Temping Question

[winecheery]

As I've said I'm not strictly temping. I've been giving it a half assed go, just to kinda get a feel for it.

So take that for what it is, but I was still curious: My normal temps (every other day-ish) after AF go from 97.6-97.73. I show a temp of 97.7 a couple of days ago, and then yesterday I dropped to 97.29 which made sense, because I was due to O today, and I got a +OPK. But then my temp today was 97.5

As a rough estimate, would that suggest O yesterday, and that I have a slow rise coming out of it, or that I will O today still...orrrr not at all?

I know this is a crap shoot since it's sporadic data, but please humor me. I feel like I'm in science class! (I knew any form of temping would be bad for me; look it, I'm already showing signs of addiction! lol)

TIA

[Deleted]

I've been having several days (at least 3-4) leading up to O, then a sharp rise of least half a degree sustained for at least 6-10 days after O. The one low day sounds like an anomaly to me.

[winecheery]

I thought your temp dropped right before O, then rose again after??

[mrssandro]

Yeah I can't visualize that at all. Just go put it in Fertility Friend. It's free and is so much easier to enter it in and it does the work for you.

[nevafaye]

That happened to me last month, but not the month before. I don't think there's really much of anything normal other than temps in this range, then an uptick, and then temps in a higher range.

Every other "should" happen temp thing seems to be that it happens to some and not others and doesn't necessarily mean much (drop right before O, implantation dip, etc.)

This is why I temp and do OPKs. They seem to really be the only thing to trust that mean something mid-cycle.

Also, it's easy to get crazy analyzing every drop and spike.

[Deleted]

Winecherry, go to Fertility Friend and look at their chart gallery. They have like a gazillion different charts and they're all categorized. Then just compare yours to the ones on there:-) That will probably help more -- a picture's worth a thousand words, right?

[winecheery]

I plugged the numbers I do have into FF, but I'm having trouble deciphering what it shows me. I think if I have a temp tomorrow that climbs or sustains it'd be likely that I O'd as predicted. I got a +OPK, it wasn't too strong, BUT, because I couldn't hold it for 4 hrs (more like 1.5) I went for it like it was 100% +, just in case it was like a diluted sample or something. I drink a ton of H20. I dunno, I'm still figuring things out.

Thanks tho ladies.