Please reassure me - right vs left ovary

[calico]

It doesn't matter which ovary releases the egg right?! An egg from the right can implant on the left (ramzi method), yes? I just read a study that claims more pregnancies occur from a right ovary egg and I'm hoping/assuming that it could result in either gender/sex.

[atomic sagebrush]

It may matter (right ovulations may make slightly more boys, left may make slightly more girls) but there are still tons of opposites and PLEASE do not stress about this whatsoever.

And if you are stressing about it because you felt pains on one side or the other, this does not mean anything whatsoever. You can feel ovulation pains and cramping in early pg anywhere and it does not indicate anything about what side you ovulated from or where baby implants.

[Mrsandmama]

I have two boys. Eldest came from the left and youngest from the right- confirmed by ultrasound (the corpus luteum cyst). My eldest implanted on the left and my youngest on the right. I personally don't put too much thought into Ramzi.

[calico]

Thank you for replying. Nothing I can do now but I'm worried. Got 'pregnant' on my digi hpt this morning at 12dpo. Now I'm rethinking and obsessing about the attempt and pains I thought i felt on my right when I likely ovulated (other months on my left side). Guess I'll see if I can in 6 wks at my first ultrasound.

[atomic sagebrush]

I promise you that pains do not indicate the side you ovulated on!!! Really really.

[oops01]

Oh really! one more thing to worry about :( I ovulated from left ovary this month (shown on U/s) but didn't try as I started stressing about other sway factors - was going to attempt next month but does that mean I will ovulate from right? (does it alternmate each month)? I am driving myself crazy with all this. I have clomid at home which I have read so much about swaying a girl but I don't really want to take it. I was given FAlse unicorn root to take instead by a hormone doc who said it has similar follicle stimulating effect - have you heard of this?

So confused :(


It may matter (right ovulations may make slightly more boys, left may make slightly more girls) but there are still tons of opposites and PLEASE do not stress about this whatsoever.

And if you are stressing about it because you felt pains on one side or the other, this does not mean anything whatsoever. You can feel ovulation pains and cramping in early pg anywhere and it does not indicate anything about what side you ovulated from or where baby implants.

[dloui128]

I ovulated from the left and implanted on the left, verified by u/s and I had a boy, I wouldn't worry too much about this

[maidentomother]

I've never heard about this L/R correlation! However, my father who is a retired OBGYN has observed that many women, probably 60% or so, ovulate primarily from one ovary. But even women who ovulate nearly always from one, can and do still ovulate from the other one on occasion. Of course plenty of women alternate ovaries for the most part, but not in a perfect pattern, I.e. you can't predict which side you'll ovulate from if you alternate.

In my case, all six of my pregnancies I Oed on the right, and to my knowledge I've only Oed on the left 3 times, starting last year. The first time I observed a left ovulation was during my 6th pg, my only twins (left egg was girl, right was boy). These were all u/s confirmed except for pg #3.

I'm going to have to disagree about O pains not being indicative of actual O, but I'll do so in that thread where it belongs...

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks for info on ovaries, very helpful.

We'll have to agree to disagree on the O pains, because even if there are a few people who can use O pains to pinpoint ovulation precisely, the 99.99% of other people out there cannot and it causes them nothign but frustration and trouble. So if you are in the minority that can use O pains, I believe you and that's great, but please no one else rely on them because for most people they don't mean a darn thing. :)

[maidentomother]

I really wish I could ask my dad about swaying or any significant sex ratio trends he noticed during his career, but he has Alzheimer's quite badly now and I rarely talk to him anymore. My mom is also a pregnancy expert, with a focus on prenatal exercise and diet, so I bet she has some interesting observations. Unfortunately I no longer keep in touch with her because we don't get along. I'm considering reading through her books to see if she discusses sex selection, though, because it seems very much like a topic she would be interested in. Such a shame I can't pick both their brains anymore!

Re: O pain, I agree that not every woman, probably not even most women, can reliably predict O based on pain. But I do know that it is possible for some women. I wonder if my freakish innervation (I have 3x the 'normal' number of nerves in my peripheral nervous system) explains why I'm so sensitive. Maybe that's common in hyper-sensitive women? Of course, most people don't know if they are under- or over-innervated, but it frequently (though not always) correlates with sensitivity to pain. I wonder if women who experience O pain typically have painful menstrual cramps? If so, I suspect some degree of hyper-innervation.

