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It is easy to use, honestly the instruction manual is kinda overwhelming.. BUT it has a lot of required troubleshooting info.. if you get an error on the screen what to do etc.

Basically you set the monitor for whatever time you want to test and every morning you test at that time or two hours around that time.. You pee on a stick click the cap over the pee area and put it in the monitor.. it just SNAPS in place. It reads it then tells you weither you are Low, High or Peak.. VERY Clearly and it’s easy easy easy to follow and read. You don’t have to sit and look at it waiting for a response you can go about getting ready for your day come back and take the stick out and read your status.

I found that it just let’s you know EXACTLY when you should try to conceive. I learned some months you peak and some you don’t and that is just a normal thing..happens sometimes. My Sister-in-law had problems conceiving and she tried it and got pregnant about 3 cycles into using it. I’ve got two friends that have used it as well and both have newborns now. It’s fast and easy.

On a side note.. I have also seen the stresses it puts on couples.. TONIGHT’S THE PEAK NIGHT ETC… Personally I think you should keep “that” info to youself.. don’t want to deal with performance anxiety!! I also found that just making sure during peak and HIGH that you are doing the “baby dance” makes conceiving a higher possibility.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: These monitors CAN NOT be reset. So if you buy one off of ebay or borrow from a friend.. it will still think you are her..with her cycle time and all the other info it learned from her. SO your first month you may find that you are using A LOT of sticks for it to get used to you and figure out when you ovulate. Customer Service told me the first months reading may even be inaccurate with a borrowed monitor.

Also from Checking EVERYWHERE for the best stick deal amazon has just about everyone beat AND they offer free shipping on the sticks!!

Good Luck!

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For those who claim it gave inaccurate readings: did you test EVERY day, because missing a day will yield incorrect readings; are your cycles IRREGULAR, because this product won’t help you if your cycles run over 40 days; and did you perform your test within the proper WINDOW of the day, because, again, if you tested outside of the specific time period your results won’t be accurate. The directions are very specific!!

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The machine is simple and easy to use. I know that it’s expensive and that the cost may be off-putting, but it is certainly cheaper than consultations with fertility specialists. I also have a very demanding job and was not consistent with keeping up with my charting, etc.

This is such a sensitive issue for so many people. I think we need all of the help we can get. Good luck!

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About the machine: You have to program it to start during your period. So, if you buy it in between your cycles, you need to wait until your next period to begin using the monitor, however you can program it up to day 5 on your period, meaning if you buy this and you are anywhere from day 1-5 in your menses, you can program it for whatever day between those five days you are on. If you purchase the monitor and you are on day 3 of your period, the monitor will allow you to program day 3 and start from there. For me I had a bit of trouble figuring out the programming but to be honest Im not that mechanically inclined, but I did eventually get it.

You start testing when the maching tells you to, so you won’t be testing everyday. This helps because it saves $$ on the sticks. You pee on the stick in the morning (first morning urine for best results, as opposed to afternoon urine with OPK’S) at the same time every morning. There is a 3 hour window that is allowed. So if you set your clock for 7am, but you really have to pee at 5:30, you pee at that time so the urine is concentrated. The 3 hour window can go either way- before 7am or after, just as long as its the first urine. The machine will give you either a low, high or peak (with a little egg next to the peak days) reading. The instructions advise you to baby dance on high and peak days.

Now for the cons. Its pricey! The machine itself is expensive, much, much more then OPK’s and the sticks are pricey as well. When you buy the machine it will come with a certain amount of sticks, but then you need to buy refills which can get costly.

Did it work?? For us it worked. I was able to get pregnant the second cycle using this monitor. It showed that I was ovualting on day 10, where I figured I was around days 12-16, so we were way off. With the new found knowledge of when I was actually ovualting we got pregnant with our little boy.