Your temps tues-Fri am look more or less regular. I would guess monday is out of whack because you are still messed up from the weekend. You might want to consider simply not temping on the nights you stay up late
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I have not been able to successfully check my cervix/CM @ cervix at all. I don't think I know what I'm supposed to be feeling there.
Waking myself up at 6:30 on karaoke weekends would probably be a good idea. I was so focussed on 5 and how that wouldn't work, but you're right. 5-6:30 isn't that big a difference. At least it would be a much closer range for the chart.
TCOYF reckons that temps rise by 0.1 deg for every half hour you sleep in past your usual temping time, so yes, 0.3 deg would be enough of a difference to confuse the chart. In practice, it seems that this affects some women (me, for instance) but not others. About the only way to tell is through personal experience. Similarly, I can get away with going to the loo or answering the door for the post in the morning, as long as it's at least half an hour before I temp, and can also manage on very broken sleep or lying dozing in bed before I temp, where many women can't.
Since you're TTC, it's not the end of the world if you make mistakes. I was also wondering about OPKs or whatever other people like as backup methods.
Your temps are a bit on the low side, any chance you have thyroid problems?
Yes, my thyroid is hypo. I'm on meds for it, but I have yet to see a temp shift. Though, perhaps that has to do with how early I am taking my temp now. My last cycle temps were slightly higher.
Tell you what, you have several different options here from what I can see. Continue as you're doing now, continue temping at the same time but change when you exercise, or change when you temp on weekends. Why not try a cycle with each option and see which works for you best? Experimenting is often the only way to find out what works in this sort of situation. Other people's experiences may give you some clue but it's such an individual thing, what works for another women may not work for you.
By the way, how long have you been temping, and are there any particular patterns you've noticed, apart from the lack of fertile CF? Are you planning to do anything to encourage fertile CF?
My last cycle actually seemed pretty open and shut to me. I even think I had EW CF for a day (I say think because I did have sex the day before.) FF had no problem determining ovulation based on the info I put in.
I haven't been temping for long. I got frustrated with it before I found FF because my temps were so low, I couldn't graph them on the sheets out of TCOYF. And then I wanted to give the hypo meds time to kick in and yadda, yadda, yadda.
I'm trying to get three consecutive charts to take with me to a gynecologist who also specializes in fertility.
What is sad to me is I remember when I was young and had no idea what was going on with my body that I would have the EW cervical fluid like crazy. I hated it and it drove me nuts because I didn't understand it. It would just flow out of me. And now? I feel dried up. So, I'm looking to fix that because we really want children.
Is there something I could be doing that wouldn't require a doctor?
Is there something I could be doing that wouldn't require a doctor?
Having enough sex. I know that sounds obvious, but, well, for some people it's not. Sex every other day and every day you see fertile CM.
You need to learn how to find your cervix. I think TCOYF has a section on this. When squatting (sitting on the edge of a toilet or bed works well) put your fingers in your vagina. Reach in there. It can help if you bear down with your abs too. Your cervix is firm (like your nose) as opposed to everything else is there, kind of like a small round/oval ball at the end of your vagina. I promise it's there and you can find it! Check the CM there by sort of sweeping with two fingers from the outside to the inside and then pulling your fingers out. Again TCOYF has instructions and pictures of what a cervix looks like so you can know what you're looking for.
I was also going to point out this .1 degree per 1/2hr mentioned in TCOYF. It works very well for me normally. They suggest .1 degree for every half hour, up to 1.5h, and it works the other way too (add .3 degrees if you woke and temped at 5:30 rather than a normal time of 7, for example).
When my waking times were exceptionally erratic for a while, I even set up my chart as though I woke up at 7:30 normally, even though my normal actual wake time was 7, to account for the days when I slept until 9.
I think that's a great suggestion-- it looks like if you waited on weekends to temp, you may see a more even temp pattern.
I tend to have higher temps during my period, so your temps for CD 6 to CD 13 are between 96.5 to 97.1.
Also, if you're TTC and you don't use CM as an indicator, you may want to purchase OPKs so you can detect your LH surge. By the time you see a temp shift, you've already ovulated and it's a little late for trying to conceive! Good luck.
Thanks! It's not that I don't want to use CM, I definitely do. It's just that for at least a year, if not longer, I haven't witnessed EW. Maybe a few times. But most of the time, I have creamy CM almost all month. Or none.
And, checking the cervix hasn't been successful for me yet. It sucks how much of my body I'm completely clueless about.
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Waking myself up at 6:30 on karaoke weekends would probably be a good idea. I was so focussed on 5 and how that wouldn't work, but you're right. 5-6:30 isn't that big a difference. At least it would be a much closer range for the chart.
Thanks!
We're TTC.
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Since you're TTC, it's not the end of the world if you make mistakes. I was also wondering about OPKs or whatever other people like as backup methods.
Your temps are a bit on the low side, any chance you have thyroid problems?
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I haven't been temping for long. I got frustrated with it before I found FF because my temps were so low, I couldn't graph them on the sheets out of TCOYF. And then I wanted to give the hypo meds time to kick in and yadda, yadda, yadda.
I'm trying to get three consecutive charts to take with me to a gynecologist who also specializes in fertility.
What is sad to me is I remember when I was young and had no idea what was going on with my body that I would have the EW cervical fluid like crazy. I hated it and it drove me nuts because I didn't understand it. It would just flow out of me. And now? I feel dried up. So, I'm looking to fix that because we really want children.
Is there something I could be doing that wouldn't require a doctor?
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Having enough sex. I know that sounds obvious, but, well, for some people it's not. Sex every other day and every day you see fertile CM.
You need to learn how to find your cervix. I think TCOYF has a section on this. When squatting (sitting on the edge of a toilet or bed works well) put your fingers in your vagina. Reach in there. It can help if you bear down with your abs too. Your cervix is firm (like your nose) as opposed to everything else is there, kind of like a small round/oval ball at the end of your vagina. I promise it's there and you can find it! Check the CM there by sort of sweeping with two fingers from the outside to the inside and then pulling your fingers out. Again TCOYF has instructions and pictures of what a cervix looks like so you can know what you're looking for.
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When my waking times were exceptionally erratic for a while, I even set up my chart as though I woke up at 7:30 normally, even though my normal actual wake time was 7, to account for the days when I slept until 9.
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I tend to have higher temps during my period, so your temps for CD 6 to CD 13 are between 96.5 to 97.1.
Also, if you're TTC and you don't use CM as an indicator, you may want to purchase OPKs so you can detect your LH surge. By the time you see a temp shift, you've already ovulated and it's a little late for trying to conceive! Good luck.
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And, checking the cervix hasn't been successful for me yet. It sucks how much of my body I'm completely clueless about.
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