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Question on OPK?
| Thu, 02-12-2009 - 12:39pm |
Hello ladies,
I have a question regarding OPK's. The Answer brand to be exact. I bought a kit on Sunday and used it right away.
| Thu, 02-12-2009 - 12:39pm |
Hello ladies,
I have a question regarding OPK's. The Answer brand to be exact. I bought a kit on Sunday and used it right away.
Hi Rachel.
I used the Answer OPK this past cycle for the first time as well and had some issues with it.
13. My test line looks "half positive"-- only one side of the line is dark. What does it mean? Most of the time, OPK results are easy to read; the "result" line is one uniform color/darkness. Sometimes, however, you may get a result that looks "half positive," like this:
"result" line on left
"control" line on right
When this happened to me, I contacted the distributor (in this case, BabyWishes.org)-- I even e-mailed them the above photo. I was told that the darkest part of the "result" line should be compared with the test line, and that this applies to all brands of OPK's.
This month I purchased some Answer brand OPK's, which I had never personally used before. After my LH surge appeared to last 6 days (going by the above rule of thumb), I made the unsettling discovery that my tap water was also ovulating. So I called Answer's 800# and asked the same question. This time I was told that the dark part of the line must be at least 50% of the total width to be considered positive. Going by THAT, the picture above would be considered negative. (And, in retrospect, my LH surge actually lasted a common 2 days-- and my kitchen faucet is not currently fertile.)
So, it appears that my information from BabyWishes was incorrect; it does, in fact, depend on the brand of OPK.
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