Originally Posted by
atomic sagebrush
Not really. If you ovulate, you will get a period about 10-14 days later, and if you haven't ovulated you will not get a true period.
Now, what can happen is that sometimes women can have something called a breakthrough bleed, which happens in a cycle where you don't ovulate, and your estrogen drops so much that the uterine lining comes off even without ovulation happening. This can seem very much like a period, but it isn't one really.
Sometimes, when people are not ovulating at all, they can mistake breakthrough bleeds for a period, and so they may go on a while thinking they are ovulating but they can't get pregnant. Typically, this would not be a regular cycle, and people might have long and short cycles interspersed, the "flow" might not be like a regular period. It is VERY VERY rare, as in I've only ever seen it happen once, that a person would have a 28 day cycle with a breakthrough bleed happening at the exact time as an "average" cycle. To be honest, I actually have my doubts that this EVER happened, as the doctor told her it was "always happening" but had only ever tested her for ovulation in one month. She was probably ovulating and getting her period regularly and just hadn't that month.
That's the background info - as for your OWN personal situation, I think what you are asking me is "if my period comes on CD 28, and I still haven't gotten a positive OPK yet, does that mean that I will have a month where I don't ovulate and have my period". What will happen, if your ovulation is delayed, is that your luteal phase and period will simply get tacked onto that. So if you ovulate CD 21, for example, then you'd get your period CD 35. If you ovulate late, your period will generally move later too.
A few times - rarely, though not as rare as someone always having a breakthrough bleed on CD 28 - we'll see a person who has delayed ovulation AND a short LP that happen at the same time. So they may ovulate CD 21, but then have a 7 day LP, and get their period CD 28. This doesn't happen very much at all! In most cases when people think this happened to them, they simply missed their positive OPK!
Long story short, the odds are very high that you'll ovulate a bit later than your norm, and then have your normal LP tacked onto that, and get your period late.
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