Ava Bracelet

[Sarah_a_2018]

I’m thinking about buying the Ava bracelet to track my cycle, I’ve only ever had one positive OPK and it wasn’t in sync with fertile mucus or BBT so I stopped doing them because they stressed me out. I’ve read good things about the Ava bracelet and would probably favour it over ovusense but with a £300 price tag I’m a bit wary of spending so much money on something that doesn’t work - but if it does it’ll potentially save us another round of what will be self funded IVF and the heartache that comes with it especially if we don’t need it as we’re unexplained infertility so no reason why it can’t happen naturally if we keep trying for a natural BFP and hopefully with a better understanding of how my cycle is

Anyone had any success with this or any sort of fertility trackers? Thanks 😁 xx

[Itsallinthehips]

My friend has it and loves it I want it! You can do the option for £150 but you don’t get the lifetime membership or a guarantee or your money back in full if your not pregnant within a year as they are that confident you will.

If I had £300 I would buy it in an instance lol x

[Sarah_a_2018 in reply to Itsallinthehips]

Thanks 😊 I am thinking that it’s probably worth the one off payment and there’s plenty discount codes that’ll give me £20 off lol just trying to persuade hubby that it might actually help x

[Itsallinthehips in reply to Sarah_a_2018]

Just tell him if you don’t get pregnant that year you get all your money back lol. For that to work you have to make sure you literally use it every night as instructed but it does help track everything so much better as it looks at so much stuff x

[Gemz29]

Thanks for your post, I’m just looking at this now, do you know how much you have to wear it??? Xx

[Sarah_a_2018 in reply to Gemz29]

Gemz29 the Ava bracelet you wear while you sleep and then it downloads the data to your phone, you wear it every night when using for fertility and cycle tracking. The Ava uses multiple algorithms to map your cycle not just your bbt, it measures your skin temp, pulse, how you’re breathing while you sleep, from what I read it takes 2-3 cycles for it to accurately give you your exact fertile window but it looks a lot more appealing than the ovusense that you insert like a tampon and it only measures your temperature and then you stop using after you ovulate, with the Ava you wear it every night until you’re pregnant and then you can use it for pregnancy and it works like a Fitbit x

[Gemz29 in reply to Sarah_a_2018]

I’m looking at the 1 year guarantee side of it, t&c’s lol, just want to make sure I would mess up the money back side in anyway😬 xx

[Sarah_a_2018 in reply to Gemz29]

Yeah I’ll need to look into that as well - we have a frozen embryo and we’re hoping to transfer round about October time, don’t know whether to keep the embryo and take a chance on a natural pregnancy for the next 12 months or we do the embryo transfer and then keep trying naturally if it doesn’t work. I know from what I’ve read that you need to be using the bracelet consistently for 12 consecutive months or you wouldn’t get the refund- but then if it didn’t work for me or couldn’t get a refund can always sell it on - even if I didn’t get all my money back its probably still cheaper than shelling out for monthly supplies of OPk’s pregnancy tests etc when you add up what that would cost over the next 12 months xx

[Gemz29 in reply to Sarah_a_2018]

Ye I think I’m going to go for the money back in 12 months if it don’t work, I’ve sent an email for t&c prior to check before I order. Then either way will work out ok, £300 back in 12 months, or 🤞🏻 to a pregnancy & then sell on eBay 😊 xx

[Sarah_a_2018 in reply to Gemz29]

Good luck with it! I’m going to order, AF is on her way so if I get it ordered in the next few days I should get it in time to start from next cycle xx

[Itsallinthehips in reply to Sarah_a_2018]

I would order ASAP if you start from CD 1 you get more information and then you don’t have to wait xx

[Gemz29 in reply to Itsallinthehips]

I’m day 2 of AF so think I will have missed this month anyway x

[Itsallinthehips in reply to Gemz29]

Yeah wait until your a week away from next af (unless you convince this month🤞) xx

[Hanneesweedie in reply to Gemz29]

I think I read somewhere that you need to be wearing it for about 3-4 hours or sleep? But that could have been something else

[Itsallinthehips in reply to Hanneesweedie]

Yeah you need to wear it overnight when you sleep and you need 4 hours solid sleep at least for it to get an accurate reading. It does work so well and people sell them on for 250 on eBay second hand so if you didn’t like it you could do that.

