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Hi Archie
I am a regular, most of the time a silent reader of this site. I have seen many times that peoples ask u for advise. just wanted to know that r u a doctor ( a gyne)? if yes ( which i think is yes from your replies), i wanted to know why do you think it's a ovulution time rather than pregnancy symptoms in your answer for curious cat on 4/17/06. I am also trying to conceive from last 3 years , no luck so far. also i wanted to know what is CT 11 means? ISn't the ovulution time is mostly between 11-15 days. please answer my questions.i hope u will read my message this time b/c i ask u the same thing in that cc message but i think u didn't read it. One last question, is it important to have crumping or light bleeding, frequent urination as the early symptoms of pregnency?
thanks
archie replied. simmi,
I can't retrospectively go back to CC's message, but I think I remember her symtpoms. They were not in her last week of the cycle. If such symptoms occure around 5-7 days prior to expected period then one would suspect pregnancy, again those may not be due to pregnancy and could be due to elevated progesterone levels -common for luteal phase (post ovulation).
BY and large for those who have 26-30 days cycle they would ovulate between CD11 to CD15. This is only if the cycles are very regular otherwise one would need to combine BBT, CM and if possible use of OPK.

cramping, freuquent urination and bleeding may be signs of early pregnancy, but I don't think bleeding and craming is must sign. Frequent urination can be seen but in many cases that's idenfified almost in 6th week. So suming these are not the only signs to judge if you are pregnant or not.
Archie