When do you normally see symptoms

[Jalapeñomel]

after you ovulate? Are you pretty regular or does it change from month to month?

[statlerwaldorf]

I have a pattern. Usually my nipples start getting really sore the day of o and hurt for about 5 days. A few days before AF, I start getting sore nipples again, get constipated, irritability, lower back pain, and get really bloated. The day before o I get diarrhea and cramps.

Some cycles I have pain in my ovaries, but don't have a clear pattern. Sometimes before o, sometimes the day of o, sometimes up to 3 dpo, and sometimes not at all.

[Jalapeñomel]

My nipples usually get sore, but it doesn't seem like that happens for several days after I O. And as of lately, the sides of my breasts, like where the underwire goes, hurts like a mo'fo. I don't know what the deal is.

One thing is for sure, as I get older, PMS seems to get worse.

[lola]

Usually about seven days before my period starts, which is 6DPO. Emotional, bitchy, sore boobs. Ugh.


ETA - oh. also. CRAVINGS. omg i can't stop craving cookie when i am PMSing. god, i would absolutely love some cookies right now.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 9, 2013 18:09:04 GMT -5 lola said:

Usually about seven days before my period starts, which is 6DPO. Emotional, bitchy, sore boobs. Ugh.


ETA - oh. also. CRAVINGS. omg i can't stop craving cookie when i am PMSing. god, i would absolutely love some cookies right now.

I am always famished and super tired when I am PMSing...and it seems to last forever, like at least 10 days.  And this is going to sound so crazy, but I cannot eat salad when I am PMSing.  It tastes really gross to me, like dirt. I don't know if it is the lettuce or what, but it's weird.  

I also think that there are only about 5 days when I feel normal a month, no PMS, no period.  

[vmars]

Right after I O I usually break out and my cm dries up. Right before AF I get super hungry and spot.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 10, 2013 11:44:51 GMT -5 vmars said:

Right after I O I usually break out and my cm dries up. Right before AF I get super hungry and spot.

So your symptoms come on the same day that you ovulate?

[vmars]

No, the very next day after I O.

[linz]

Since doing ovulation meds my boobs hurt, bad. But this last cycle - nothing. It's so trippy since you think maybe they are pg related, and then AF shows her nasty head.

[pooh8402]

I've only just started keeping track of my symptoms, so I haven't noticed much of a pattern. I almost always have ovulation pain, so there's that. I don't have many symptoms of O or PMS though, never have really. cramps are usually fairly mild and start on CD1, I don't usually have mood swings or irritability, my boobs don't change, I dunno.

vmars, TCOYF said that everyone's CM should dry up after O. mine does too.

[sonrisa]

These days, I start to get bitterly angry about a week afterwards. That lasts a week or two - at least until I start drinking again. That probably isn't the type of symptom you are thinking of.

I started my irrational anger days yesterday. Yipee!

[pooh8402]

yea, I had an irrational angry day the other day because I'm not ovulating fast enough.