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Are Ovulation Sticks Reliable?
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Just a little advice please. My husband and i have decided to try for another baby. I took my last contraceptive pill on 13th October, bled and had my usual withdrawal bleed. I decided to use Ovulation sticks to work out when i am ovulating as would like to wait for the pill to be out of my system before trying. We had sex on 22nd and i used the ovulation stick that afternoon, it showed positive. Could i be pregnant? Never used the sticks before, are they reliable? i started to bleed lastnight and have had terrible cramps?
Sorry little confused, cant remember what happened when i came of the pill last time and conceived our little boy.
Many thanks Jan
Just a little advice please. My husband and i have decided to try for another baby. I took my last contraceptive pill on 13th October, bled and had my usual withdrawal bleed. I decided to use Ovulation sticks to work out when i am ovulating as would like to wait for the pill to be out of my system before trying. We had sex on 22nd and i used the ovulation stick that afternoon, it showed positive. Could i be pregnant? Never used the sticks before, are they reliable? i started to bleed lastnight and have had terrible cramps?
Sorry little confused, cant remember what happened when i came of the pill last time and conceived our little boy.
Many thanks Jan
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Hello,
You should stop taking contraceptive pill if you want to get pregnant and ovulation test kits are reliable up to 99 % for detecting ovulation but it detect LH surge. It will give you an idea that ovulation is going to occur in a day or two. You can go for TVS and see whether rupture occurred or not.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Sheetal Agarwal
You should stop taking contraceptive pill if you want to get pregnant and ovulation test kits are reliable up to 99 % for detecting ovulation but it detect LH surge. It will give you an idea that ovulation is going to occur in a day or two. You can go for TVS and see whether rupture occurred or not.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Sheetal Agarwal
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