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Doctor insights on: What Happens To Your Body When You Stop Ovulating

In and out: Only the cycle you take it, no cumulative effect. Read more

No periods: You do not ovulate if you are pregnant --also if you do not ovulate your periods will become irregular if you are not pregnant. Read more

MIttelschmerz: There is a pain when the ovary releases the readied egg that many women train themselves to feel. This is a process called Mittelschmerz. I am sure you can google that name and learn more than we can teach you on this simple app. Read more

Period changes: Ovulation is necessary in order to have regular cycles unless you are taking hormones. So if you are not ovulating (and not on hormones) your cycles will be irregular. Prolonged irregular cycles can lead to various medical problems including uterine cancer. If you are concerned about taking hormonal birth control to stop you from ovulating this is not a problem. Read more

Need workup: If a woman has bleeding from ovulation for at least a week, it is unusual for this to be from only ovulation. In other words there may be another reason for the bleeding, such as polyp on the cervix or uterus, hormones such as thyroid or prolactin being abnormal, for instance. Before doing a treatment I would recommend making sure you know what the real cause is, then can treat effectively. Read more

MAny reasons: The most common reason of course is menopause which happens when you run out of eggs (you have all you'll ever have when you are born). You can also stop ovulating if you are stressed, exercise a whole lot (like Olympic level athletes), diet excessively (like anorexia), or, most commonly, develop poly cystic ovarian syndrome. Read more

Mittelschmertz: Yes, it can. It is called Mittelschmertz and is a sharp, stabbing pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis. Read more

Ovulation test: There are commercially available ovulation test kits to help identify the date of ovulation. Good luck! Read more

Mittleschmerz: Pain around ovulation is called 'mittleschmerz' and is extremely common and normal, not to say that it's pleasant. Pain from ovulation is usually very responsive to treatment with nsaids otc drugs like advil, aleve, (naproxen) etc. Simple things like use of a heating pad can help, women who use birth control pills often get significant relief. Read more

Depends: All the way from can't feel anything to a twinge in the low abdomen on one side to severe cramping that might even radiate to the back (still usually onesided). Read more

NO!: No progestin-based emergency contraception will stop you from ovulating forever. Read more

Varies: When ovulation resumes after a D&C depends on how often you ovulated before the D&C, why you had to have the D&C and how much stress was associated with the D&C. One answer doesn't fit all. Read more

Ovulation: It is not uncommon for a patient who does not ovulate regularly and may frequently skip several periods to spontaneously ovulate on her own without medication. Some patients with ovulation dysfunction have periods every 5 to 6 weeks, and some have periods only once or twice a year or even less frequently. The frequency of ovulation in a particular patient can also vary with weight gain or loss. Read more

Taking Temp.: Take temerature when you wake up in morning. Read more

Ovulation: Sexual activity does not change the menstrual cycle, especially ovulation. Do you understand that there is a difference between menstruation and ovulation? That they are at opposite ends of the cycle? Read more

Sorry: Even with very regular cycles there is never an always with bbt. They are mostly reliable an predictive, but even trained experts don't always agree on the exact details of reading a BBT chart. Read more

Middle: Ovulation is roughly midway through your cycle.. Vaginal discharge can increase in amount & become watery to stretchy at the time of ovulation. It has been described as a “raw egg white ” consistency. Read more

Effectivness is 72: Hours, however the effectives tapers off with time from intercourse. So it is most effective the closer taken after intercourse and less effective as time passes. It suppress ovulation if taken before ovulation. If suppression goes away due to time pass and weakened effectiveness of the drug it is possible that the egg come out from the ovary. Read more

No: Only if you get cirrhosis from alcoholism. Read more

It can: Smoking reduces blood supply by causing constriction of small arteries, including the arteries to the ovaries, which may effect their normal function. In addition, it adds things like formaldehyde and carbon monoxide which both reduce the supply of oxygen to normal tissues. Smokers definitely may have fertility issues. Equally, smokers have more pregnancy complications and baby's health suffers. Read more