How do you know when you are ovulating?

Question

Ok so I have NEVER EVER had a period every month.....i get them once every 2 or 3 months. When do you KNOW when you ar ovulating? When are you supposed to?

Answer 1

Everyone ovulates at a different time. To find out when you ovulate and how best to schedule some baby-making, start taking and charting your Basal Body Temperatures (BBT).
To check your basal body temperature, start keeping track of your temperature on the first day of your period using a basal body thermometer (you can buy one at any pharmacy), which shows minute changes in your temperature. You should take your temperature as soon as you wake up and before you get out of bed. If you can, take your basal body temperature at the same time every morning. When you have done this mark it on a chart.
It's helpful to chart your temperature for a few months so you can see whether there's a pattern to your cycle. If you're sick or fail to take your temperature immediately upon awakening, any pattern you find may be inaccurate. Thermometers that remember the last reading are helpful if you tend to go back to sleep after taking your temperature.
Also check your cervical mucus. There are three ways you can do this: using toilet paper or your fingers across the opening of your vagina, wearing a panty liner (which is sometimes hard to detect) or inserting your finger into your vagina. Note the consistency of the mucus. You may also want to monitor its texture throughout the day. If it’s clear and slippery, about the consistency of raw egg white, then you’re at your most fertile.
You should notice a rise in your temperature signaling that you have ovulated at the same time your mucus will look and feel like egg white. When the two coincide, then you know it's time to start trying to conceive.

Usually once you've ovulated, your window of opportunity is starting to close (but not completely closed), but with the BBT chart, you will have a better idea of your ovulation date for the next cycle.

Answer 2

Most females ovulate about 14 days after the start of their period however this is NOT true for all women. Since you have irregular periods there is really no way to determine when you are ovulating except to consult a doctor or buy an ovulation detector kit. Some females get a clearish/whitish gooey type discharge during ovulation. Also, your basal body temperature will rise. And lastly, some females claim to have minor cramping or minor pains near their ovaries during ovulation. Good luck.

Answer 3

I went through this exact issue in my early twenties, when I was trying to concieve. My cycles have never come every month & I'm now 36 years old. The doctor put me on fertility drugs to induce ovulation, still nothing........Finally, we tried to "old" method of using a basal body thermometer every morning to take my temputure. You have to use it before you even sit up in the morning, so keep it on your bedside table. When your temputure rises slightly, (about 2 degrees), that's when you're ovulating. It will stay raised for about fourteen days, then you'll get another period. If it stays risen for 16 days, there's a 98 percent chance that your pregnant. That's how I got pregnant after nothing else worked, and it only took six weeks once I started taking my temp. every morning! Also, you can buy a kit at the drugstore to determine when you're ovulating, but they're expensive and if you only ovulate every few months, it could get VERY expensive.....

Answer 4

Ovulation is while an ovary releases an egg. The egg enters the fallopian tube, the place it maintains to be for greater or less 24 hours. we are saying that a female is ovulating in this time; that's the era while it quite is obtainable for her to grow to be pregnant. If there is sperm interior the fallopian tube, it could fertilize the egg. that's stated as theory. The fertilized egg then travels down the fallopian tube and embeds itself into the lining of the uterus. as quickly because it attaches right here, a female is seen pregnant, although maximum assessments will nevertheless take yet another couple of weeks to hit upon the being pregnant. If the egg isn't fertilized, it passes out of the physique in the time of the vagina. approximately 2 weeks later, the uterus sheds the lining that it had arranged for the egg; that's what a era is.

Answer 5

With somewhat regular cycles, you can chart your daily bbt (basal body temperatures) or you can use ovulation kits. The problem with very irregular cycles like yours is that you would have to spend a fortune on ovulation kits to find out if and when you are ovulating. With bbt charts, your temperature rises the day after you ovulate, so it wouldn't help you until the next cycle. However, since your cycle is so irregular, it probably wouldn't be much help. I would suggest going to see your OBGYN. Some women are put on birth control pills for one month to help regulate their cycle and you are most likely to get pregnant the first month off the pill. When I missed my period, my OB gave me Prometrium (progesterone) to help start my period and then gave me Clomid to help me ovulate that month. I charted my bbt that month and not only ovulated, but conceived.

Answer 6

Women with normal, monthly cyles start ovulating three weeks after their last period. And the time for conception is only a window of 48-72 hours.
I share your irregular cycle problem, but unfortunately I don't know the answer either.

Answer 7

Typically women ovulate about 2 weeks after their period. Usually you will have light cramping and discharge. There are kits you can buy at your local drug store to help you find out when you ovulate, I believe its based on tempature. Its changes when you ovulate.

Answer 8

Cervical mucus is a good indicator of ovulation. Peak-type mucus may mean fertile days leading up to ovulation.

Answer 9

In between periods and since you do not have regular periods go to the doctor and start taking birth control

Answer 10

You need to do some counting back...or try and chart your cycle. Its usually 14 days from the first day of your last menstrual period. Try and chart the cycle...or go to your Dr and see if you can somehow regulate your cycle.