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mittelschmerz and timing intercourseFrom: Florence (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:12:36 -0600 (CST)
If one feels ovulatory pain distinctly at day 14 of a regular 28-day cycle, when is the optimum time to have intercourse? I know the safe strategy is to have intercourse days 10-20 of a regular cycle, that an ovum lasts 24 hours and sperm a few days, but I wondered if we understand the timing of the ovulation/conception process any better than that. Lennart Nilsson's A Child is Born, indicates that mittelschmerz "makes it easier for the woman to calculate the most propitious time for conception." But I haven't read anywhere that says how long precisely it takes the ovum to get from the point of release to the inside of the fallopian tube and to lose the cover of nutrient cells around it so it is ready to meet the sperm. I've read that mittelschmerz marks the release of the follicle from the ovary. But mittelschmerz may last 12 hours or more and ovulation takes a matter of minutes. Does the release of the ovum happen at the peak of the bell-curve of ovulatory pain? If the pain is caused by fluid irritating the peritoneum (and not pain from swelling and eruption of the follicle itself) then one would think ovulation has already happened at the first sign of mittelschmerz. Mittelschmerz feels to me like my ovary is swollen, hot and about to burst...how sure are we that the pain isn't the follicle itself rather than secondary to the bursting? Also, do we know when the peak of ovulatory mucous happens compared to the actual moment of ovulation and/or mittelschmerz? Thanks!
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