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Product Details
- Binding
- Health and Beauty
- Brand
- Clearblue
- Feature
- Typically identifies up to 6 fertile days
- Label
- Clearblue
- Publisher
- Clearblue
- Studio
- Clearblue
- ItemDimensions
- Weight:30
- PackageDimensions
- Height:250
Length:620
Weight:560
Width:320
Editorial Reviews
The Clearblue Fertility Monitor Test Sticks are an essential part of the Clearblue Fertility Monitor. This package contains 30 individually wrapped test sticks which is typically a 3 month supply. The majority of women will need 10 test sticks each cycle. Women with irregular or long cycles may have to use 20 test sticks each cycle.
guessing, and helps you concive a baby natrually.
The advice to order on ebay is fine.. as long as you get sticks that are not expired. I have read in auctions that expired sticks DON'T matter.. It DOES matter if they are expired the readings will not be as percise. This is a serious matter not need to go cheap on the sticks and cost yourself MORE time.
You need to have enough sticks to cover testing for each month from the same pack.. it helps the monitor to give a more percise reading.. It says that in the monitor directions and Customer Service will stress that point as well.
I agree with another poster on here too. You CANNOT read these sticks on your own. I would look to see if I could see a difference after the monitor told me my fertility status.. Couldn't tell.... SO these are JUST for the monitor!!
It did take a few months for it to learn my cycle, so I would tell people to buy it in advance and not expect a result overnight. But it does work.
ps: To the lady who said you cannot reset it, that is not true. I and many other women have. Just do a search online!
Why I choose this product: I'm older and I hoped to not have to try for years. Also, because I have an irregular cycle, I couldn't even begin to guess when I'd ovulate so I figured this would help me take the guess work out. I also didn't want to examine my CM every day to guess. My friend used this and it helped her pinpoint her days and she highly recommended it.
How's it going: I'm glad I'm using it. It does tell me when I'm ovulating and that's what I wanted. It's straightforward and easy to use. My ovulation varies so this is great for knowing when to tell my husband it's game on. I'm not pregnant yet, but think this is a great tool for simplifying the process. I couldn't imagine how women did it before. I did decide to also do basal temperature to compare and find I'm more confident with this monitor. I am a light sleeper and my husband wakes 2 hours before me. I found that my temperatures can vary greatly.
Downside: You have to pee on a stick for 10 days at a time. I can understand the first few times as it "learning" your cycle but don't understand why I have to continue once I've ovulated in a cycle. And if it doesn't detect an ovulation, you have to pee on a stick for 20 days (which I did a couple of months ago). I will say peeing on sticks has lost it's "fun" factor.
It's working great so far!
1. I have irregular periods. Very irregular periods. The first two months I had to use 20 sticks. After that the monitor learned to request a later start date for peeing on the sticks. And I've only used 10 stick per month for the past two months.
2. I have found it a way easier charting method than using Basal Body Temperatures. Just pee on the stick first thing in the morning, Pop it in the monitor, and you can get ready for the day as it takes about 3-5 minutes to show your result.
3. It's accurate! I have confirmed with my doctor that I am ovulating on the days it says I am.
4. This is the best price on the internet (even ebay auctions usually go for more).
5. The shipping is FAST! Last time I ordered it Sunday afternoon and it arrived Wednesday morning in the mail (no express shipping, just the standard free shipping that is offered).
6. Although the monitor start up costs are pretty pricey (I spent $100). The system only costs about $10-$15 per month (way less expensive than the digital Ovulation Predictor Kits which were costing me $40+ a month)!
Buyer beware...or should I say pee-er beware. Several of the sticks in this box were defective (5 actually... so that's 1/6 of the box!!!)
So, my advice... collect your specimen in a little dixie cup and then test that way... because there is nothing more frustrating than realizing
the stick is defective AFTER your specimen is... shall we say... down the drain.
I was really happy these arrived on time and in their original packaging... and the price was fantastic... unless you consider that 5 of the
sticks were defective... and then, well, I guess you get what you pay for! I just ordered a second set (TTC takes longer than you think it's
going to apparently) but I didn't order them from here because I'm hoping the set I just paid a little bit more for will have 30 working
sticks in the box.
The monitor doesn't always tell you the "high fertility" days if you have an irregular cycle, which doesn't make sense to me. IMO, if the reading is based on hormone levels, you would have the same hormones either earlier or later in your cycle, based on when you're going to ovulate that month. I'm not sure if the machine just "guesses" the high fertility days based on your LH surge or what. Some months I ovulate late, around day 19 or 20 and the machine was asking me to test after my LH surge, making me waste a lot of test strips. I called up the company's toll-free number and told them my issue as I though the machine was broken. The lady told me that the strips work in batches of ten, so if you ovulate late one month and use all 10 strips, it will prompt you for another 10 regardless if ovulation happened or not during the second 10. She told me that once it detects the LH surge, to stop testing for the month. You do not need to continue testing after it detects the LH surge, so don't waste your strips.
I do wonder about the LH surge detection, since conventional ovulation strips say to test in the afternoon or evening because the LH hormone can't be detected very well in the morning. This month, I went straight to LH surge and could have sworn that I ovulated about 12 hours later (it should happen 24-36 hours after detection)I wonder if I did a conventional ovulation test the night before if it would have shown positive.
In summary, I don't think that this machine is all it is cracked up to be, as I think it works more on history stored in the machine vs. what is really going on in your body.
The sticks themselves are individually wrapped and its a little tough to open the protective wrapping. When you open up a stick, the wick is exposed and the lid, which you use to cover the wick when youre done, is on the other end - like a pen cap. Three seconds is all you need, as the instructions state.
I am confident that this system is working and that it understands what is happening to my body each day. It is a really powerful tool and it is fantastic. I think it is much too expensive, however. But I would still insist that a person should buy it. Its that good.
One side note that I was utterly confused about. The first morning after your period starts is the first day according to the test. I found instructions about that really vague. Also, I accidentally wasted a test stick the first day because I was half asleep and the monitor never asked for a test stick. No harm, but just remember it will tell you when it wants you to test and that wont happen for about 5 days.
The monitor itself is easy to use and aids in the planning involved with determining peak fertility.