How soon after the egg is released does progesterone enter your blood******?

[missnic825]

Just wondered how quickly progesterone enters the blood****** after the egg is released at ovulation? According to OPK and chart so far, I'm pretty sure I O'ed on Tuesday (2 days ago). At one point in the evening, I started feeling hotter, and my skin felt much hotter to the touch. Then when I checked cervix position next time I went to the restroom, my cervix had dropped (earlier it was very high). Sure enough, the next morning, my temp had gone up 0.6 degrees. So I'm just wondering, would my cp and temp have responded quickly after the egg was released, or is there a lag time of sorts, meaning I had actually probably ovulated hours earlier and it just took some time for my body to respond? I am partly asking because my bd sessions were the night before, and I'm some what worried that if it happened very early in the day the attempts may have been too late. I am also just genuinely curious. I tried researching it but didn't find any real answers. Thank you!

[ksmom]

Temps usually go up within 12-24 after ovulation occurs provided your BBT is being recorded accurately (sometimes temps have a slow rise over a few days, making ovulation harder to detect). You're saying you DTD the day before your suspected date of ovulation? If that's the case then you have a good chance. Sperm can take several hours to capacitate depending on conditions so even if you ovulated the morning after BD, you still have a chance. There's no telling exactly how long your body will take to respond to the post-ovulation hormones because everyone's body is different. I can't quantify it with certainty. Some people have their cm dry up and their cervix return to a low position within hours of ovulation while others take a day or two. I wouldn't worry too much about it. What's done is done and you at least got in an attempt. Good luck!

[missnic825]

Thank you ksmom. That makes sense that it would vary from person to person. I forgot to mention this part, but since my cm also went from being very clear and slippery early in the day to dried up that night, I am thinking that does mean o sometime that day (next day after bd). I am trying to take solace that this would be the most likely scenario since all those signs concurred, but of course the obsessive side that can come up when you are ttc after several months always finds something to "negative Nancy" my hopes with. And honestly we had, ahem, several attempts that day (he was out of town the days prior so O-1 was the only day we could.....so we made the best of it). I figured by O day it was too late so we didn't attempt. I know multiple attempts in one day don't help much since subsequent ejaculations aren't going to have as many sperm but since that was the only day we'd be able to try I figured that first release was going to be the same either way so I didn't see how more afterward would hurt (I figured even the little bit extra couldn't hurt and might even help a little bit).

[atomic sagebrush]

It varies by individual, by month.

In terms of when your cervix/temp/cm change, this too varies (and even more widely than when prog rises) These things are caused not by the egg being releeased or not, but by estrogen. So if you've made a lot of estrogen and/or your body takes time to clear it (since estrogen drops after O), it can mean that you have still got symptoms after O because there's still some estrogen.