What does ovulation feel like?

by Elizabeth
(Hartford, CT)

What does ovulation feel like? I know some women say that they are able t6o feel when they ovulate. I have never had this happen to me but I would love to know exactly what is going on in your body during this time and what physical symptoms you may have?

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What does ovulation feel like?

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They say its from hormones NEW
by: Anonymous

I read a fertility book once and it said some women experience pain with ovulation because of the hormnones that are released when the egg ruptures and sits there waiting to be swept up into the fallopian tube.
It hurts NEW
by: Anonymous

I am one of those women who feel when I ovulate, and it hurts! It feels like a sharp nagging pain in my lower right side only. I don't know why it onbly effects the right side. They say that when you release an egg each month that it alternates between left and right, but my body only alerts me that an egg has been released on the right side.

The pain is usually not too bad, since I am used to it now. I am 33 years old. This has been happening for years but I just connected to my monthly cycle a few years ago when I had trouble conceiving. I was able to feel when ovulation was happening and tried to have intercourse that very day/night, and the night afterward, but was always unsuccessful. I ended up having in vitro fertilization. It was successful the first time, so I am grateful for that.

But back to the symptom that I experience monthly when I ovulate. It is a sharp pain in the right side that doesn't go away for hours. Sometimes it is only a couple, maybe 2 or so. Other times it lasts for 12 hours or maybe the whole day. It also gives me a sense of fullness in lower abdomen. It actually feels heavy, a separate heaviness, meaning it seems like it is a foreign object or sensation that has been placed on me for whatever length of time it decides to stay for that particular month. Oh yeah, did I mention that it hurts! Sometimes it causes me too have to hunch over when I stand up because the thought of straightening up is unbearable, and when I attempt to do so , I am reassured that it should not be attempted.

In a sense, I am grateful that I have pain when I ovulate and I know what ovulation feels like. If I didn't have a problem internally that would help me become pregnant faster, in my opinion. The only down side is that I have polycistic ovary syndrome and despite all of my efforts, I was unable to get pregnant naturally. Oh well, what can you do? You have to play with the hand you were dealt.

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