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fleckerbug in fam

Help! Wonky cycles, PCOS, hypothyroidism

Oct 03, 2007 17:45

Hi. I don't think I've posted before. I'm new to tracking my cycle and am still getting the hang of it. I have PCOS and am hypothyroid. I was taking Metformin for my PCOS, but have quit due to side effects, but have been taking 1000 mg(or mcg? whatever the dosage is 'supposed' to be) daily for the last few weeks. I'm also on Atkins. Since starting ( Read more... )

hypothyroidism, pcos, iud (intra-uterine devices)

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disturbedme October 4 2007, 02:39:38 UTC

I have hypothyroidism and my temps are still low and I'm being medicated. I guess some people wouldn't say 97.2 pre-ovulation is low, but I still consider it to be low. And yes, even though you have hypothyroidism you should still see an obviuos shift in temperature once you ovulate. I always have, unless of course I have an anovulatory cycle.

Post-ovulation part of the cycle is your luteal phase.

recuntulous October 6 2007, 12:56:33 UTC

I don't have answers, but I DO have questions! I also have a copper IUD, and I'm doing FAM just to keep track of my body and also maybe someday as birth control if I decide I have figured out the FAM enough ( ... )

disturbedme October 6 2007, 15:38:30 UTC

I sleep with my mouth open as well, but I don't think that will make your temps wonky (because my cycles look fine, all except for the few anovulatory cycles I have had). I have no idea if that would make temps lower than average either, but it would make some sense -- my temps are still quite low even though I'm on Synthroid ( ... )

recuntulous October 6 2007, 16:17:55 UTC

thanks for writing back!

I remember reading accounts here about people sleeping with their mouths open and their temps being fine. It made me think that maybe if you always sleep with your mouth open it might be fine, just lower (because the air you're breathing is cooler than your body temp) uniformly. Some days I do and some days I don't sleep with my mouth open. I did keep track, and my temperature was always lower when I could tell when I woke up that my mouth was open, and the vaginal temping is making a little more sense.

Thanks a lot for the thyroid info. I need to keep looking to find more specifics, and if anyone reading this wants to share, please do!

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flayre October 4 2007, 14:38:02 UTC

what's the url to your charts?

fleckerbug October 4 2007, 22:25:19 UTC

Hi. Sorry. I thought I had edited to include that!
http://forums.ovusoft.com/chart.asp?id=frecklebutt