If you are ovulating, you should get a period, if you aren't pregnant. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone who was ovulating, not pregnant, and not having periods.
The best way to tell if you are ovulating is to take your basal body temperature each morning when you wake up. When you ovulate, your temperature should rise due to the hormones involved. You can also take ovulation predictor kits but those can be misleading for women with pcos just because our hormones are messed up in some cases. (See the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler. It's great at explaining the nuances of the menstrual cycle and reproduction/ovulation in easy to understand language.)
You can have your period but not ovulate. I've never heard of the reverse situation though.
Last edited by AngieB901; 04-05-2009 at 07:38 PM.
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