Ovulation or Exercise spotting??

[peepingmeercat]

Hi all. Happy New Year! Hope everyone is keeping well❤

Bit of a weird one. We've been trying for the past 5 months without success but haven't been trying too hard (work stress for both of us means libidos are a little all over the place but we've aimed for at least once during the fertile window) - not unexpected that we haven't been successful yet! Anywho, this month, Christmas and New Year means we've been a lot more relaxed so we DTD A LOT this weekend in the 2 days leading up to ovulation.

Yesterday was 1DPO for me and I went swimming for the first time in yonks and really went for it. Won't lie, was the most high intensity exercise I've done in a VERY long time! But when I'd finished, I found that I was spotting. Nothing heavy or prolonged but I never spot this early in my cycle.

Has anyone had this after exercise? Or maybe it's linked to ovulation? I just hoped I haven't wrecked any chances this month by trying to be nice to my body for a change!

Thanks all

Probably ovulation spotting?? Could you have ovulated today instead of yesterday??

I don't think so but who knows? I took an LH test on Sunday morning and it was high then first thing Monday morning and it'd dropped so I figured I'd ovulated Sunday evening some time maybe? Not sure how accurate these test strips are though haha! :)

It could be because you've been DTD more than usual...?

@peepingmeercat I get spotting after intense exercise, only when I'm around ovulation! Sometimes it's just spotting, and sometimes I also get with it a very sharp pain on one side and have to stop exercising. It starts happening a few days before, and until ovulation. I looked a few time for it on Google and didn't find much, except a forum where some women are describing exactly the same thing as me, but no one has any explanation for it. I mentioned it a few time to my GP, and he just said it's probably just ovulation spotting, but no idea why it's happening only after exercise. I was also told it could be related to my fibroids as I have a few, but they don't know really... I was worried it would affect my chances to conceive, and because of that, I have been trying to avoid any intense exercise the few days leading to ovulation, and also in the two weeks wait (not too many days left in the month to do it then...) But in November I didn't follow that, I exercised a few times during my fertile week and got quite a lot of spotting. I was sure it would have ruined my chances to get pregnant, but I actually got a BFP that month! (I unfortunately miscarried at 7 weeks, but I don't think that's related). So I would say, I can't tell you the cause of that spotting, but it didn't affect my chance to get pregnant.
Good luck to you for this month!

@ArcEnCiel2022 thank you so much for sharing! I'm glad it's not just me and my uterus isn't just having a hissy fit 😁so sorry to hear you miscarried but thank you for giving me some hope ❤ sending you lots of love xx

Just an update in case anyone ever refers back to this! Spoke with GP. She wasn't concerned, she though that because I'm in the middle of my cycle, it was an ov bleed. Never had that before but fair enough 😊