Temping Question - please help
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Topic: Temping Question - please help
Posted By: Salifer
Subject: Temping Question - please help
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 9:22am
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Hope this isn't TMI but I took my temp last night and it had dropped from the usual 36.8 to 36.4. So I was nervous AF was on her way.
Woke this morning to a temp of 36.4 (most have been 36.5-36.8) and waited 5 mins before hopping out of bed, straight to the loo where I took the temp again and this time it was 36.6. I know you should take your temp while you are still in bed and before you get up, so realistically I should dis-regard the 36.6........but if the temp of 36.6 was within 1 minute of getting up, can it still be counted? Can your temp rise 0.2 in the matter of 1 minute and 8 steps to the loo??? Please put me on the straight and narrow!!! |
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 9:38am
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um i think that you have to disregard the one that was taken after getting up because its amazing how fast your temp goes up after movement!
I use to do that and before i got up it was around 36.3 then when id get up it would shoot up to 36.7!! Also you are meant to wait 5 minutes while you are in bed before you take it incase you slept with your mouth open which would give you a much lower reading 
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Posted By: Salifer
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 9:46am
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Thanks Baysmum, will remember that tip (did wake with a wee sore throat so perhaps I was breathing through my mouth!!! - visions of snoring now enter my head - ha ha ha).
I know I should disregard the temp after hopping up, just clutching at straws here in the hope that AF isn't coming - don't mind my temporary madness!!!! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 9:51am
Could of been the mouth open thing?? maybe try to ignore today and do tommorows after having your mouth closed for 5 minutes  
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 9:59am
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Disregard the 36.6 i know how much we want our temps to be nice and high. I find if u mostly sleep with your mouth open your temps are ok but if not u may need to look at temping elsewhere
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 10:06am
I sometimes went from sleeping with my mouth open then closed depending on the weather really but doc just told me to wait 5 minutes as i was NOT going to the other region!!
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 10:57am
Jess you just shocked us all into sleeping with our mouths firmly shut!!  -------------  |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 12:49pm
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hahaha
Thing is that if u temp vaginally u dont have to shove the thermometer right in lol its just the tip haha I always take my temp as soon as i wake coz i find sometimes there are drastic changes in temperatures even within 5 mins coz ur body is awake and warming up. U ideally want to have ur resting temp  But everyones different all that matters is that you get the clear shift for ovulation.
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Posted By: Salifer
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 5:12pm
| Just took my temp and its the HIGHEST its ever been: 37.1.............will be waiting with nervious anxiety for tomorrow's temp....... |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 5:22pm
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good luck Salifer i hope you get your BFP. i know how frustrating it is and after a while i started a diary just so i could ramble on to myself about everything and not let people think i was going nutts!! ...although after just telling you that little secret i probably already sound a little cookcoo!!!
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 6:21pm
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Salifer, I'm really sorry, but it makes a *huge* difference taking your temp when you're up and around, and throughout the day - you really need to chart that 'first thing' temp and use that to judge how your cycle is going. My temps fluctuate quite a bit during the day and anything past my waking temp doesn't mean a thing. My temp this morning was 36.3 which is low for me for CD6 but around where it should be, and I just took my temp now, so I could make a comparison for you - and it was 36.8, which is about where my temps sit after ovulation. Do you see what I mean?
I really, really don't want to upset you, but generally if your temp takes a dive around when AF would be due, AF will turn up in the next day or so. I know so well what you're going through, and it's completely horrible. I really hope that you get a BFP, but all I'm trying to say is please be careful not to make things harder on yourself. I'll be thinking of you and hoping for the best!  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 6:22pm
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Oh dear ...I sound an absolute witch in that post. Please know that I am concerned and worried for you, and that's where I'm coming from. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |