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I do know that your hcg needs to return to negative levels for your body to know it is not pregnant. Once that happens, you will begin to cycle....and build up the hormones to ovulate.

With my D&C in October, it took me 14 weeks to get to where I was not pumping out positive HPTs. My levels took forever to drop....and at the end they would drop by 2-5miu per week. It was VERY frustrating. I finally was considered "not pregnant" sometime in January.

I was also told that it was not possible for me to ovulate until my hcg was at 0. I had a very hard time with that....but it's simple science and logic....we won't ovulate if our body still thinks it's pregnant. Hard to accept when we know we're really not technically pregnant.

Wishing you the best of luck TTC.

Thanks for your reply Bostonmama. I had actually been getting negative hpts before going for my fortnight bloods on Wednesday. These tests are getting darker everyday. I also had a positive opk the Thursday before.

We weren't TTC, actually just monitoring levels as I thought you needed a HCG of 0 to ovulate. So my fiance and I had not been using contraception. When the opk came up positive I freaked a bit because we BD the night before. My hpts had been getting lighter and lighter until Thursday when it was positive again, and getting darker. I will be having bloods drawn this week to see. Though not getting my hopes up too much.