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If my LH surge is low, does that indicate weak ovulation?Updated 6 months ago

Our hormones fluctuate from woman to woman and cycle to cycle. The pattern of the curve is more important than the absolute value. When ovulation happens, you should see a sudden increase in LH concentrations, although the peak value can vary greatly. You may not have to necessarily reach "high" to ovulate. 

In most cases, women ovulate when LH surges. Very rarely, you may have an anovulatory cycle, which means the absence of ovulation. Your LH still surges, because your ovary is “trying” to make it work, but for some reason, the egg couldn’t break out from the ovary so it was not released. This happens rarely but is found more frequently in women with PCOS. You can see more of this here: https://www.miracare.com/blog/anovulatory-cycle-explained-what-is-it-and-how-to-prevent-it/ 

In case this happened to you, you will still want to test for the LH and baby dance at the LH surge of your next cycle. This is because the LH surge is still your most possible ovulation timing during a cycle. And there is a very high chance your ovulation will make it to the next cycle because an anovulatory cycle should be rare. There is no exact way to confirm the egg actually goes out from the ovary unless you go to the hospital to do an ultrasound every cycle around the ovulation timing.

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