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CORRECTION — Women’s Health Q&A: What Happens to Your Eggs When You Don’t Ovulate

by Kristen King on May 15th, 2008

Last May, I wrote a post answering the question, What happens to your eggs when you don’t ovulate? Something I said didn’t make sense to one reader, and she was right about that! No clue what I was thinking. Here’s the comment:

Sarah
May 14, 2008 at 6:02 pm

I have a question - I was confused by the statement:

“Logically, then, if birth control prevents ovulation from releasing the egg into the fallopian tube, it would eventually just break down and be asorbed back into the body in the uterus.”

because the egg must travel down the fallopian tube in order to reach the uterus. So how does it get “logically … asorbed back into the body in the uterus” if it was never released into the fallopian tube?

Now, what I was TRYING to say was this that the egg would break down and be absorbed back into the body in the OVARY, not the uterus. Thank you to Sarah and her eagle eye for catching that. I apologize for the confusion.

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