OPK help! Is this positive?

[sarahkristin]

Please help! I ran out of the Clearblue digital brand so I switched to the Answer brand and I have no experience with them. I've read that more than 50% of the line has to be dark, so I'm not sure if my test is positive. I need an expert's opinion! I am getting sick of seeing negative results since I have been testing since cd 10. Bleh.

Top is answer brand, bottom is Clearblue. This is cd20, FMU. I have one clearblue digital left, and I'd like to save it until I am sure sure that the answer brand is positive so I can compare.

Hopefully the link works. I have very little experience with photobucket and for some reason, ff is not letting me upload my picture.

Thanks in advance! You guys are awesome.

[karmab]

it looks to me like the clearblue is not quite positive, but the top one is positive. it could be the answers are a little more sensitive than the clearblues, and that's why.


edit: i looked it up on peeonastick.com. actually, it says the clearblues detect 30, the answer dipsticks 40. but you know it can vary from batch to batch.

if it were me, i'd check one late afternoon. but really, with one positive one and another almost pos, i'd consider it's probably for practical purposes, positive- and so for me, i would look to o about 36 hrs from then, and then just watch my temp/cm/cp to confirm it.

if there's a next cycle- you can get really cheap opks online, did you know? like 30 cents each, and they work great.

[mama2toomany]

The answer one looks positive to me.. I don't think so on the CB, If it was a HPT I would say its unreliable.

I have never used a blue dye OPK so I have no idea.

I would trust the Answer before the CBE

[splath]

I agree that the top one looks positive, but the bottom one not (but with hpts I don't trust blue dye, so not sure on opks).

[sarahkristin]

Thanks for the replies. I am definitely going to test again in 2 hours (if I can hold it long enough!) And Karma, I'm going to buy the ic's IF there is a next cycle, but hopefully there isn't.

[karmab]

sarah- you dont have to hold it. they say that so that if you are making the quantity of urine where you can t hold it for 4 hours, it will be too dilute to give you an accurate result. but the actual act of holding it doesnt do anything to concentrate your urine or anything else.

[sarahkristin]

WHAT?! I've been holding it for 4 hours all this time for nothing?!?! I read on one of the inserts that you need to wait 4 hours and not drink anything for the last 2 hours. So I don't have to wait at all?

[karmab]

correct. you dont have to hold it 5 mins. what i do is when i'm waiting on a pos opk and thinking it's gonna be coming soon, i will pee in a cup everytime i go. then, if it's light color, i dump it. if it's normal to dark, then i dip it. it ends up i might go 3 or 4 times between like 10 am and 8 pm testing hours, and i test it like 2 or 3 times if i really think it's about to go positive.