# Do you know when you ovulate?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 11, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-when-you-ovulate/160651 "2003-03-11T20:38:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-when-you-ovulate/160651/21 "2003-03-12T17:27:15Z")

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Some months I do know when I ovulate by a pain on one side or the other.

Regardless of whether I feel this or not in a given month, I can pretty much identify when I’m ovulating by a couple of factors, the main one being that my sex drive goes through the roof. That’s when the sex dreams kick in, that’s when I start drooling over almost any guy that walks by and so forth.

It makes for a fun week of studying every month, since I study in a room with one wall of windows that looks out into the stacks. I check out every fella that goes by or opens the door. Some day I’ll pounce.

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**Author:** ![IrishRideGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b4bc9f/32.png) [@IrishRideGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrishRideGirl)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-when-you-ovulate/160651/22 "2003-03-12T17:37:51Z")

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I get the ovarian pain when an egg is released and my sex drive goes through the roof during ovulation.

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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-when-you-ovulate/160651/23 "2003-03-12T20:27:27Z")

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> \*Originally posted by you with the face \*  
> \*\*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? \*\*

I always know too. Ovulation is actually a little painful for me, I have a jelly-like discharge and my sex drive also goes way up. This happens about 7 days after my period ends. It’s natures cruel joke that when I’m horniest and wettest I’m also the most fertile.

The signs are so pronounced that I haven’t used birth control in about 15 years. When I wanted to get pregnant with my daughter (almost 12 years ago) it happened on the first try.

That said, I would never advocate not using birth control, I just find that it works for me.

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