{"id":13,"date":"2019-01-24T17:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.oviahealth.com\/guide\/13\/tracking-your-physical-symptoms\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:52:36","slug":"tracking-your-physical-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.oviahealth.com\/guide\/13\/tracking-your-physical-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Aches, cramps, and swollen breasts: why you should track your physical symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to <a href=\"\/guide\/9\/tracking-your-basal-body-temperature\">basal body temperature<\/a>, <a href=\"\/guide\/10\/tracking-your-cervical-fluid\">cervical fluid<\/a>, and other indicators that can help you recognize when you&#8217;re ovulating, there are a number of general health symptoms that &#8211; if you pay attention to them &#8211; can help give you greater insight into your unique cycle and your fertility. Tracking these health symptoms can help reveal patterns that can also help you better understand not just your cycle and fertility, but also your overall health.<\/p>\n<h2>Which physical symptoms relate to ovulation and fertility?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mittelschmerz:<\/strong> About \u2155 of people&nbsp;who are ovulating will notice some slight pain on one side of the lower abdomen, known as mittelschmerz, which is German for \u201cmiddle pain.\u201d The cause of mittelschmerz is not entirely known, but most doctors believe it has to do with the rupturing follicle that houses the egg.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Backaches:<\/strong> Doctors agree that lower back pain is quite often an indicator of ovulation, much in the same way, and for the same reasons, as mittelschmerz.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tender breasts:<\/strong> Some&nbsp;individuals will experience tender or swollen breasts as they ovulate, due to their fluctuating hormone levels. However, tender breasts can be symptomatic of a variety of things, so the correlation between tender breasts and ovulation isn&#8217;t especially strong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tracking your ovulation physical symptoms with Ovia can help you learn a&nbsp;lot about your body and your fertility &#8211; and can make it easier for you to&nbsp;proactively address certain&nbsp;symptoms. The more you know, the better you can take care of yourself. Simply enter your symptoms on a daily basis, and Ovia will monitor them for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only does tracking your physical symptoms help indicate when you&#8217;re about to ovulate or menstruate, it can also help you detect patterns that could give you more insight into your overall health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141302,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ovia_author_name":"","ovia_author_prefix":"","ovia_author_image":"","ovia_content_type_id":"176","ovia_product_mode":"2","ovia_days_from_signup":"","ovia_days_from_lmp":"","ovia_days_from_baby_birth":"","ovia_days_from_enroll":"","ovia_health_module_days_from":"","ovia_article_for_email_days_from":"","ovia_health_module":"","ovia_legacy_id2":"13","ovia_ttc":"","ovia_article_subtype":"","ovia_health_symptom":"","ovia_partner_id":"","ovia_partner_custom_group":"","ovia_legacy_category":"115","ovia_legacy_category2":"","ovia_content_url_id":"21400","ovia_include_share_buttons":"","ovia_fertility_goal":"1,2,4","ovia_secondary_module":"","ovia_trimester":"","ovia_child_age":"","ovia_share_image":"","ovia_more_menu_image":"","ovia_button1_url":"","ovia_days_from_postpartum":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"fert-category":[24,33,43,12,19,10,16,17,18],"preg-category":[],"parent-category":[],"fert-tag":[156,158,159,157,191],"preg-tag":[],"parent-tag":[],"class_list":["post-13","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fert-category-fertility-signs","fert-category-health-and-wellness","fert-category-how-to-use-ovia-fertility","fert-category-ovulation","fert-category-preconception-planning","fert-category-reproductive-health","fert-category-reproductive-healthcare","fert-category-reproductive-issues-and-conditions","fert-category-trying-to-conceive","fert-tag-ovulation-cycle","fert-tag-ovulation-symptoms-and-signs","fert-tag-ovulation-testing","fert-tag-ovulation-tracking","fert-tag-patient-self-advocacy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Learn about the physical symptoms of ovulation you should tracks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What are some of the common physical symptoms of ovulation? 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