Oh, how I wish more research was put into women's health issues!

[atomic sagebrush]

i can't speak for anyone else of course, but I have debilitating ovulation pains for a solid week-10 days at ovulation (have no clue about actual moment of ovulation, I get them before, during, and after ovulation) but not cramps with AF. and I would say I have higher than normal pain tolerance and have had 3 unmedicated births. It is interesting to hear everyone's experiences!! I def. agree we need more research into women's health issues!! :)

[Trishy74]

I have noticed that when I ovulate on my left side that I could totally feel it happening. Do uncomfortable and then comes my monthly ovulation migraine which is intense! I have noticed that my left ovary produces a lot more cm before I get my pos opk whereas with my right side I don't get too much cm before and I don't get bad ovulation pains like my left side. Also I don't get bad period cramps. I get more bloating and slight discomfort but not actual cramping. And I get these symptoms like an hour before AF shows. And back to the left side ovulation pains they are strong and don't last too long. But I always tske Tylenol or something if they are unbearable. I know I ovukated from my left ovary last month as it was confirmed by corpus luteum and it coincided with the pain I had previously a few days prior to prove it. I strongly believe when I conceived my son it was my left ovary bc I remember being at the mall 2 days after my pos opk and having to stop walking dead in my tracks bc the pain was a sudden sharp pain and all of a sudden. That sticks out in my mind a lot. So that's why I believe I conceived with my left ovary. I believe not so sure how true this is bit I think my left ovary def has a stronger ovulation than my right. However this month I believe I ovukated from my right and am now about 8 or 9 dpo and my temps dipped but I keep feeling this weird fullness and twinge sensations in that ovary. Hoping its implantation but an worried bc urologist started me on levaquin a few days ago bc she thinks I still have uti and it was resistant to macrobid last month. As much as I'd love to see a bfp this month I hate thinking I'm taking such a strong antibiotic with a possible pregnancy. K just wanted to share my experience about ovulation pains and little to no period cramping just bloating which I can predict AF an hour before it starts and to let you know I am like 95% sure my son was conceived with left ovulation.

Hope you get your girl op.

[maidentomother]

Thanks for sharing! Out goes my hyper sensitivity theory! I am quite surprised you can have O pain without menstrual cramps, but then I wouldn't wish my cramps on ANYONE.

I am in awe of anyone who has given birth naturally. I would like to but I'm not betting on it. In general women have a higher tolerance for pain relative to men and I do believe it. Giving birth takes courage, and most women do so more than once. You ladies are amazing!

[atomic sagebrush]

Here's the thing though, and I hope everyone understands that I'm not trying to discount anybody's experiences or anything like that but I just need to keep things as accurate as possible, is that unless you have an ultrasound every single month you really cannot know what side you ovulate from.

15-20 eggs develop in each ovary every single month (let alone for people with PCO) and only the best one or two is ovulated. Ovulation can actually relieve pain for some ovulations (kinda like popping a really painful zit LOL). The follicular fluid released along with the egg can hit other internal organs and cause pain. Both Fallopian tubes cramp every month, to move any eggs present down to the uterus, and your whole entire uterus can get sore and bloated due to the thick lining that is growing. Not to mention that your cervix swells, softens, and opens around O and that can cause pain. And the inside of the human body is kind of a weird thing where you can feel pain referred to other places, such as ectopic pregnancy can cause pain felt in the shoulder and stuff like that. Ovarian tumors can be huge and yet they are often asymptomatic so I simply do not believe that the ovary is in any way a very sensitive pain-detecting organ.

So even if you have an occasional side of ovulation that happens to coincide with some ultrasound that you had, it doesn't mean that is always and forever going to mean that whenever you feel any pain around ovulation that it means you ovulated from a particular side. It may have been totally coincidental, or even if it worked that one month and you did feel O pain, it may be meaningless for future months.

If you look up "Zanacal" she was one of our earliest swayers and was totally convinced she Oed from the right on the basis of where she felt O pain and she Oed from the left.

[calico]

I just wanted to follow up and confirm that I did ovulate from right ovary as I suspected. I had my 8wk ultrasound and the tech pointed it out. But she couldn't tell me where the placenta was (she didn't think it formed yet, still had the sac) or where it attached only that the head was on my left side at this point.