15-2-2009 - Time Line

My mood while writing this blog: Inquizative

When your menstral cycle begins, your estrogen levels are low. Your hypothalamus (which is in change of maintaining your hormone levels) send our a message to your pituitary glad which send out the follicle stimulating Hormone (FSH). The FSH triggers a few of your follicles to develop into mature eggs. One of these will develop into the dominant follicle, which will release a mature egg and the others will disintegrate. As the follicles mature then send out another hormone, estrogen. The high levels of estrogen will tell the hypothalamus and pituitary glad that there is a mature egg.

A Luteinzing hormone (LH) is then released, referred to as your LH serge. The LH serge causes the egg to burst through the ovary wall within 24 to 36 hours and begin its journey down the fallopian tube for fertilization. The follicle from which the egg was released is called the Corpus Luteum, and it will release progresterone that helps thicken and prepare the uterine lining for implantation. The Corpus Letuem will produce progesterone for about 12 - 16 days (the luteal phase of your cycle) if an egg is fertilized, the corpus luteum will continue to produce progesterone for deveoping pregnancy until the placenta takes over. You can begin looking for pregnancy symptoms as early as a week after fertilization. If fertilization does not occur the egg dissolves after 24 hours.

At this time your hormone levels will decrease and your uterine lining will begin to shed about 12 - 16 days from ovulation. This is menstruation and brings us back to day 1 of your cycle.

Just figured I would share what I found