Finding a reliable thermometer in Fahrenheit

[elettaria]

OK, I've given up on trying to find a decent basal thermometer in F in the UK. The only one that seems to be around is the crappy Fairhaven one with the pink bit at one end, which rushes taking the temp and gets it too low, messes up the memory function, only goes to one decimal place where it's meant to go to two, and makes the most infuriating

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[jchammonds]

I had good luck with mine - I'm not sure it was that same brand, but it looks the same. It received decent reviews on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Basal-Thermometer/dp/B0000X6GBO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1227987642&sr=8-3 I actually have two that look like that - I was on vacation once and forgot to take my thermometer so I picked one up at Wal-Mart. That one is definitely a different brand, but it looks about the same and worked well, too.

I had irregular cycles, but I was always able to detect O with temps - or not. I had one anovulatory cycle in that time.

I had heard good things about this thermometer: http://www.amazon.com/BD-Basal-Digital-Thermometer/dp/B000TQ4AVK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1227987642&sr=8-1 I bought b/c I thought it would be much easier to read with the backlight, but I wound up hating it. It only read to one decimal place - I prefer two, also - and I just hated using it. The beeping was annoying (I thought it would be good and keep me awake)... I just really didn't like it and I went back to the one I linked to before.

I hope you can find a thermometer you like!

[elettaria]

I'd call those fairly bad reviews, actually. A lot of people seem to be having the same trouble that I did. Did you get two decimal places out of it, and was the memory function reliable? Either way, since I and a lot of people have had those problems, I won't be buying it again.

There don't seem to be any reviews of it, but there's an Omron basal thermometer (only one decimal place, but by now I'm getting less fussy about that) which I found on eBay in the US fairly cheaply. Unfortunately the price quoted for shipping is quite ludicrous, and in my experience such sellers are deaf to protests of "but Global Priority only costs a few dollars!" Ach, there must be something.

[jchammonds]

IMO, 25 out of 34 reviews being 4 & 5 star means most people were reasonably satisfied with it. Yes, I had two decimal places and memory function worked fine for the year that I used it. But, if you had it and didn't like it, it certainly makes sense you wouldn't buy it again! ;D

Since something that seems like it should be so simple is turning out to be so difficult, what about using a Celsius bbt thermometer - if you can find a good one there - and then converting your temp to F? An extra step, but it seems like it might be easier than the quest you're currently on.

[elettaria]

That's interesting. I'd call that a pretty high rate of serious problems myself. If one in three thermometers are unusable or near-unusable, something is badly wrong.

At the moment, the possibilities seem to be either finding a suitable thermometer from the US, or getting used to Celsius. It's not so much the getting my head round the new numbers, though I'm sulking about that. It's more that I use the Medhelp.org ovulation tracker, and when I tried converting my current chart to C, it lost about 2/3 of the ovulation lines it had put in automatically. Not the end of the world, but those lines make it a lot easier to follow the chart since otherwise there's nothing obvious to indicate the start of your period (as I get lots of spotting, the line for entering blood flow isn't much help in this department, it all looks the same unless you squint at the individual letters), let alone ovulation.