Ovulation at the end of a long cycle

[Coloursinthesky]

Transferring a question from another thread. I suspect I'm entering peri menopause as my cycle has been erratic since I turned 41 (42 now) Today is CD44. It's the longest I've ever gone without a period.

On CD 27, I got the weirdest, rubberiest ewcm, like a solid mass of it. My period date came and went. Today I started feeling a pain in my side like I was ovulating, and when I looked at my app, Today would have been ovulation day had I got my period 44 days ago.

I'd always believed that you could only ovulate once a cycle, the exception being double ovulation in the case of twins. However, new research is suggesting that women are able to ovulate more than once in a cycle, especially when they approaching menopause.

So, my question is whether it is possible to ovulate twice in one cycle, but it's as if it's a new cycle (absent period initating new cycle). Does that make sense?

Anyone know the answer or have any experiences? 😀

Hello ! Normally, if you ovulate twice in the same cycle, the two eggs can only be released a maximum of 24 hours apart. There are extremely rare cases of two ovulations with a longer interval between them. However, I don't have any knowledge or data about cycles and ovulation when you're 40 or over, but I assume that in this case the cycle is more erratic. I wish you all the best and take care of yourself. Maybe ask your gynaecologist?
XXXXX

Thank you for your response! I'm going to ask my gyno soon :-)

Can you tell us what he/she said after the meeting ?

I'm going to give it another 5 days to see if my period arrives before contacting her and will ask about the ovulation then

I just realised something. Isn't the luteal phase supposed to stay constant? I originally thought I'd ovulated on cd27 or thereabouts but it's now CD 45 and would have expected my period yesterday, if I was going by my luteal phase. Instead I felt like I was ovulating instead.

Does luteal phase stay the same even with long cycles, so if you have a 15 days luteal phase and get your period on CD 60, that generally means that you would have ovulated on CD 45? And if you don't ovulated that cycle, what brings the period on?

Can someone please explain this to me? I always thought I was somewhat clued up on fertility and my cycle etc, but now I realise how little I understand of anything outside the typical 28 days cycle with regular ovulation symptoms midway.