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How do you know if you actually ovulate?

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Dr. Gerard Honore answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

Spontaneous periods: If you have spontaneous periods (meaning without medicine) then you are almost certainly ovulating; whether your ovulations are always normal is a different question.

Answered 12/10/2013

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