I do and it seems like I’m in the minority. Too bad, I think, because if more women knew when they were fertile, the less likely unwanted pregnancies would be.
Not only do I get that pain in the side of my lower belly indicative of an ovarian follicle fixin’ to pop, but there’s other stuff too. I will pee a lot, sometimes having to rush to the john more than two times in the middle of the night. My breasts will get bigger. I also produce more mucous down there, too. Fourteen days from the onset of these symptoms, the crimson tide comes. It’s like eiree clockwork. I’m glad that my body lets me know what it’s up to like this.
Am I the only one here that experiences these signs? A good number of women report feeling the same ovarian pain that I feel, but what about the peeing? Am I an anomaly?
Well you pay more attention than most women, that’s for sure!
PMS alway told me when I was ovulating. (Personally, I think it was God’s way of keeping me child-free.) But I had a cyst develop around a fallopian tube, which made me intimately aware of exactly when the tube moves. Then I noticed the other changes you mentioned. Except the peeing. Nope, while I’m ovulating I rarely pee - I think that’s the retaining water part. But once my period starts, ALL that water has to get out fast.
I can pretty much tell now. I’ve been irregular all my life, in my teens and early 20’s I’d go months without a period which caused more than one scare, but I was never pregnant, don’t think I can be, that’s a good thing, don’t want children.
These days it ranges from 30 to 50 some days but my boobs now let me know to keep a watch out and then I have back pain and/or I just know.
When I was younger my sisters used to complain about cramps, I thought they were just trying to get out of chores. In my early-mid 30’s I found out what they were talking about, occasionally they’ll put me down and hard. And I get bad headaches the last 2 or 3 days of my period now.
I think progesterone acts as a diuretic on me. A couple years ago, I was on the pill for a short stint, and let me tell ya, I had to make a trip to the bathroom at least once an hour. No hyperbole. I was peeing a great deal, so much that I was worried that it would be impossible for my to recoup my daily losses without going on IV fluids. This seems like such a major side-effect and yet I’m the only person I know who has experienced it.
Even now that I’m off the pill, I notice diuresis associated with my body’s rising levels of progesterone post-ovulation. The only time I gain water is when my progesterone level dives, thereby inducing the much-hated period.
My ovulation pains were extremely painful last month. I’m talking bout, they were so bad I felt ill. Almost nauseous from all the pain. Normally ovulation pains for me are no more painful than those side-stitches you sometimes get during exercises.
I pee a lot when I’m about to start my period. Normally I don’t have to wake up in the middle of the night to pee but I do during PMS time. I don’t know how this works because I’m also bloated during this time.
I spot sometimes when I’m ovulating. The first time this happened I thought God was punishing me by giving me an extra period during the month. But it’s really not that much blood.
I don’t know. I don’t spot, I don’t cramp, my breasts don’t swell, nada. All of this is before I started with the birth control stuff, mind you. Hell, I could be ovulating right now, for all I know!
And before, when I did, I had no clue (but then I wasn’t clockworky either. I wasn’t wildly sporadic - just potentially slightly off. Sometimes.)
But then, (please don’t hate me) I was more or less blessed by the PMS gods - so, just one minorish symptom that only lasts for a day or so - my body is apparently not very interested in what it might be doing.
I can feel my ovaries twitching out little egglets every now and again - roughly every third or fourth month. I’m regular as clockwork, but whenever I’ve had an “ovary-twitching” incident, I end up with a heavier period.
yes, I do.
breasts get very sensitive.
plus I go off sex for a few days, too.
I think my body completely agrees with my brain on that one, I don’t want kids, you see, and I get in the mood right after and before my period, when the chances of getting preggers are real slim. I go off sex when I’m most fertile…
The best way to tell if you’re ovulating is to do a temperature chart. Take your temp every morning (before you get out of bed) and write down the number. You may experience some minor fluctuations, but your temperature WILL GO UP when you ovulate, because of the progesterone produced by the egg. (Some women experience a drop in temperature right before ovulation.) It’s also an easy way to know you’re pregnant. An egg only “lives” for 14 days, so if your temperature stays elevated for longer than that, congratulations/I’m sorry!!
(My mother-in-law was the fount of all of this - it’s how she knew that she, her sister-in-law, and various other female relatives were pregnant. Here’s a website that’s more detailed http://www.webwomb.com/basal_body_temp.htm )
Yes. It’s hard to describe the discomfort I feel–not quite a cramp, not quite pain, but definitely unpleasant. And I get enough clear, runny mucous that I have to wear a maxipad. My breasts get sort of spongy and tender, and I get horny. And every time I see a baby in public, I can practically hear my primitive brain grunting, “Ugh, baby, must have! Now! Now!”
I think I may be especially fertile. Some months I can feel myself kick out more than one egg. One time, it was four. Oh, God, that was a painful few days.
