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Calling all charters: What is going on here?

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Pipbin · 12/02/2012 11:04

So this is my first month of temping. I have charted for a while but just used OPKs and to keep a record of BDing.

I had a positive OPK on Friday but still no OV according to my temps. Can someone take a look and tell me what they think is going on?
Cheers

www.fertilityfriend.com/home/3525a6

I have a 35 day cycle as a rule btw.

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Pipbin · 19/02/2012 15:26

This is going to sound so grim but what is putting me of it that we generally SWI before going to sleep. Therefore, even though I have been to the loo after SWI, my fanjo could be cleaner.

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pippilongsmurfing · 19/02/2012 14:23

pipbin, typical man!! I may try fanjo temp testing, and see if the results differ, if it's supposed to be more accurate. Hmm

homeaway · 17/02/2012 14:30

Nice DH pipbin, I reckon if men had to have babies we would not have any at all :) Smurfing a flexible thermometer is easier to use when you are half asleep !

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Pipbin · 17/02/2012 11:11

The thermometer I got from Amazon here can be used in your hooha.
DH asked if I should be using it up there this morning. I said that I could but I didn't want to. He said, 'well there is too much getting shoved up there anyway'!

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pippilongsmurfing · 17/02/2012 10:41

thick obv. doh!

pippilongsmurfing · 17/02/2012 10:40

do you need a special fanjo thermometer? Or am I being really think?!

kalidasa · 17/02/2012 09:59

Yes I think it can be a good idea to try doing it vaginally if your chart is hard to interpret or your thermal shift is not very marked. I've always just stuck to my mouth because even though my temp does go up and down quite a lot my overall 'range' of temps is wide and the thermal shift has always been v. clear. Worth considering though if you're having probs.

Squirrel77 · 16/02/2012 21:56

Apparently doing fanjo temping is will give you more accurate and consistent temps. I'm on my second cycle of fanjo temping, and my chart looks way less rocky. It is sometimes hard to hear the beep though! (And DH thinks it is hilarious)

pippilongsmurfing · 16/02/2012 11:47

Mine has a memory too, but I don'y find I get higher temps from pots than in mouth.

At the start I was taking it orally, then doing under armpit, and was the same, did antibac it inbetween armpit and mouth though btw!

homeaway · 15/02/2012 19:15

Lucky you, wish i could snuggle back down to sleep instead of flying out of bed. Hope u get your bfp this month . Let us know ! I found loads of info on charting in the toni weshler book as well as on her site so have a mooch if you have time.

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Pipbin · 15/02/2012 16:57

It does have a memory. At the moment I'm off work (half term yay) so I'm waking up, sticking a thermometer in my mouth, pulling it out when it goes beep, then inputting the temp into fertility friend later.

Tbh it's the thought of taking it in my lady bits is a bit icky.

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homeaway · 15/02/2012 16:47

Pip, does your thermometer not have a memory so that after it beeps if you switch it off accidentally it shows you the last temp? The thermometer that i have for charting is a bendy one :). I get way higher temps if i take it under my pits.

pippilongsmurfing · 15/02/2012 14:10

I have been doing mine under my armpit, as didn't want a dry open mouth or drinking anything accidently first to affect the result.

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Pipbin · 15/02/2012 12:26

You are right homeaway I just can't bear the thought of sticking that up my foo foo each morning. Anyway, I'd never hear it beep.

I'm just wondering if my sore throat is enough to raise my temperature.

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homeaway · 15/02/2012 11:27

You umm could change the way you take your temp as in (dare i say it vaginally ) . Doing it that way stops the whole question did i sleep with my mouth open etc... it is more reliable. Running off to hide now :)

pippilongsmurfing · 15/02/2012 09:42

Pip, I have a sore throat too! How weird.

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Pipbin · 15/02/2012 08:58

Well done to eurochick it was indeed Sunday. Wine

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Pipbin · 14/02/2012 22:18

Now it turns out I have a bit of a sore throat. I hope that's not stuffed up my BBT.

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Pipbin · 14/02/2012 16:26

I think this is it Pippi, charting has given me something to do. I'm a facts and figures kind of girl and if I can look at percentages and the like then I'm happy.
Also, now that I have started charting with temps I can see that all the times I have just used OPKs I have missed O'day. However this time I have managed the regulation every other day over 'fertile week'.

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pippilongsmurfing · 14/02/2012 15:11

pipbin - for me, the charting does make me feel like I'm actively doing something positive towards getting that BFP, iyswim? So I am definately going to carry on with it.

I'm going to do another test if AF has not reared her ugly head by Friday.

kalidasa · 14/02/2012 11:10

Charting does give you some reasonably reliable sense of when you'll ovulate, but only when you've done it for quite a while. (I charted for contraception for years.) For instance, if you notice after six months that you always have 2 days of 'watery' cf followed by 2 days of 'egg white' cf and then you ovulate (confirmed by temps) the day after the second ew day, then with a bit of experience you'll have a good idea each month of when ovulation will be, even if the actual day of it moves around. So one month that sequence of 2 w + 2 ew + o-day might start on day 9 and you ovulate on day 13, the next month it might not start until day 12 and you ovulate on day 16 but you'll have an idea of what's going on.

Obviously this does take experience though, and even with lots of experience there are always some odd months - e.g. if you get ill or very stressed in that 'run up' period that often delays everything. And I know some women don't see much cf at all which makes things harder.

It may be worth tracking mood/libido/energy and things as well. The most obvious signs for me that I'm 2-3 days off ovulation are a) ew cf (though sometimes this lasts for quite a while) and b) a very high sex drive! The latter sign is never wrong! Tbh, I think if I knew absolutely nothing about my cycle I'd always end up having most sex at the most fertile time anyway

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Pipbin · 14/02/2012 10:24

Clearblue monitors seem to be a lot of money.

I guess that charting will give me a better idea what has happened, and the knowledge that I am ovulating.
It also makes me think that I am actually doing something.

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pippilongsmurfing · 14/02/2012 09:30

I was hoping charting for this month would give me advance warning for next month, iyswim?

Hope fully it will!

homeaway · 13/02/2012 20:25

Chick is right, you only know you have ovulated after the event. You can spend lots of money on a clearblue fertility monitor if you want and that will give you some more advance warning. Egg white cm is a good indicator that you are approaching ovulation and you will find it will dry up afterwards.

eurochick · 13/02/2012 20:09

FF will almost certainly give you crosshairs for Sunday.

Unfortunately charting doesn't really give warning of ovulation, only hindsight on when it happened. So it is good for getting to know your cycle but you need to be dtd anyway. I find it useful to know when we can stop doing it on a schedule and go back to doing it when the mood takes us!

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