[coco1976]

I didn't realize you could look at your saliva to try to get an idea of when you're about to ovulate. Since the ferning is a result of extra salt being retained in your system, I was wondering if there were things you could do accidentally to get a false positive? Any tips from people who have used these before? Anybody do both saliva and urine and felt that one was better than the other? How good of a microscope do you need for this?

[nnclyn]

These tests need to be used after at least 2/3 hours with no drink or food intake. That goes for smoking, brushing your teeth..or even water. Using them after eating/drinking/brushing/smoking will certainly give you a false positive.

Most of the microscopes are the same. These small units can only magnify so much before they begin to distort things. Glass lense, plastic lense. I find they all pretty much give the same results.

Hope this helped

[pinklover]

I recently bought The Ovulation Scope. Since this is my first time trying actually taking my BBT and Testing to see the date that I ovulate I do hope it works.

[Jenny3343]

So long as you haven't had food or drink 3 hrs prior to testing, the result shoulod be accurate. In my experience, I had a few ferns appear one day then the whole microscope was full of ferns the next. This was suppsoed to indicate the start of ovulation - few ferns - with the full fern display being full-on ovulation!!