Where to place the coverline?

[nightsinger]

So here's an odd "where do I draw my coverline" question.

If your body tried to ovulate, your temp shifted for one day and then fell back down, you didn't ovulate. So, you disregard that temperature when drawing your coverline when you do ovulate, right

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[kort_ni]

I will say ahead of time that I am not going to be very much help in answering your question. When my body gears up to ovulate but doesn't I can only tell based on CM. My temp never raises and then drops back down. If my temp raises and drops back down, I personally wouldn't exclude it (unless there was another reason for exclusion) and I wouldn't confirm ovulation until 3 of my temps were .2 degrees above the previous 6 (even if some of those previous 6 were higher than I would expect) but that's because I am TTA.

Just based on your temps (and I rounded off to the nearest tenth because I don't due hundredths and it was confusing me) I would draw a coverline at 97.6 as long as I had 3 above 97.7 just to be safe. If I didn't have that, then even though it seemed like I had ovulated, I would still wait for the shift. I would just be wary of dropping all of those temps but if it's something you feel fine about doing, then by all means, drop them and draw the coverline where it falls.

With all that bouncing, it looks a lot like my cycle last month ...started of looking very anovulatory and I didn't get a temp shift until about 4-5 days after I think I actually ovulated. So I totally understand the frustration with knowing your body has ovulated and not having the temps to back it up, but for me it's better safe than sorry to wait on the temp shift

[nightsinger]

Mine does tend to bounce up a bit when it tries to ovulate and fails for whatever reason, so I'm used to disregarding aberrant temperatures in order to allow me to draw a coverline... I've just never seen it do this so many times in quick succession. XD

My last cycle was anovulatory, too, which was very frustrating. XD But after that ended, it's been pretty normal for me (pre-O temps averaging 96.90 if we include the "ovulation attempt" numbers; 96.84 if we don't... Average of 97.54 for the LP temps so far), other than this ovulatory bobbling; I'm wondering if, perhaps, my body just needed to get back in the swing of it?

I guess we'll see. :)