Convenient Fertility Analysis With an Ovulation Detector and Fertility Monitor Test Sticks
Sometimes just going off the pill and waiting for nature to take over, is not enough to conceive.
If you are like me, you probably thought it would take a month or two and you would be pregnant.
Unfortunately, that is not always how it works.
There are many methods out there for tracking your fertility.
I think I have tried them all.
The old standard was to measure your basal body temperature to determine when your LH surge occurred.
This involves taking your temperature with a basal body thermometer each morning before you get out of bed.
On the day of ovulation, your temperature will be slightly higher than it was before.
This method works for many people who are trying to establish a history of their cycles.
While it may help you conceive if you have a regular and predictable cycle, it does not tell you when ovulation is about to occur.
It only tells you that ovulation has occurred.
Unfortunately, the best time to have intercourse to conceive is in the days leading up to ovulation.
Another method for monitoring your fertility is to monitor your cervical mucus.
When your cervical mucus is thin and slippery like egg whites, you are going to ovulate soon.
It may however only indicate that you have ovulated, which leaves you in the same boat as the basal body temperature method.
After I had spent months using both of the above-mentioned methods, I decided to purchase ovulation predictor tests.
I started with the low-end tests, thinking there was no reason to spend a bunch of money on test sticks I was just going to throw away.
While the tests did show me that I was about to ovulate, it took several cycles for me to really figure out how to read the results.
Also, some of the tests were old or very temperamental, which would produce inaccurate results.
So, I finally took the plunge and purchased a top-notch fertility monitor.
The entire package is worth every penny.
The monitor removes the need to interpret test results.
And, it is approved under most medical flexible spending accounts.
My favorite part about the monitor is the test sticks.
While many brands will sell you a canister of test sticks bundled together so that the sticks touch each other, the kind I got had individually wrapped test sticks making it easy to maintain the quality of each test.
The test sticks can either be held directly in your urine stream or be submerged into a sample.
After you have sufficiently doused the test stick, you remove the cap and place it on the specimen end of the stick.
The test stick snaps into place easily and the monitor does the rest of the work for you.
They also provided a helpline that can walk you through printing out your fertility charts for when you go to your next gynecologist visit.
While there is no guaranteed success of conception with any product, a fertility monitor and easy-to-use test sticks make fertility charting simple and effective.
If you are like me, you probably thought it would take a month or two and you would be pregnant.
Unfortunately, that is not always how it works.
There are many methods out there for tracking your fertility.
I think I have tried them all.
The old standard was to measure your basal body temperature to determine when your LH surge occurred.
This involves taking your temperature with a basal body thermometer each morning before you get out of bed.
On the day of ovulation, your temperature will be slightly higher than it was before.
This method works for many people who are trying to establish a history of their cycles.
While it may help you conceive if you have a regular and predictable cycle, it does not tell you when ovulation is about to occur.
It only tells you that ovulation has occurred.
Unfortunately, the best time to have intercourse to conceive is in the days leading up to ovulation.
Another method for monitoring your fertility is to monitor your cervical mucus.
When your cervical mucus is thin and slippery like egg whites, you are going to ovulate soon.
It may however only indicate that you have ovulated, which leaves you in the same boat as the basal body temperature method.
After I had spent months using both of the above-mentioned methods, I decided to purchase ovulation predictor tests.
I started with the low-end tests, thinking there was no reason to spend a bunch of money on test sticks I was just going to throw away.
While the tests did show me that I was about to ovulate, it took several cycles for me to really figure out how to read the results.
Also, some of the tests were old or very temperamental, which would produce inaccurate results.
So, I finally took the plunge and purchased a top-notch fertility monitor.
The entire package is worth every penny.
The monitor removes the need to interpret test results.
And, it is approved under most medical flexible spending accounts.
My favorite part about the monitor is the test sticks.
While many brands will sell you a canister of test sticks bundled together so that the sticks touch each other, the kind I got had individually wrapped test sticks making it easy to maintain the quality of each test.
The test sticks can either be held directly in your urine stream or be submerged into a sample.
After you have sufficiently doused the test stick, you remove the cap and place it on the specimen end of the stick.
The test stick snaps into place easily and the monitor does the rest of the work for you.
They also provided a helpline that can walk you through printing out your fertility charts for when you go to your next gynecologist visit.
While there is no guaranteed success of conception with any product, a fertility monitor and easy-to-use test sticks make fertility charting simple and effective.
