So I was wondering what the general consensus was on this particular sort of situation: I have my alarm set to take my temperature every morning at 8 (any earlier and I won't get the right number of hours for it to be accurate, any later and I'll wake up before my alarm and whatever time my body feels is a good time, and affect accuracy). However, ( Read more... )

ETA My temperature seems to be dropping back down this morning, so I'm fairly confident that whatever was happening was a fluke or poor charting on my part (due to inconsistent waking times this month for whatever reason). I'm seriously hoping that temperature keeps going down, down, and down (though I still wouldn't mind thoughts on why my LP ( Read more... )

I've always wondered why some women have nice smooth temps and others have wildly spiky ones. Someone in the Lunaception thread over on Ovusoft mentioned that her temps settled down once she began sleeping in a fully darkened room. I'm curious to see what other people have found. I have nice smooth temps myself, with a clear thermal shift. I'm ( Read more... )

Nuvaring has totally been killing my libido and I am tired of it. I am almost done with grad school and in a long term relationship so even though I do not want to get pregnant now, I am ok with the slightly lower effective rate of FAM. This is my first month off of Nuvaring ( Read more... )

I thought it would be handy to have a list of factors which may change your temperature. I'll put the ones I've thought of here, and if people comment I'll keep revising the list, including moving things into different categories if need be as I'm guessing for several of them.

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Hi everyone. I've just started charting (after having read the book) and once I have it down I'm hoping to use fam as my method of birth control. I have a possibly silly question though ( Read more... )