How Do I Know Which Side Im Ovulating

I feel a "twinge". Interesting that someone said the other tube takes over....that's great! Ask your OB/GYN.

You would have no way of knowing. Like Sonya F. said, your doc could show you what's going on with ultrasound. That would be the only way for concrete evidence. Some women claim to feel a slight twinge but most of us don't.

If you have both ovaries and they work as nature intended they would take turns but our bodies do crazy things. The fallopian tube has nothing to do with with ovulation. If you don't have your right fallopian tube obviously the egg would have nowhere to travel once it's released but lack of a fallopian tube doesn't prevent ovulation.

Our Gynecologist had a small ultrasound machine in office. I believe this is the only sure way to determine which side is starting to ovulate. He was able to show us on the screen- it was pretty obvious.

From what I understand, you don't ovulate from the bad tube. Your other tube can make up for months that the opposite side isn't working. This happened to me. It was my "off" month, but I got pregnant anyway.

For me, I have one tube that is scarred over due to an ectopic pregnancy, and when I ovulate on that side it is more achy than the "good" side. But as others have said, most women can't distinguish from which side they are ovulating.

Just a couple comments about a couple other replies:
Typically you don't ovulate while you're having your period; if you're "regular" you would most likely ovulate mid-cycle/2 weeks before your period.
Also, your fallopian tube is not what releases the egg, your ovary does. My ob/gyn told us, after we discovered my damaged tube, that the "good" tube can actually reach over and collect the egg from the damaged tube side. Nature wants to perpetuate the species. I've had two kids with only one tube. No worries.

Sorry if this is graphic, but sometimes if I take my tampon out early, when it's not totally full, only one half of it will have blood on it, and it seems to me like maybe that's the side? I'm not sure, because it all comes down the same canal, but it never fails that it always seems to be on one side or the other when the tampon is not full.