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Re: Can you ovulate after 6 weeks
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:24:36 -0600 (CST)
I might sound like an idiot, but, I don't know the answer. How do you
know if you "have mucus?" How do you check/see?
At Tue, 27 Nov 2001, jodi wrote:
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>If you think six weeks is a long cycle, I'm not even gonna TELL you what
>my cycles average... :-)
>
>I am confused by what you mean when you say you just got your period AND
>you have egg white... the two don't occur simultaniously...
>
>If you have egg white cervical mucus as a sign of ovulation, you'll have
>it somewhere in the neighborhood of 12-16 days before your period. In
>your text book normal women, this is somewhere between cycle day 12-16
>(from the start of her last menstrual period...) It might happen on day
>10, it might happen on 18... generally, it happens in the middle, at
>least on paper. Why? Because the luteal phase of your cycle lasts
>roughly 2 weeks for all women, and since the "ideal" cycle is 4 weeks...
>well, you can see that has to take place in the middle.
>
>Basically, I would say that the length of your cycles is not enough to
>determine whether or not you ovulated. It could be that you get a
>period... then your hormones are so screwed up that nothing productive
>is going on in there for months... then something happens to straighten
>things out, and you ovulate, and have a period... and even though it's
>been 8 months since your last period,m you had an ovulatory period.
>(I've had it happen...)
>
>Or it could be that if it's been a long time since your last period,
>you're not really having a period, just overflow bleeding from a lining
>that built up way too much, if that makes sense.
>
>Only way to really tell is, were there ovulatory signs ~2 weeks before
>you started bleeding? (For me, those are always the mucus... sore
>nipples... and a feeling that I am retaining more water than Hoover
>Dam...)
>
>- jodi
>
>At Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Joyce wrote:
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>>I just got my period after 6 weeks (I range from 5 - 12 weeks) and I've
>>got "egg white" which I believe means I've ovulated? Anyone know if you
>>can ovulate when your cycle is so far apart? I'm not on any medication
>>just been unrefined carbing.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--
>>Joyce
>>
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