I think it’s very common for ovulation to move around. Traditionally, we’re kind of told in school that you’re ovulating on day 14 but that’s not necessarily the case and particularly is not the case if you have a shorter cycle than 28 days or a longer cycle than 28 days. We know that ovulation moves around. You can ovulate early for various different reasons and you can ovulate late and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s nothing to be concerned about.
This is an interesting question because we need to know or define what early means.
If you have a regular. let’s say, 26 day cycle then you will be ovulating around day 13 but one day maybe your cycle became 22 days – that’s very short cycle by the way – it’s still normal (but two words then maybe go check a doctor) – you will be ovulating on day nine so that could be considered early.
It’s not that it’s early, it’s just that the cycle was shorter. Your cycle is longer then you might ovulate late but it doesn’t mean it’s late – it just means that cycle is just long so the ovulation should come later. However, there can be a case in which your LH peak comes far too early in the cycle and then your period doesn’t come and it really comes far later but the only way to know that this is the case and this is happening is by charting your hormones – You know that your LH peak is the phase from your overall FSH, progesterone and LH cycles and this could be due to a hormonal problem or a hormone imbalance problem or something affecting the cycle, for example, could be polycystic ovarian syndrome, could be one of these conditions that make the peak come earlier therefore the ovulation comes typically in the first days of the cycle but the cycles are still at 20 or something days long. It depends what you mean by early. If you know that the LH comes on a day that doesn’t really match the calculations then that could be considered early and it could be a hormonal problem but if it comes early just because the cycle is short then there’s absolutely nothing to worry about.
Early ovulation in the cycle means a shorter cycle because we know that the majority of women after ovulation have a time period of around 14 days until their next menstruation. The earlier you ovulate in the cycle, the shortest cycle you will have.
