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elainee

09-05-2008, 05:09 AM

Hi Ladies,

What's the the difference between the fertility monitors and the ovulation predictor kits?

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09-05-2008, 10:38 PM

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justwondering05

09-11-2008, 05:45 PM

I believe fertility monitors track your whole cycle, so you test everyday and it will tell you low/medium/or high chance of becoming pregnant. The prediction (I believe) is a one time test that tells you if you are ovulating or not (more like yes or no rather than low/medium/high)

elainee

09-12-2008, 01:20 PM

Thanks gusy,

I'd love to get one, but can't justify spending the €149. I just haven't got the money right now, think I'll stick to my digital OPK, that's expensive enough at €37 per month. Maybe if I'm unsuccessful the next two cycles then I'll invest x

justwondering05

09-13-2008, 01:20 PM

Yes it does, I don't know how much OPK cost but the clear blue monitor is around $200 and then you have to buy the strips! The strips cost about $40 every month the first 3 months (since you are testing everyday) then about the 4th month you start test every 10 days or so and it levels out to $40 every three months. (About $13 a month) Honestly, we already had a monitor because I got off the BC pill and decided we didn't want to use condoms all the time....my sister-in-law uses it for BC so we decided to just do that (DH did NOT want children at this point in time..about a year ago) Well, over time I ran out of strips and just didn't get around to buying more (DH didn't care as much and thought $40 was a lot of money if you don't really care about getting pregnant) and so I have to actually start BACK on it....he has convinced me to give it 2 more months (including this cycle) before I run out and buy the strips for it....anyways.....so yeah the moniter definately costs more.

marci537

09-13-2008, 03:48 PM

I absolutely LOVE the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor since it is easy to use and is "dummy proof" in determining peak ovluation days. It takes about 1/3 of the box each month, but you only test on days it asks for a specimen. I just received a BFP this morning on my second month of TTC #2, and I also got pregnant with my daughter (who is now 3 years old) on the second month using this monitor. The only month I used the OPK it never registered O since my cycles was 33-35 days on average. The nice thing about CBFMonitor is it not only measures LH surge (for ovulation), but also identifies a few "High" days prior based on estrogen levels. I absolutely recommend it to know for certain that ovulation is occuring each month.

elainee

09-14-2008, 07:11 AM

Thanks everyone for the replies, I just got my digital OPK for this month yesterday at €30, so if I'm not successful this cycle, I think I'll buy the monitor, I mean over the past three months I've spent about €100 anyway on the OPK's.

Thanks and Congratus again Marci xx