Please reassure me - right vs left ovary

[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.