“Can I change my date of ovulation?”
My partner works away from home two weeks every month and it just so happens that my peak fertility lands smack dab in the middle of the time he’s gone. Is there medication or something I can take to change it so it’s when he’s home?
Female | 33 years old
3 Answers
No, you can’t do it normally. We can do it with a lot of hormone injections, usually done with IVF.
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Thx for your question. Altering the onset of ovulation is not likely. It is almost always mid-cycle and is your innate biology.
Dr. Victoria Mondloch
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecology
I can sense your frustration; you are 33yo and your clock is ticking. But be reassured, your peak ovulation is only when the egg is actually released on d14-15 of a typical 28day cycle. The body’s ability to achieve conception is actually up to 6-7days pre-ovulatory and 36hours post-ovulatory. Sperm can live in the Fallopian tube up to 6-7days as they remain viable; the female sperm will last ‘longer’ as then swim slower and the male sperm swim faster and use up their food supply in the head of the sperm so they do not usually last the entire 6-7days pre-ovulation. So if you are able to use this information to help time your intimacy with your partner, then this should help.
Gambling on holding up ovulation is a little risky as it involves shutting down your cycles and hoping that they return on a schedule that may work for you; that could take 6-12months to actually achieve by using the pill to shut down your cycles and then allowing them to return. And NEVER let someone talk to you about using a synthetic Provera in oral or shot form as it causes infertility as well as it is the culprit for the rise in breast cancer, stroke and heart attack associated with the Women’s Health Initiative so synthetic Provera is essentially poison.
Talk to your healthcare provider/doctor and get a plan together to learn how to maximize your ovulation schedule.
Gambling on holding up ovulation is a little risky as it involves shutting down your cycles and hoping that they return on a schedule that may work for you; that could take 6-12months to actually achieve by using the pill to shut down your cycles and then allowing them to return. And NEVER let someone talk to you about using a synthetic Provera in oral or shot form as it causes infertility as well as it is the culprit for the rise in breast cancer, stroke and heart attack associated with the Women’s Health Initiative so synthetic Provera is essentially poison.
Talk to your healthcare provider/doctor and get a plan together to learn how to maximize your ovulation schedule.
