What does ovulation feel like?!
Question: although I have read a great book, Taking charge of you fertility, and I am charting, I am starting to learn about my body after being on the pill for 14 yrs (since I was 14, and no not for sex at that age). But can anyone describe ovulation pain has felt like for them. This cycle will be my first off the pill. I mostly just curious
Answers: although I have read a great book, Taking charge of you fertility, and I am charting, I am starting to learn about my body after being on the pill for 14 yrs (since I was 14, and no not for sex at that age). But can anyone describe ovulation pain has felt like for them. This cycle will be my first off the pill. I mostly just curious
I'm 42 and have been feeling myself ovulate since my early 20s. I do not feel it every single month, but most of the time I do. When I first feel it, it is a heavy dull ache on one side or the other, down low, painful enough that sometimes I'll take an Advil. I imagine this is the egg bursting out of the ovary. Then over the next day or so, it is a smaller ache, and I imagine the egg moving down the tube. It alternates sides by month, but over the years, I've noted that I can feel it more when it's on my left side.
Some women say they gets pains or can feel their ovulation, but honestly the only way I know I am ovulating is by changes in discharge. There may be a freak occurance where I get a little cramp, but its rare and generally unnoticable.
I can never tell or feel when i ovulate.
Women don't even know when they are ovulating.
It varies from month to month, with me--most of the time it's an on-again off-again twinge on one side of my lower abdomen. Some months it's more painful than others.
Your body might take more than a month to adjust to being off the hormones--I quit the pill after only 4 years, and I didn't notice the ovulation pains (Mittelschmertz) until a couple of months later.