Is measuring your temperature useful?

[Greekmyth]

I started using the ovulation strips this month plus digital clear blue for ovulation and both were helpful.
im just wondering is it worth also measuring my temp? and why if you are using the strips is it good to do both?

how does it help? And if anyone has any good thermometers as a suggestion to use

Thank you ☺️

I did it for a while, no success - used the ovulation things (ones like a pregnancy test where they say fertile/not fertile I think) worked 1st month. We'd been trying for a couple of years and I was 38. I had been pregnant before though albeit not to full term so i knew I could get pregnant if that makes sense.

An accidental pregnancy I mean.

I used natural cycles to plan pregncey.
Temp done every morning
Worked for me.
35 year old. Was on the pill since the age of 16
Came off and started using natural cycles.
Three cycles in and we had our dreams come true.
Currently 30 weeks pregnant

I intend on using natural cycles for preventing pregnancy once baby is born. To hell with hormonal contraceptives!! X

Temping is useful to check you've actually ovulated - you can get a hormone surge that the strips pick up, but this doesn't necessarily mean you've ovulated.

Also, not what you're looking for when TTC, but a temp drop gives you a warning that AF is on the way. My temp dropped this morning and AF arrived at lunchtime.

Ah ok this is useful to know.
thank you.
so if I do my temp everyday esp around ovulation my temp will rise when I’m most fertile?

I think I ovulate after my LH surge as I can almost feel my ovary release the egg.

sorry if I’m being a bit thick!

No, temp will rise after you ovulate. So you'll get you LH peak (and by the sounds of it feel ovulation!) then a day or so later your temp will go up. I think it's something like a sustained rise of at least 0.3 degrees indicates ovulation. And your fertile period is the days up to and including your LH surge.

Thank you x