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Re: Cervical mucus changes

From: Kelly Shanahan, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:57:56 -0600 (CST)


At Fri, 12 Jan 2001, adeline wrote: >
>Hi there I would like to check whether my info on cervical mucus changes
>are correct. After mensus, there should be a dry period followed by the
>wet period. The wet period starts off with thick murky mucus and when
>ovulation approaches, the mucus become clear, stretchy eggwhitish. When
>ovulation is over, the mucus changes back to the thick murky kind. Am i
>correct?

yes

However i have noticed that last month, my mucus went from >thick to eggwhitish to thick and then back to eggwhitish throughout my
>cycle. The weird thing was the mucus was actually eggwhitish on the day
>i expected my period. Should i be concerned? How does this affect
>ovulation as we r ttc.
>Thanks>ade

Are you sure it was cervical mucus and not semen? You may also have had a vagianl infection.

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M. Kelly Shanahan, MD
S. Lake Tahoe, CA

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