Ovulating From Both Ovaries?

How common is this? I mean, I know it's possible due to the fact that there are so many fraternal twins in the world...but I'm just curious. Does every woman ovulate from both ovaries at least once in her life...or is it something that happens more for some but not others? I'm almost certain I'm ovulating currently cause I have annoying pinching pains on both sides of my lower andomen...uggggh...perhaps this will be my month!

i'm not really answering your question but i do know that fraternal twins are genetic. but then again it has to start somewhere.

I think that's one thing that we won't know for a while. I would guess that we probably ovulate more than one egg plenty of times during our lives, but we never really know it.

IDK how common it is but I know I have before b/c I get the pinching feelings as well. Normally out of only one side, but sometimes out of two...

Quoting Tara Maureen:“ IDK how common it is but I know I have before b/c I get the pinching feelings as well. Normally out of only one side, but sometimes out of two...”

As often as I hear about women experiencing Mittelschmerz I find it very hard to believe that only 20% of women experience it.

but you can also release two eggs from one ovary... right?

Quoting egyptiangodss [MAEK]:“ but you can also release two eggs from one ovary... right?”

Yes, and I believe this is actually how most fraternal twins come about. Usually when there are twins, it is one ovary releasing two eggs...not each ovary releasing one egg at the same time.

i hope that it's true that twins skip a generation.. my mom had twins.. so i really hope i don't.. i wouldn't' make it  the doc saw something extra on the screen at my first ultrasound.. she said it could have been twins.. but it turned out my uterus was just retroverted ... thank God

Quoting ~Whitney~:“ How common is this? I mean, I know it's possible due to the fact that there are so many fraternal twins ... [snip!] ... currently cause I have annoying pinching pains on both sides of my lower andomen...uggggh...perhaps this will be my month!”

well sweetie according to my OBGYN theres no such thing as ovulation pain. so i dont know. i do know however the chances of ovulating from both ovaries at one is 1 in 1,000  

Quoting Breezaleez:“ well sweetie according to my OBGYN theres no such thing as ovulation pain. so i dont know. i do know however the chances of ovulating from both ovaries at one is 1 in 1,000  ”

That's what every doctor I've ever had has told me (about no ovulation pain) and I think they are all full of shit. I know every single time I'm ovulating and from what side because it friggin' hurts...and I have what I think is pretty solid proof. I doubted myself because I was on birth control...and now I have a son, haha! I also had severe pains while ovulating after my miscarriage and went and had an u/s done to see if something was wrong. Nothing wrong, but the u/s tech did mention that I was ovulating on that same side I was having pains.

huh how weird!!

Quoting ~Whitney~:“ How common is this? I mean, I know it's possible due to the fact that there are so many fraternal twins ... [snip!] ... currently cause I have annoying pinching pains on both sides of my lower andomen...uggggh...perhaps this will be my moI

I have experienced pains on both sides at one point or another. I have always wondered if it was because I was Oing on both side..I'll never know for sure! I usually have it on just one side when I ovulate. I am pretty sure that indicates ovulation because I have all the CM that comes with it...so I personally have mittelschmertz and I think it is more common as well because of how many woman have it. That is how I knew when to BD when we were TTC and it worked!

so i called and asked my OBGYN yesterday whitney...she says theres no suck thing as OV pain   BUT she said some women can experience some small microscopic cysts from the ovaries at the same time and that may be what the pain is. huh.

Quoting danyle ♥ her bear:“ As often as I hear about women experiencing Mittelschmerz I find it very hard to believe that only 20% of women experience it.”

Wow, I didn't even know there was a name for it, lol. I just remember being told what it was when I went to the doc b/c I was in alot of pain (when I was a teen)... since I learned what it is, I'm now more intune with it happening and my cycles and whatnot and now notice it every time I O. Although it doesn't hurt bad all the time, sometimes it barely hurts at all, but since I know what's giong on I notice it more, if you know what I mean, lol.