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If you're having a lot of clear CM you should assume you're fertile unless you know for a fact that you aren't. And by "know for a fact" I mean you have an ultrasound done or your progesterone levels drawn or something to definitively indicate that you ovulated.

The reasoning for this is that your body can gear up to ovulate and not actually ovulate. When this happens you'll get all the right fertility signs (fertile CM, positive OPK, etc) but then your body fails to ovulate. Generally when this happen your body will try again in a week or so and then keep trying periodically till either it finally ovulates or you just end up with an anovulatory cycle.

General rule of thumb is to always consider yourself fertile and plan sex accordingly whenever you have fertile CM unless you know for a fact that you ovulated already.

I tracked my ovulation with opk

And not only that I just woke up from a 3 hr nap and I do not nap. I actually have been diagnosed with parainsomnia. So that pretty much tipped me off.

Yeah you can get a positive OPK and not ovulate. I've had a couple of cycles where I got a positive OPK then didn't actually ovulate till a week or so later after yet another positive OPK.

But if you think you're pregnant the best thing you can do is take a test.