It’s not very often that J says something dumb pertaining to infertility. He’s generally very supportive and knows when to speak and when to just hold me. Last night, was not one of those times. I am on cd 10 and was running low on opk’s. We had to stop and return stuff at Walmart so I figured I might as well pick some up while we were there. Now, I personally like the easy to read, smiley face opk’s. Sure, they’re a little expensive, but worth it to me. After we rang them up (we were in self-checkout), J says, “what do we even need them for? We can do it without them.”. Ummm, no, no we cannot! We haven’t even been able to get pregnant with a u/s, trigger shot, and putting the sperm right up there!!!! I compromised and didn’t buy them last month because he wanted a “relaxing” month of trying. Then I was paranoid because I didn’t know for sure when I was going to ovulate. This month, we’re doing it my way! I told him to never tell an infertile woman she doesn’t need opk’s and to be happy that I tend to wait for AF to show up instead of buying hpt’s. 🙂
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Opks never work for me because of long cycles and I don’t always ovulate (pcos) but for some strange reason I did buy them today. 🙂
And that is why I just order OPKs in bulk on Amazon (or used to – pre-IUI & pre-IVF). No one’s giving me the strange looks of “aren’t you a little bit too old for those?”, plus my hubby doesn’t need to wonder why we’re even spending money on them.. and he might, because men – as supportive as they can be – sometimes fire out something very insensitive before thinking it through.
The only problem is – you kind of need to remember you’re running out, in advance.. 😉
We dont use OPK’s, but I agree – the ones with the smiley faces are better 🙂