Period right after ovulation?

[Anonymous]

37 year old, been trying to conceive second child for 6 months now no success (have 2 year old conceived regularly). Have been monitoring periods and using ovulation stops for the past few months. Ovulated last Sunday, and then had medium heavy bleeding Tuesday- Thursday (exactly like a normal period for me). I’m normally fairly regular - this period (if it was a period) was like two weeks early. I’ve just recently had the infertility bloodwork done and came back normal/as expected.

Is it possible this is just really heavy mid cycle bleeding or was it an actual period so I should change my tracking app/cycle to treat it as a period?

[Anonymous]

I'm in your shoes, but am 37 and trying for 1.5 years with multiple miscarriages. Zero wrong on tests.

Did you get a positive OPK? If not, I would continue testing.

[Anonymous]

OP here: I had a positive ovulation strip test on Saturday and then not on Sunday, so I’m pretty sure I ovulated Sunday or Monday. I guess can just do the ovulation strips every day now going forward to see if it was a true period.

My sister suggested it might have been a very early miscarriage - could that happen like 1-2 days after ovulation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here: I had a positive ovulation strip test on Saturday and then not on Sunday, so I’m pretty sure I ovulated Sunday or Monday. I guess can just do the ovulation strips every day now going forward to see if it was a true period.

My sister suggested it might have been a very early miscarriage - could that happen like 1-2 days after ovulation?

NP. Could be implantation bleeding. Too early for a miscarriage.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like implantation bleeding.

[Anonymous]

What ovulation strips are you using? Have you tried proov?

[Anonymous]

My sister's cycle was similar (period came right after ovulation - although not sure that is happening in your case as it sounds like it could be implantation bleeding). Her OB gave her progesterone (I think?) and she got pregnant pretty soon after starting it after eight months of trying. She is pretty overweight and was not as heavy when she naturally conceived her first child, so the weight may have contributed to a disruption in her menstrual cycle which was remedied by the progesterone. It was much easier for her to start with that than to move to IUIs or IVFs since her issues were hormonal. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

This may be way off but is there any chance you got a Covid booster recently? Every time I've gotten that vax (4 now - just had one earlier this month which is why it's on my mind) it's triggered an early period for me. Things seem to then go back to normal over the following month.

[Anonymous]

If there's moderate to heavy bleeding 2 days after ovulation, it's not implantation, because:
1. Implantation occurs at 6 days post ovulation *at the earliest*, and
2. Implantation bleeding is usually very light and short, and in most cases, simply does not occur.

It could be that you did not produce enough progesterone to sustain a normal luteal phase, and therefore your endometrium lining started to shed early.

I suggest you get the Proov progesterone stripsto check whether your progesterone levels are high enough in the luteal phase to sustain implantation.

[Anonymous]

Could be a bleeding cyst or something as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This may be way off but is there any chance you got a Covid booster recently? Every time I've gotten that vax (4 now - just had one earlier this month which is why it's on my mind) it's triggered an early period for me. Things seem to then go back to normal over the following month.

I’m a DP who mentioned implantation bleeding, but I wondered this, too. I had 2-3 days of mid cycle spotting after each of my 4 Covid shots/boosters, but then things were right back to normal the following month. Also a possibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
If there's moderate to heavy bleeding 2 days after ovulation, it's not implantation, because:
1. Implantation occurs at 6 days post ovulation *at the earliest*, and
2. Implantation bleeding is usually very light and short, and in most cases, simply does not occur.

It could be that you did not produce enough progesterone to sustain a normal luteal phase, and therefore your endometrium lining started to shed early.

I suggest you get the Proov progesterone stripsto check whether your progesterone levels are high enough in the luteal phase to sustain implantation.

OP here. Thanks - this sounds the most probable.

I just tried to purchase Proov strips and were told they wouldn't ship to MD - how do people get them here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This may be way off but is there any chance you got a Covid booster recently? Every time I've gotten that vax (4 now - just had one earlier this month which is why it's on my mind) it's triggered an early period for me. Things seem to then go back to normal over the following month.

OP here - I didn't this time, but was the same as you - my last booster changed my cycle for that cycle.

I did have maybe quite a bit of stress with a HSG scan the week before - I wonder if that could have contributed in any way...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If there's moderate to heavy bleeding 2 days after ovulation, it's not implantation, because:
1. Implantation occurs at 6 days post ovulation *at the earliest*, and
2. Implantation bleeding is usually very light and short, and in most cases, simply does not occur.

It could be that you did not produce enough progesterone to sustain a normal luteal phase, and therefore your endometrium lining started to shed early.

I suggest you get the Proov progesterone stripsto check whether your progesterone levels are high enough in the luteal phase to sustain implantation.

OP here. Thanks - this sounds the most probable.

I just tried to purchase Proov strips and were told they wouldn't ship to MD - how do people get them here?

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[Anonymous]

Shortened luteal phase = not enough time for your uterus to prepare for implantation and support pregnancy. Progesterone as a PP suggested might help.