Reasons for low body temperature after ovulation

After a woman's menstrual cycle, her body matures and she will have an ovulation period every month. Ovulation refers to the development of the mature follicle to a certain stage, and then rupture. The secondary oocyte and its surrounding zona pellucida and corona radiata are discharged from the ovary along with the follicular fluid. Many women will experience low body temperature during ovulation, so why is this? Do you all know? Now let me introduce to you the reasons why body temperature is low after ovulation.

In general, women's body temperature is slightly higher than that of men of the same age. Women's body temperature is higher before menstruation, and drops by about 0.2-0.3 degrees during menstruation. By ovulation, the body temperature usually drops another 0.2 degrees, and then rises suddenly. During a woman's pregnancy (usually 3-4 weeks), her body temperature may remain slightly elevated.

A normal person's body temperature fluctuates to a certain extent every day, and the fluctuation of adult women's body temperature is also related to the menstrual cycle. During the menstrual cycle, women's basal body temperature is often lower before ovulation. Normally, the body temperature before getting up in the morning (i.e. basal body temperature) is below 37 degrees, about 36.4-36.6 degrees. After ovulation, it rises by an average of about 0.5 degrees and remains there until before menstruation, when it begins to decline.

If the menstrual cycle has always been regular, but this time the menstruation is not on time, and the basal body temperature remains above 37 degrees for more than three weeks, then after excluding other fever conditions, early pregnancy can be considered. The day after a woman ovulates, the corpus luteum forms in the ovaries and secretes progesterone, which causes the body temperature to rise by about 0.6 degrees Celsius, causing the body temperature to change between high and low phases. The high temperature period lasts about 12-16 days (14 days on average). If there is no pregnancy, the corpus luteum shrinks and stops secreting progesterone, the body temperature drops, returns to the baseline, and menstruation occurs. If a woman is already pregnant, the corpus luteum is supported by the hormones secreted by the embryo and continues to secrete progesterone, so the body temperature remains high. If the ovaries are dysfunctional, there is no ovulation and no corpus luteum is formed, so the body temperature will remain low.

After reading our introduction to the causes of low body temperature after ovulation, have you eliminated some of your worries? However, you cannot ignore any small symptoms from the body and must understand them. If you feel that the introduction we provided to the causes of low body temperature after ovulation is not perfect or want to understand the causes of low body temperature after ovulation in more depth, you can go and ask a doctor.