How do I know if I'm ovulating?
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the cycle
when do you ovulate?
first understand the cycle
- the ovulatory cycle is placed exaclty or more or less in the middle of your menstrual cycle
- ascertain whether your cycle is 28 days or 30 days or 32 days
- ascertain whether you have two periods
- ascertain whether you have a flow of three days or five days or one day
- ascertain whether you have irregular periods or over or under flow and periods
second chart your cycle
if it is 28 day cycle then you got to shade off the flow region in between the cessation of flow to restart of flow see how many days you have
the ovulation may be more or less in the middle
thirdly understand symptoms and signs of ovulation
- menstruation may give you blues
- ovulation make you glow
- you may be happy charming and have a feel good factor
- the body craves for shelter
- the body basal temperature rises
feel of your cervix
usually feel hard when you are not fertile. When you touch your cervix then, it would feel as hard as the tip of your nose. However, nearer ovulation,
it will feel softer like the lobe of your ear or your lips
cervix position
- Your cervix hangs lower on infertile days
- will rise higher as ovulation approaches.
- its tip is more open on your fertile days.
Detecting Ovulation
- observing increasingly stretchy and "egg white" cervical fluid
- observing a high, soft and open cervix
- ovulation prediction kits (OPKs)
- measuring the presence of estrogen or luteinizing hormone (LH) in urine.
- Charting your basal body temperature (BBT)
what is an anovulatory cycle?
these are normal mestrual cycles but ovulation do not occur
causes of Anovulatory Cycles
too much exercise
- eating disorders,
- hypothalamic dysfunction,
- hyperprolactinemia,
- polycystic ovary syndrome,
- luteal phase defects,
- or tumors of the pituitary gland
- tumours of adrenal gland
- tumour of ovaries.
- primary ovarian failure,
- resistant ovary syndrome
- autoimmune oophoritis
- Premenopause
- Ovulatory dysfunction
- Cortisol .
- Thyroid disorders
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Comments
I have been searching for answers on the web about why ? Do i feel so tired.heavy head glasses eyes achy..when I am ovulating...all i want to dis stay in bed and rest and eat..... Im 50 still have my period and I also have heat feeling off and on...why??









quensday says:
17 months ago
Wow this is really interesting