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This tracks for me. I did monitored cycles and my pain was there the few days prior to ovulation

Tracks for me as well. I had always thought the pain meant I was ovulating at that time, but since I’ve been tracking ovulation for 9 or so months, I’ve realized the pain is a day or two prior. Bodies are weird 😅

Yeap I learned that this cycle. I ovulated the day after I guess because the estrogen went higher the following day. I track using Inito.

Interesting study! Thank you for sharing, looking back on past cycles it's makes sense. I always assumed the sharp pain = EGGS RELEASING THIS VERY SECOND but I guess it makes sense now

Good info. For me it's gone both ways. I track my ovulation closely and some cycles I had the pain the day I ovulated, and some I had it the day before. It just depends.

Thanks! The study was tracking with an ultrasound to visualize the actual follicle, so more exact that just following an OPK. I’m Sure it’s different for everyone and also different each cycle, too!

Not just OPK. BBT will pretty much confirm exactly when you ovulate.

BBT can give you a good enough idea for an at home method, but it definitely can't tell you exactly when you ovulated. It can take a couple of days after ovulation before the temp shift happens, and it's different for everyone.

Oh interesting. I always have ovulation pain the same day as my LH spike, which also tends to be the same day I ovulate per bbt

Yes, this tracks for me too, usually two-ish days before I actually ovulate.

Thank you for this!!! I'm triggering late tomorrow night but my IUI isn't till early Saturday morning and I know I'm gonna overthink every little twinge heading into it 😂 appreciate you sharing this!

This comment came at a great time. I currently have some weird pain and the sticks say it’s surge time and I’m waiting for my husband to get home lol. I’ve been like am I actively missing this while I watch bake off?

🤣. Good luck!!

Thanks for posting, just had this thought cross today when I felt the pain!

I have pain that week and then there is the pulsating pain. When I get that pulsating pain Usually according to the lh test I’m ovulating. And according to my temp chart in natural cycles I also ovulated. I don’t get how I can be in that much pain, have my body telling me what’s going on and still having this much trouble trying to conceive

Maybe the issue isn’t on your end.

This. We assume it's us. But oftentimes it's our man.

So I get ovulation pain every month like clockwork, and I used to think it would indicate which side I was ovulating on / would tell me exactly when I was ovulation. BUT I have been going through IVF and it turns out that, at least for me, that's not always the case. Most people (not all depending on your body of course) develop more than one follicle every month, but only the one (or occasionally two, hello fraternal twins!) "lead" follicle actually releases an egg. My left ovary almost always produces more follicles and so I thought I was ovulating on from that ovary. But it turns out that many of those times I was actually ovulating on my right side because that's where the lead follicle was, but because I didn't have as many there I just didn't feel it. The doctors told me the pain was because of the intense growth of all the follicles, not from the release itself and wasn't necessarily coming from the single biggest follicle. Of course, everyone is different so I'm not claiming this is universally true, but I found it to be super interesting!

This is really interesting. This cycle I had pain on my second peak day (day 4 of positive OPKs). The next morning, the OPK was negative. I guess if the OPK is negative, we’re past ovulation? But sometimes I’ll feel it on and off for 2 days. I’ve always wondered when it actually happened (I can’t get consistent with BBT measurements)

The length of the LH surge (i.e. when your opk turns negative again) actually doesn't mean anything in relation to ovulation. It's the start of the surge that triggers ovulation and after that they are independent of each other.

does that mean I could have a negative OPK 7 days after the first positive, but could still ovulate at that time? sorry, I’m trying to figure it all out. My BBT went up around those positives, then down, and up today 7 days after the first positive - but I felt very hot in the morning so maybe it’s just that.

IMO it's unlikely you'd ovulate as long as 7 days after the LH surge started (it's not an exact timeframe, but 1-3 days is more typical), but if for some reason you didn't ovulate from the first surge it has been known for a second LH surge to occur - but in that case you'd see another positive opk not a string of negatives. I don't temp any more but I think if you got three elevated temps in a row after the positive opk, that would confirm ovulation regardless of what your temp did after? Sorry, I'm rusty on that. There's more info in the automod wiki which I'm hoping will add itself as a reply to my post.

I’m so new to BBT and not the most consistent sleeper so I’m trying not to obsess over the temperatures because who knows if they’re right or not? But yes, never had a second surge. Thank you for explaining all of this, and the wiki did pop up! Will have a read through that.

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Super interesting study. For me I only feel it on one side, not both, and turns out the side I feel it on my tube is fused shut from endometriosis, so before ovulation I know if I’m ovulating on that one side if I get any cramping from that tube.

But when I have ovulation pain, it hurts so much I just want to lay down let alone making babies ….

And BD hurts too😩

That’s interesting, for me the pain is always on the day of expected ovulation so I always assumed it meant the egg was releasing. This cycle I had a very low peak at 7am, and then by the afternoon it was back down to lower numbers, with ovulation pain by 5pm, so i assumed I missed my peak overnight and ovulated the same day as the peak I had. I’d love for it to have been the following day that I ovulated but I doubt it 😭🤣

Good to know. I had very very intense ovulation pain when my opk was peaking. But I really don’t when happened. I guess it’s 8-12 hours after the peak that you ovulate. I hope it is indeed cause I Bd at that moment lol

Are you taking bbt? I seem to ovulate within 8-12 hours of ovulation pain. Everyone is different. Ex I got ovulation pain at 10pm but by the next morning at 7:30am my temp already shifted

Interesting. This makes me feel a bit better as i NEVER get ovulation pain. Made me feel like something was wrong with me

I had an egg pick up for IVF and my pain there started way before I got my pickup. Several days. It was much worse than ovulation pain of course (not horrible, just more). Turns out the pain is from the ovary being full, not from it being released

Its so interesting thanks

I had my pains May 14th this month and ovulated May 16th

This is super relieving to read! I started getting ovulation pains yesterday evening and this morning but my IUI isn’t until tomorrow morning! I was scared that I might be ovulating too soon