Is it true?

That when you O the egg only drops down from 1 ovary?

Meaning every month each ovary takes turns?

Re: Is it true?

Great question ! One that confuses many people. Usually one follicule matures and that's the one that ovulates, if you are unmedicated. (fertility meds). However, your ovaries don't take turns. You can ovulate from your right ovary, several months in a row, vice versa with your left. Another thing I recently read, was what I shared with Kathy before she got her bfp :) !!!!! Some people have a blocked tube...the 'good' tube will sometimes grab the egg from the 'blocked tube' . Fallopian tubes have finger like structures at the ends and are intertwined.


I will repost that info. I found this on the internet, it was a post written by someone I don't know but I thought it was so interesting I saved it.

"This pg was accomplished with only one tube - the other one was 100% blocked... If your Dr. is telling you that it's hard to become pregnant or it makes it more difficult, then he is WRONG!!! Let me try & explain it to you the way that my RE explained it to me... Basically, the ends of the tubes hang so close to each other that the little finger like parts at the ends actually intermingle with each other... And they are both extremely close to your overies... It is a missconception that if you release an egg from your right ovary, then it's your right tube that picks it up... In fact, it could be either ovary releasing & either tube picking up the egg... What happens when one tube is blocked, is that the blocked tube quits trying to grab the eggs & the other tube is the one that does it every time... Even a lot of Dr.s aren't aware of this... But I have verified it with several specialists - The tubes are not far away from each other as you see in diagrams & drawings - But as I said before, they dangle kind of intertwined at the ends... Once the good tube has grabbed the egg, it starts making it's way through the tube... At that point (if timing is correct) then the sperm will find & fertilize the egg --- it takes apx. 5 full days for the egg (fertilized or not) to make it through the tubes & into the uterus. At that point, if the egg has been fertilized, it will try to implant into the uterine lining...

My RE actually showed me copies of three seperate studies done on this subject... All three indicated the same thing - there was little to no difference at all in the chance of pg occuring whether the patient had both tubes functioning or just one. One of the studies was done with all IUI patients (that's what I did) & the other two studies were done with natural cycles... It was very complelling evidence to me that it makes no difference at all if you have one blocked tube... Your Dr. sounds like he is unaware of this fact..."

Re: Is it true?

WOW! That is so interesting!! Thanks!

DH actually was the one who told me that .

I didn't agree cause I can literally feel when I am O'ing...and something very odd happened to me this month... I usually feel my left side...this month I did feel my left side...but then a few days later it felt like I was O'ing from my right side (not even sure if this is possible...but it was very odd)...so when I told DH he had mentioned this.

It may have been gas for all I know!