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thirtyandmore · 29/02/2020 16:38

Not sure that my app is predicting my ovulation correctly...the graph shows my current and last cycle. Surely ovulation should be where the dip is or am I reading it wrong? Any help welcome...xx

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bernardswatchplease · 29/02/2020 19:09

It doesn't look to me that ovulation is occurring? The first half of your chart should be lower temps and then the last 14 days prior to AF should be higher temps. Your temps look up and down the whole way through?

BuffaloCauliflower · 29/02/2020 19:13

This looks pretty all over the place. It’s generally low for a period before your ovulation, before a rise and then stays higher. How carefully are you measuring? Roughly same time each morning, after roughly same amount of sleep, before moving at all?

Livingmagicallyagain · 29/02/2020 22:07

I can't see indication of ovulation here but it can take a few months to get used temping. Pp questions are relevant. And do you use a BBT thermometer?

thirtyandmore · 01/03/2020 00:55

Thanks everyone for replies - I have been using OPK to track as well which have shown positives and I do get ovulation pains and EWCM around the time of these peaks but they just haven't matched what I was reading on the graph so wasn't sure - thought the graph was supposed to be more accurate but now I'm not sure I'm doing it right. Hope that I am ovulating - I came off the pill at the start of December and been having periods since, however was on the pill for over 12 years!

@BuffaloCauliflower definitely don't have the same about of sleep each night. Have probably four hours more sleep when I'm not at work as have lie ins. Didn't realise this affected it, thought it just had to be when you first woke up? Have been recording BBT in the bathroom so I do move before doing it, but literally just to another room. Also often get up to use the toilet during the night so would this affect it?

@Livingmagicallyagain sorry not sure what you mean by pp question? Also not sure if it is a BBT thermometer - bought from the section where all the ovulation kits etc were in Asda but don't have the box anymore. How would I know?

Again thanks for replies xx

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Livingmagicallyagain · 01/03/2020 05:42

Pp means previous poster questions.

All your other ovulation signs sound good. I think it's simply that you move before you take your temp! That alters your reading. Keep your thermometer by your bed and pop it in immediately, literally moving only your arm go get it! As soon as your stir.

BBT thermometers usually have two decimal places.

YeahNahWhal · 01/03/2020 05:48

Internal temperature is more reliable than oral. Once I started that, my charts were clear as day. Good luck

BuffaloCauliflower · 01/03/2020 07:58

@thirtyandmore right your post explains this chart much more! Temps taken within 2 hours of a regular wake up time will be ok, but 4 hours extra sleep some days than others will be skewing your results. I’m usually asleep by 12, and take my temperature generally between 5-7am. If I slept till 9am I’d discount that day’s temperature because I’ve slept much longer. You need to have been asleep for at least 4 hours as well. You want to be as consistent as possible.

And when we say don’t move before taking it - that really means don’t move! You can’t get out of bed, as soon as you’re standing your heart rate goes up and effects your temperature. Keep the thermometer under your pillow and take it as soon as you realise you’re awake, before moving around too much in bed and definitely before getting out of bed.

If you’ve gone to the toilet and haven’t then slept for 4 hours again afterwards, discount it. You’ve got up and moved around so that’s changing your internal temperature. I often temp at 5-5.30am as I wake up then to go to the loo, then go back to sleep until half 6. If this is a similar pattern to you then temp before you go to the loo rather than when your alarm goes off.

These temps are measuring tiny changes at 2 decimal points, slight changes in sleep length, movement, sickness etc will have big effects.
I use the Natural Cycles app (was contraception but can also be used for TTC) which guides you through all these things and says when to discount a temperature. Might be helpful for you?

thirtyandmore · 01/03/2020 09:54

@Livingmagicallyagain @BuffaloCauliflower thank you this has been so helpful! Will give it another shot and see if the graph settles down xx

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thirtyandmore · 01/03/2020 09:57

@Livingmagicallyagain it's only to 1dp...back off to the shop I go! Realise now that I've been doing it all wrong! Confused xx

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BuffaloCauliflower · 01/03/2020 10:06

Good luck! You’ll get there. Just takes a bit of practice, and you definitely need 2dp or it won’t work.

In case helpful this is my last 3 cycles (I’m still in the last one) you can clearly see the lower temp and then rising to a higher temp after ovulation

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BuffaloCauliflower · 01/03/2020 10:08

These cycles also include days I was sick or overslept so discounted the temp, those temps then aren’t shown on the graph

thirtyandmore · 01/03/2020 11:26

@BuffaloCauliflower thanks can see how mine looks completely off looking at that, will download that app now and give it a try xx

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bernardswatchplease · 01/03/2020 14:28

I highly recommend the kindara app to track temps. There's a great community in there you can share your graph and people help interpret it

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