First time temping - need some help understanding it

[Blob23]

This is my first month temping, I have been using my watch and a thermometer every morning 6am, I have very sporadic cycles, some months they're 24 days next month could be 34, they've been 30 days long the past 3 months so that's why I started temping, I'll post a picture of my chart, it spikes up at day 9 implying I ovulated around then, since then my temps have been getting lower and haven't gone back up, I already suspect I have low progesterone but this month I've got sore boobs, burning nips, I'm struggling to stay awake after work, something just doesn't seem right 😪 2nd year ttc, had a mmc last year and nothing since then, I'm taking multivitamins daily with an extra vitamin d
According to my chart I'm now 6dpo but I'm not sure if I can go off that or just go off my boob pain that started yesterday morning?

Hi @Blob23 this is also my first cycle tracking BBT.
From what I have read online usually you get BBT spike day after ovulation day, which would mean your LH peak day was CD8.
Although that seems really early in a cycle. Is that normal for you? Do you track LH too?

I usually use the digital ovulation tests by clearblue and they showed a peak usually between day 12 - 18 as i have odd cycles, but I'd ran out this month so decided to try temping with my watch, I thought that's what it showed too but is day 8 not too early? I feel like i have ovulated, getting mild cramps the past 2 days so not sure if that's now ovulation, just very confused and don't understand why my temps are going down instead of up 🙈 thank you for replying xx

Unfortunately it's going to be impossible to tell until after the fact, which is why bbt can be so frustrating!

Personally (as in, if I were you) if the OPKs generally show consistent ovulation between CD12-18 I would assume that the first dip/rise was not your ovulation as your temperatures haven't stayed raised, and I would say the dip you're currently experiencing could be ovulation. But I don't know your other symptoms - my boob pain tends to start on the day of ovulation so it's quite consistent and I'd rely on that as backup in this sort of situation. But I'd make sure I had sex around any dip tbh if only using bbt this month.

Are there any other reasons your temp could have risen for a couple of days? Bad sleep, inconsistent temp taking, feeling a bit unwell (hayfever?), terrible sleep, stress etc?

I've just looked back at your graph and I wasn't really correct to refer to today's temperature as a dip as it's just returned to baseline hasn't it. I don't know, sorry! Confusing graph for you this month. Bodies are a PITA.

Screen grab it and put it on chat gpt.

I’m not an expert but I’d say you haven’t actually ovulated yet! Maybe those cramps you’ve had the last few days are ovulation like you say, so you might see a rise in the next day or 2. I think if you’d ovulated cycle day 9 your temps would of stayed high longer than 3 days