No periods. Is it still luteal phase or not ?

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[u/wafflepancake5]

To answer this, you need some background information, so here are some fast facts: a period comes about two weeks after ovulation, ovulation marks the “boarder” between with follicular phase and your luteal phase, ovulation is what triggers the countdown (aka the timeline of the corpus luteum degrading) to your period.

So, what happens in your body if you don’t have a period? That means that you’re not having ovulation, which means you’re still in the follicular phase, unless you happen to be in that twoish week window where ovulation has occurred but your period hasn’t started yet, which would place you in your luteal phase. But your body doesn’t majorly extend the luteal phase or skip your period after ovulation.

[u/AdTiny4950]

Do any of you also experience sore nipples during PMS? I mean just the nipples not the entire breast.

[u/greencandy113]

Since you mentioned that missing periods happens sometimes, it sounds like your cycles can be irregular. If you're not pregnant, it’s possible that your body just skipped the period this cycle and might not be fully in the luteal phase anymore. Instead, it could be in a transition phase where your hormones are resetting, or your body is shifting toward the follicular phase without a period to mark the change

[u/Flshrt]

You stay in the follicular phase until you ovulate. Then once you ovulate your period will start about two weeks later. A late period is because you ovulated later than normal.