take pity on a thicko - temperature

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forgive me for my general thickyness about this stuff. ive tried searching the internet but i cant work out exactly what its saying

basic question: - is there any difference in your temperature for the phase between ovulation and period depending on whether you are pregnant. i understand that there might be a dip in temp for implantation and that if you are not pregnant your temp drops a day or so before you come on.

what i dont understand is whether you are hotter if you are preg and that hotness keeps on coming.

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Heh! I clicked on this to see if I could help and I have been namechecked!

If pregnant, your temps should stay high/increase. You might get an implantation dip but I have had dips in the luteal phase when temping and not been preggo.

As I understand the science behind it, it is the progesterone released by the corpus luteum after the egg is released that causes the temp rise after ov. During pregnancy, progesterone levels increase again, so the temp stays up or increases. If your period is coming, progesterone starts falling around the time AF arrives. The galleries on fertility friend are useful for this (you can search ovulatory and pregnant charts to compare).

Hope this helps!

i have tried looking at those galleries but i cant seem to access them. i suspect i need an account.

so basically a normal post Ovulation rise will take you to A but if duffed the progesterone will continue to increase after that normal rise taking you to A+

aka sweaty bollocks

very helpful, thank you

Yep, that's the deal. Although personally I didn't feel hot when diffed.

This isn't quite true, the temperature when preggo is not necessarily A+, it could be A or I have even had A-/B, with a lower temp than previous ovulatory cycles on my last child!!!!

Only a few women get a tri-phasic chart, and even a tri-phasic chart does not necessarily mean pregancy.

The difference with pregnancy is that the temperature remains above cover-line beyond normal luteal phase. Or more accurately temperature still above cover line at 18DPO.

I hope this helps.

its all a bunch of arse isnt it. basically.

it is a bunch of arse, but so much time to be spent. Get a FF account for sure. You don't have a job do you? Might want to give that up. I love a good chart.

My temp seems to stay fairly hot when I'm on my period and I really feel warm too and I didn't see much of a dip last month until a few days in. But then I generally use my period as an excuse for because I can!

Love it. I can imagine many a happy hours whiled away charting blissfully. But I plan to avoid it for the time being at least.