Ovulation day precisely needed ~ clinic left us on our own

[WaitingforGabriel]

Our fertility clinic is on a loooong xmas and new year holiday. Normally they should be doing daily ultrasound in order to decide for the next transfer date and since they don't do that, they asked me to use ovulation tests 10:00 am and 10:00 pm everyday. If I see myself ovulating, I should inject ovitrelle (stimulation).

1- Isn't 10:00am and 10:00pm timing is weird? I wake up at 5:00am and until 10:00am my urine becomes so much diluted. I assumed that I should have been using the first pee sample in the morning.

2- Do you think I will be able to figure out the exact ovulation date with the silly sticks on my own?

[Fruitandflowers]

Neither of my clinics (NHS and private) have done or offered scans for ovulation, maybe it's because they go off period day 1s to schedule everything and it's all been medicated so ovulation is really relevant. But I was due to have a natural FET earlier this year and all they asked was for me to use ovulation test sticks. I've always found the test sticks accurate and easiest are the CB ones which give a flashing smiley a couple of days before you get the main surge so you could try those (expensive but means you're not trying to compare lines)? Other ways to tell are charting BBT and mucus but I found that much harder.

[Twiglet2]

my clinic dont offer scans for ovulation on natural cycles so we just use ovulation tests at home. they tell us which date to start testing for ovulation and then I do it once a day until we get the flashing smiley and then I did morning and night until solid smiley. They do then normally get us in for a blood test that day to double check but if they were closed or when I e got it at night then they would go with that day of solid smiley. I did it when I woke up though so yeah I think as long as 12 hours apart it should fine if say 8am and 8pm worked better for you maybe they are just trying to make sure they catch it before noon or before bed xx

[SS81]

evening. I’m in the same situation.. how are you getting on? I HATE ovulation tests. I’ve only got the strips and am stressing every morning and night if the line is dark enough 🤦🏽‍♀️ wish I’d bought CB tests.. I’ve been doing them since Saturday and driving myself insane. I had a scan on Tues and hadn’t ovulated.. I’m getting lines now but they aren’t as dark as the control line.. shoot me now! Feel like it’s all resting on me getting these tests right!

[WaitingforGabriel in reply to SS81]

Luckily I found someone to do ultrasound scan otherwise I was missing the ovulation! No I don't think that we can ever precisely know with the home tests 😔

[SS81 in reply to WaitingforGabriel]

I’ve just been for a scan at my clinic.. tests still have a line but not as strong as they say it should be.. however I’ve ovulated between Tuesday and now🤦🏽‍♀️ so they’ve done a blood test to see if they can work out when it happened so that they can work out which day to do the transfer.. why is it never straight forward?! Hope your scan gave you the answers you needed xxx

[WaitingforGabriel in reply to SS81]

With the scan, they roughly predicted that I would ovulate yesterday, thus the fertility clinic made an appointment for the next embryo transfer on next wednesday. They never make detailed examination or be precise about the ovulation date. If I concieve with this clinic it will be a miracle of heavens, not the success of the clinic.

I wish you the best luck too!

[SS81 in reply to WaitingforGabriel]

I will cross everything for you. I feel the same about my clinic to be fair. This is my second FET. Had one transferred at the start of December which ended in a chemical.. that obviously was no fault of the clinic but it’s been a total shambles since I’ve been going through this since august 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

Anyway.. let’s stay positive!! Good luck!!!!!xx

[SS81]

I went today for a scan and bloods and they’ve massively missed my ovulation🤦🏽‍♀️ they don’t know exactly when it happened.. any time between Tues and this morning.. even though I was doing ovulation tests which came back negative.. they said they should have monitored me more regularly and have cancelled the cycle.. so another month goes by😭

[WaitingforGabriel in reply to SS81]

oh my gosh, that is horrible. I am so sorry to hear 😓