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Hi! There are two possibilities for the result you have seen. First is that you may not have ovulated the first time you got a positive. OPKs tell you you have a lutenising hormone surge, not that you ovulated. You can only confirm this by charting basal body temperature and seeing a rise for three days after ovulation. So it is possible you geared up to ovulate and that it didn't happen.

The second possibility is that the OPK is picking up hCG and that you could be pregnant. However, as OPKs are far less sensitive that a pregnancy test if you are getting negative pregnancy tests this is unlikely. hCG and LH are similar in structure, however people who have see positives on OPKs get them after a positive on an HPT due to the sensitivity.

9dpo is really too early to think about testing as that is the most common day for implantation. You will only get a positive HPT a couple of days after implantation so 11dpo is when you should start testing if you don't mind a few negatives. You might only implant at 12dpo in which case you would only get positives at 14dpo, so don't get disappointed yet :)

Were you testing with first morning urine on your HPTs? That is when it hCG is most concentrated so you are most like to get a positive then if you are pregnant.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing how it goes :)

Thanks for your reply! I've been thinking about those possibilities as well. I agree it's a bit early for opk's to be picking up hcg, so that's probably not it. On the other hand, if this is a second surge and actual ovulation, this would be the latest I've ever ovulated, since I'm already at cd 31. Also the last time I had my surge (10 days ago) I had all the symptoms... sore boobs, ewcm, twinges, and this time I have none. Even my cervix is hard and closed right now. Very strange, oh well I guess I'll wait and see!

Hi, hows it going? Any news or did AF get you?