KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING ovulation
Source: Contraception 2008
What exactly is ovulation?
It is the process by which an egg ripens in the ovary to occur after its removal. Since the ovary is directed to the tube to be fertilized. Is performed in a cyclical and is always preceded by a hormonal stimulus. So women who suffer from hormonal disorders may have problems in that regard.
Can we feel it ?
Of course. Although not notarla does not mean that there is. Often not identified because we do not know what they should note.
And what are the symptoms?
Ovulation usually occurs mid-cycle, at approximately 14 days from the start of the rule, a period of 28 days. But first take place two consecutive hormonal peaks. The first is a rise in estrogen that recognizes changes because the thickness and amount of vaginal discharge. Takes place immediately after a peak of LH (luteinizing hormone) that starts to secrete progesterone to prepare the womb for a possible pregnancy. This note is an increase in temperature in the morning, getting up to 0.5 º C. Given these two symptoms, coupled with some pain that can lead this process, recognize when ovulating.
Why some women do not perceive anything?
Not everyone has the same sensitivity to pain and vaginal discharge and temperature may be altered by natural or other causes pathological. This would explain that some women feel very well and others that ovulation could not recognize them. With regard to pain, is normally solved with a little rest or analgesics if necessary, although it may go unnoticed.
Is there evidence that the doctor finds?
Of course. First is a medical history to determine what kind of cycle is a woman and then review gynecology. During the scan, the doctor sets the vaginal mucus and the signs of pain to the touch. Using ultrasound are also some signs that suggest that the doctor has occurred ovulation. Finally, an analysis can be done between day 21-22 hormonal cycle to quantify the level of progesterone and whether ovulation has occurred or not. Although today it is more a hormonal analysis between the second and third days of the cycle (discussed pituitary hormones), which provides much more information on the proper functioning of the menstrual cycle and the ovarian reserve.
How does ovulation with fertility?
When you are looking for a pregnancy is advisable to approach sex in the days before and after ovulation. There are ovulation test to be sold in pharmacies and found that the peak of LH prior to this process. Take the basal temperature is also useful to know when you ovulate. But if your cycles are very regular, 28 to 30 days, enough to guide relations to 14-15 days after the beginning of the rule.
TOPICS, MYTHS AND REALITY
- If I avoid the relationships on which notice that egg can not get pregnant. FALSE. These symptoms can not be used as a contraceptive method because they are vague and because ovulation can occur a few days before or after these symptoms.
- I do not like rules do not ovulate. FALSE. You can ovulate and have a soft rule that go unnoticed. There are anatomical problems that prevent menstruation but no ovulation.
- Ovulation is with a different ovary each month. FALSE. Each month the egg from the ovary with dominant follicle, which can be the same as the previous month. You have two ovaries, but they operate as a single body that responds to hormonal stimuli.
- The pain of "those days" is a mental illness, not physical. FALSE. This is a totally physical pain that is caused by the nuisance caused by the rupture of the ovarian follicle to eject the oocyte.
I can not get pregnant while breastfeeding. FALSE. At this stage, the levels of prolactin prevents ovulation, but may have ovulatory escapes, with the possibility of pregnancy. 
