Riddle me this…mittelschmerz pain and ovulation…what comes first?

[Greekmyth]

Hello lovely MN,

I wonder if anyone you can help me figure this out 🤔

first time ever i have tracked my ovulation (I sadly miscarried in December)
I ovulated on D14 and I was ‘peak fertility’ according to clear blue digital test and then fertile the next morning too. Great and the by pm not fertile
However on the evening of D 15 I had mittelschmerz pain which I get every month, I can literally feel my ovary release an egg and it’s a sharp nasty pain lasting a few hours I’ve had this ever since I had my periods.

I may have got it wrong but I thought being the most fertile or likely to get pregnant is the egg being released and come down the fallopian tube which would be the cause of the mittelschmerz pain?

therefore how can I be peak fertile prior to the egg being released? And then not fertile when I feel the egg being released?

Sorry if I’m being really thick!

thanks x

Ovulation pain is a mystery to me op.

I have it every month, but it feels like it's in my cervix! I kind of think it my be my cervix opening? Who knows.

It can last and hour to a full day but it's always exactly 14 days before my period so it must be related to ovulation.

Oh also, you get your peak 12-24 hours before the egg releases.

Thank you
the whole mystery thing is so true and I just don’t think there is enough research.

i think to be sure I’ll have sex a few days after peak fertility when I have ovulation pain just to be safe. No harm

ah ok! This would make sense!

I thought the mittelschmerz pain was the egg bursting out. Certainly feels like it to me as I get the pain on the side I ovulate and in the place your ovary would be (and I know I'm correcr with the side as I've impressed sonographers twice at early pregnancy scans by being able to tell them before they told me - they can spot it from the corpus luteum iir)

Oh also, both times I've (accidentally 😄) become pregnant I had sex about a day or two before ovulation pain hit, at which point I went "eek, ah fuck it, it'll be fine...."

So crack on would be my suggestion!

Good advice 😀
We DTD a few times over my fertility window but then my husband was away for a night when I was peak fertility and then I had the ovary pain so who knows …first time trying since our miscarriage so not expecting this month to the the month

I always get severe pain for a few hours on my left side.
i can literally feel the egg being released!