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Natural family planning III. Intermenstrual symptoms and estimated time of ovulation

K Diane Daly, Thomas W Hilgers

  • Saint John's Mercy Medical Center
  • Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, Omaha, Nebraska. ROR

Obstetrics and Gynecology, 58(2), 152-155

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Abstract

Several periovulatory symptoms sometimes used in natural family planning are correlated with the estimated time of ovulation in 23 subjects and 64 hormonally normal menstrual cycles. The data suggest that intermenstrual pain may not be due to 1 specific cause but rather to several related factors. As a symptom of ovulation, intermenstrual pain was more specific than lower backache, abdominal bloating, and intermenstrual bleeding nonetheless, intermenstrual pain has a broad periovulatory association. The most reproducible and predictable sign of this series appeared to be the postovulatory occurrence of breast tenderness.

Topics

Fertility Awareness > Biomarkers > Intermenstrual SymptomsMenstrual Cycle > Ovulation Detection > Symptom CorrelationNaProTECHNOLOGY > Cycle Charting > Ovulatory Signs
Hilgers intermenstrual symptoms ovulation estimation, natural family planning periovulatory symptoms correlation, intermenstrual pain ovulation timing specificity, breast tenderness postovulatory predictable sign, mittelschmerz ovulation detection natural family planning, abdominal bloating lower backache ovulation markers, intermenstrual bleeding periovulatory symptom analysis, multiple ovulation symptoms menstrual cycle correlation, Hilgers Daly Prebil NFP symptom research, hormonally normal cycles ovulation symptom reproducibility

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Hilgers, T. W., Daly, K. D., Prebil, A. M., & Hilgers, S. K. (1981). Natural family planning III. Intermenstrual symptoms and estimated time of ovulation. *Obstetrics and gynecology*, *58*(2), 152-155.

Keywords

Adult, Breast, Family Planning Services, Female, Humans, Menstruation, Natural Family Planning Methods, Ovulation, Pain

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