Ovulation pain...

[spnfan]

So this might be a stupid question but Dr Google was useless as ever.

First cycle TTC baby#2 and I've been doing OPKs for about 3 days now so far all negative results, which is expected as AF only left 3 days ago!

I have also only recently realised that 'that pain I get in my hip' is familiar and actually happens every month which has led me to think it's ovulation pains. From reading old posts on here etc it definitely feels like others have described it to.

However! I'm having ov pains now but OPK negative, so eventually my question is this:

When does ovulation pain happen? Is it before my fertile period (to give the egg chance to get to where it ought to be)? Or is it immediate?

I get ovulation pain the day after I get my positive opk.

Sperm can hang around for a few days so your most fertile day actually is normal the day before you ovulate (normally the day you get your positive opk).

Once you ovulate then your fertile window is actually over quite quickly.

I've just done a quick check... Apparently the egg needs to be fertilised within 24 hours or it dissolves.

I used the Glow app and it does always end my fertile window the day after ovulation, whereas it starts it 5 days before ovulation.

That's what I thought Mrs so the pain I get that is almost definitely ovulation pain can't be!

I've had negative OPKs and no EWCM so far.

I wonder what my hip pain is then...!

Hi, I thought that ovulation pain could come from the actual release of the egg OR your follicle preparing to release an egg (do follicles swell when the egg is ripening or have I made that up?), so I guess you could get it several days before ovulation. I tend to get it the same day as a positive opk.

I get niggles around my hip/side for about a week before I get a positive OPK. Then the day after I get a positive I get reeeeeally strong ovulation aches. So maybe it's just your ovaries warming up for the big event!

Yeah I get random side/back twinges etc for a few days before +ve OPK. And then get worse the day of +ve OPK then tail off. They probably last about a week or so tbh. I don't remember having them at all before I came off the pill, but at that point I wasn't analysing every single random pain my body experiences, unlike now

Aha, dr google says that its not know exactly what causes the pain but the most likely theory is that it's the egg breaking out of the follicle. But that wouldn't explain why you'd get pain before/after ovulation.