My friend still does opks as well just to confirm as Ava is skin temp but as it uses everything it’s so much more precise than anything else out there and it looks good and you can wear it during pregnancy and even after if you want

[AJJ123]

I was looking at this a few months back. I seem to regularly get positive opks, however never ‘catch’ I don’t know really what the issue is.

I would like to know if you buy it how you get on with it.

I decided not to buy because I don’t think ovulation is the issue - infact unless I know which ovary is ovulating and how quickly the egg travels through that tube vs the other and how fast the sperm swims and where each are at that precise moment I’ll never calculate it! xx

[Sarah_a_2018]

It’ll be interesting to know what it can tell you about your body and cycle while using it, I read someone had used it and helped her to get diagnosed with low progesterone so got prescribed cyclogest and got pregnant, I know from my last set of fertility bloods my progesterone was low but my GP didn’t even take notice and said it was enough to show i’d Ovulated and i don’t even make it through the tww before I start bleeding so I think I have either progesterone or implantation issues. I’m going to ask about an ERA when we see the consultant next month - the ERA tests uterine receptivity but it also tests NK cells and progesterone xx

[Ropa19 in reply to Sarah_a_2018]

Hi Sarah, I think I have the same issues so I’ll be interested in hearing what they say at your next appointment! We have one nhs funded cycle left but after 3 failed transfers with top quality embryos i feel it’s def an implantation problem I have and my temperature is also really low which my acupuncturist says could be due to low level progesterone. She told me about a clinic in Greece that offers the immunology testing for NK cells etc which gives a free consultation and seems so much cheaper than clinics that offer it in this country so we are considering that before our next round xx

[Sarah_a_2018 in reply to Ropa19]

Ropa19 will be happy to give an update once we’ve seen the consultant next month, we only had 2 funded cycles, first gave us only 1 early blastocyst at day 5 and second round we had a 5AB embryo transferred and we have a frozen 3AB but I don’t want it transferred until they’ve covered every avenue. I get that it’s not feasible to diagnose every case of unexplained infertility but what if the reason we’re not getting pregnant is why neither natural or assisted conception will work, I just want answers or confirmation that my body is receptive. We may need another IVF cycle that we will need to pay for and I’m just not willing to go through another IVF cycle emotionally and financially without answers or something that they can and need to do that’s been missed to give us a better chance. Can you PM me the name of the clinic in Greece? Might look into that xx

[HollyT7]

I've had it and it's pretty good at getti g your cycle, mine used to be 1 or 2 days out. I lost mine in an airport and wouldn't get one again as it made me even more obsessive even when I was near ovulation. I preferred the clear blue dual hormone opks. At least they gave me a break rather than uploading, wearing and obsessing ever single day, x

[Itsallinthehips in reply to HollyT7]

Do you not track bbt along side to confirm then? X

[HollyT7]

No it sends all your data to wherever and works or out via algorithms. I just found myself getting even more consumed by the whole process x

[Gemz29 in reply to HollyT7]

Hi holly, I know you have to wear the bracelet at night but would you mind explaining what you then have to do for it to work? Thanks x

[HollyT7 in reply to Gemz29]

You just link it up to your phone when you wake up. I found myself comparing every single difference and when I didn't see any kind of peak it got me down and when I could see my cycle was looking like af was coming it was depressing every month. Medication and health issues can also affect the results to so going through treatment I wouldn't have been using it x

[Gemz29 in reply to HollyT7]

Thanks, so it’s a daily thing you have to update? I’m not sure what to do, but think it’s best I do the money back option, so least I have the reassurance that I can send it back in 12 months x

[Itsallinthehips in reply to Gemz29]

No you only wear it at night time. The information as long as you read into everything will make sense. However if you have cycles you don’t ovulate or really long cycles or PCOS and things like that it doesn’t work as well. The ovisense one is just a no lol

At the moment I use bbt thermometer and fitness tracker and combine then and it’s kinda a cheap version of Ava just you gotta put the data into your phone yourself

[Gemz29]

I’m just using a app called glow at the minute but doesn’t really tell me much, I’ve emailed my questions, hopefully get a reply tomorrow, then put the order in x