digital fertility monitors

[chickster1981]

is anyone using one,

i have just brought the boots digital fertility monitor and was wondering if there just as good as using persona ect.....

hi
just saw your message , i have also just brought the boots monitor and started using it a couple of days ago , how you finding yours ? any luck yet ?
joanne x

I'm interested in the clearblue fertility monitor.
I wanted to know if it was any more benefit than just using the ovulation sticks. i think price wise it would even out as you still have to buy test sticks each month like persona.

I didn't see a Boots one. How much were they?

Hi Chickster,

I've got the Boots one, and it's exctly the same. I'm using it in conjunction with \link{www.fertilityfriend.com\this great website}.

Find taking temp in the morning a bit of a pain and stopped for a while, but decided to start again a couple of days ago.

You should use the temp chart for three months to get an idea of your OV date before spending loads of money on OV sticks.

Boots own is just as good as the oher stuff though: and cheaper.

The Boots fertility monitor is just a BBT thermometer isn't it?

I use a BBT thermometer alongside a ClearBlue fertility monitor, as they both tell you different things. The CBFM will tell you when you are most fertile, your temperature will confirm that you did ovulate (well, probably).

I really like the CBFM. I think the sticks work out cheaper than standard OPKs, and it's been detecting my LH surge quite reliably (even the last 2 cycles when I've been taking clomid!).

My temperatures were all over the place, and not showing very much at all, this cycle I switched from temping orally to vaginally, and I've found the temperatures a lot more meaningful and reliable.

There is a standard disclaimer to all of this (where's MeerKats when I need her?!), which is that no method is 100% reliable. When I had my first fertility consultation my consultant discounted all of my BBT charts as non-ovulatory, even though fertility friend had been happily detecting ovulation every month!

Hi Artoo

am here now, have only returned from my holiday today!!.

Artoo is right - no method is 100% reliable and particularly so when it comes to remp charting. One possible problem with it for instance is that you can get a rise in temp in the second half of your cycle when an egg has not actually been shed. Also such charts can become difficult to interpret accurately particualrly if the menstrual cycle is irregular.

'tis true, although they're still useful. Even if it's only to show your consultant!

I think use them if they make you feel that you're doing something positive, and don't if they stress you out.

Hello - I've just popped over from the Due in December thread - this goes with the usual disclaimer and there may be nothing in it but I read something somewhere about green tea helping to destress and make conception more likely. I went out and bought some and drank that once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks or so. We ended up conceiving on the first night of hols where we had just had a 2 hour plane journey + 5 hours in a car, I had a roaring cold and my neck had 'gone' - I could barely move my head. We know it was then because I felt so lousy when I woke the next day, there was no more action for a while!