answer (for all those who want to know)
3/11/2016 at 12:50 PM
| | Abira said "I had the mirena its been out for over two years. Yes their is cramping at first and you dont get your rags barely.....
My worry was after the five years you get it removed....am i still able to carry a child-?
I broke up with my bf but...when we were together we tried to have a kid and i didnt get pregnant...now he thinks hes sterile...but im oaranoid now maybe its me...from the morena.....maybe i have acar tissue or somethin...i dunno...not that i wasnt kids but its an unsettling feeling to feel like your not fertile anymore when im this young.
Anyhow maybe ask your doctor about that as well i am curious...and how can you tell if your ferile anyways...lol " |
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"how can you tell if you're fertile anyway"
TMI warning... LOL
Your body, if working properly, will give many signs that you are fertile. For example, as you approach ovulation (when your body releases an egg), you will start to notice more cervical mucus in your underwear and when you wipe after using the toilet. As you get closer to ovulation, the mucus gets clear and stretchy. That's the help the sperm swim and will help keep it alive for up to 5 days.
If you're brave enough to feel inside for your cervix, you will also notice it changes position as you become fertile every month. It moves from a low, closed position to a high and open position, and will return to the low and closed position every month.
You can also have secondary signs, like become more interested in sex as your fertile phase approaches, sore or tender breasts, etc.
However, sometimes you can have those signs and still not ovulate. You can tell you've ovulated though if you chart your temperature each morning while still in bed (before you get up and move around). This is called your basal temperature. You need to special thermometer to measure it. If you chart it, you can see when the temperature jumps and then stays high for at least 3 days in a row. That means you've ovulated.
You also need to count the number of days between when you've ovulated and when your period starts. This is usually called the luteal phase. If there's not enough days, even if you conceive the baby doesn't get a chance to implant, usually the minimum is 9-10 days. It's also possible to conceive, have the baby implant and start growing, only to lose it a few days later, something which looks like a period.
One thing to keep in mind if you're trying to conceive is that a woman is usually only fertile for a week to 10 days cycle. Most women have a relatively infertile period right after they bleed (when there's not cervical fluid), and once the egg is released, it's dead and gone in 24 hours and you won't ovulate again. (if you release more than 1 egg, it will always be in that 24 hour window). So it's possible for some women, especially if they have a short window of cervical fluid, to miss their fertile time entirely. It doesn't happen on day 14... it can happen as early as day 5, 6 or 7 (yes, you can ovulate while still bleeding if you have very short cycles!), or as late as 20 or 30 days if you have very long cycles!
With any type of birth control that uses hormones (this includes the Mirena), because it alters the way your body works it can take a while for it to resume regular cycles. Depending on how sensitive your body is, especially because the hormones tends to dry out the cervical crypts where the fluid that keeps the sperm alive comes from, it can take a year or more to recover although the majority of women only need a couple of months. I know when I came off the birth control pill it took until my 4th cycle to have a long enough luteal phase to sustain a pregnancy.