My irregular cycles weren't irregular at all anyway

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spent 8 months thinking i had irregular cycles. 32 days, then 40, sometimes nothing. GPs said “that happens.” but when my endo looked at my tracking - cycle lengths, LH surge timing, temps - she said this isn’t irregular cycles. you’re not ovulating those months.

that’s anovulation. there’s a real difference. irregular cycles means ovulation just happens on a weird schedule. anovulation means some months there’s straight-up no ovulation happening.

standard testing didn’t catch it. i was doing day-21 progesterone on a 40-day cycle and OPKs from day 12 when my surge didn’t show until day 17+. the tracking made it visible. did anyone else realize your irregular cycles were actually anovulation?

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that’s the problem, docs really do just say “that happens” without looking at why you’re not ovulating those months. it’s on us to track it for them.

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ugh, “standard testing didn’t catch it” is such a familiar tune. it’s like they only look for a perfect 28-day cycle, or nothing at all, instead of the real reasons why things are going