Ovulation while on the pill/Lazy left ovary

[chaton-de-neige.livejournal.com]

I always experienced middleschmertz when I had my period before I was on HBC. For the last few months, I've experienced that same feeling about a week after my period ends. (In addition to my forehead breaking out the few days before, and spotting) I'm certain it's the same feeling. Am I really ovulating? Does that indicate that my HBC isn't preventing pregnancy? I haven't been sexually active in such a long time, but I might be in the very near future, so I'm a little worried.

Whenever I experience this, it's always on the right side of my pelvis. When I went to the hospital for "appendicitis," they found that I'd had a cyst burst on my right ovary, and had three other cysts from, as they called it, "failed ovulation." But nothing on my left. So is it possible that I only ovulate from the right ovary? Is that a potential problem in the future?

Comments

[miss-arel.livejournal.com]

Ovulating from one ovary or the other in an arrhythmic pattern is really quite common; I wouldn't worry about it. It's like flipping a coin: each month, you've basically got a 50/50 chance as to which ovary will ovulate first. Just because you get heads the last few times doesn't mean you're any more or less likely to get tails on your next flip. So I wouldn't worry about that.

However, I would be worried about potentially ovulating even though you're on HBC. That's definitely something I would look into.