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Vintage: I've been nauseous yesterday and today. On and off. Usually goes away if I eat something and comes back a few hours later.

Miam: hopefully the month off does it for you!

@southern. Good luck and vingers crossed

Dragonfly: thanks! So, I am guessing those it could have been implantation but I won't be able to tell until I test, huh?

@southern. Not for a few days at least. How many DPOs are you?

Dragonfly: depending on which opk you consider positive I'm either 8 or 9 dpo. I'm going with 8 to be cautious. My screenshot shows my OPKs. I generally O within 12-24 hours of the OPK going as dark as the control line. So the blood in the cm would have been on either 6 or 7 dpo. So, I guess I'll know in just under a week.

Southern, we’re very close this month! I’m 10 dpo today. When do you plan to test?
I’m testing in the AM, and I honestly have no idea what’s happening. I don’t feel strongly one way or the other. It’ll be my first full cycle with Ava monitor, so I’m interested to see how the information changes as more data is added.

Vintage: I'm considering testing tomorrow at 10 dpo but I dunno if I wanna see a - test. But my boobs are feeling larger which they haven't done lately during PMS. Even my hubby says they look/feel a bit bigger. I've started having a taste for a soda I usually hate the taste of as well. Could be a fluke. I'm not sure. I think I'm due for af Monday but I dunno if I can wait that long haha! Sooooo maybe tomorrow. The question is, I suppose, should I use a cheap test or a first response lol!

Any update, Southern?
I took a frer this morning and it was stark white. However, for fun, I also took a digital OPK, which showed a positive high result? Not peak, but a blinking ??? What does that mean?

Vintage: I'm just getting up so haven't tested yet. I'm gonna try holding out. As for your opk, one of two things. You either haven't ovulated yet and your body is trying to again. I'm guessing your Ava says you ovulated? If that's the case, sometimes OPKs can pick up HCG because LH and HCG are molecularly similar (this is what I've heard is the reason anyway). But digitals, at least clear blue (not sure your brand), measure two different hormones: estrogen and LH. The rising estrogen triggers the blinking smiley face to tell you high fertility on clearblue. Then when your lh rises you finally get a solid. So, even though hcg could be too low for a test the digital opk could be picking up rising estrogen levels. So, hold.out a bit longer and see if AF shows. You may have just tested too early!

Southern; thank you for the info!! I didn’t know any of that. I do have clearblue digital. I guess I’ll take another one tomorrow and see what it says?
Ava and fertility friend are both saying I ovulated and giving me a biphasic temp pattern. I’m getting impatient now!
I kind of expected things to be out of wack this month because I didn’t do the soy or the progesterone cream, and I figured it would take a minute before my body balanced out. But I don’t think either of those would have impacted the opk results.