.
Sometimes if the egg doesn't release, ur body will send out another surge shortly after. These surges can seem like one long one...it's hard to say for sure if it's one or two tho. I would def look into bbt and start asap. It won't help u right now cuz u don't have baseline temps to work with, but come next cycle, u won't need to continue testing or worry about why u have so many positives.

Well, I think something did happen because I've 'dried up' and before around the time when my charts said I'd ovulate, I was having discharge. Maybe I have high lh surges?

And usually around ovulation I get pretty frisky. I had that for a few days around ovulation. I don't have that now.