1. ksabby
   Member

   I have a question about the way the system interprets the time of day you take your temperature.

   Usually, I take my temperature at 6:30am because that is when my alarm first goes off. One day, I had to get up an hour earlier, at 5:30am so I took my temperature at that time. Since I input the time I took my temperature does the system take that into account or should I be checking the box that says "discard"? (Similarly, once I took my temperature at 6:45 because I hit snooze in my sleep---should I have discarded that too?)

   When should I discard a temperature if I don't have a fever etc.? Should I be discarding if I am a half hour or hour later or earlier when I wake up? I try to wake up at the same time every day (at least long enough to take my temp) but sometimes I have to get up earlier, or hit the snooze in my sleep. How late is too late (past my regular time)? How early is too early (before my regular time)?

   I am asking because I didn't sign up and start charting until day 9 of my cycle, and this morning, my chart tells me that I ovulated on day 10, which happens to be the day that I woke up an took my temperature at 5:30.

   I realize that it is going to take a couple of months to get this charting down, but any advice would be appreciated.

   Thanks in advance.

   Posted 6 months ago #

2. fertilityflower
   admin

   Hey there!

   The way Fertility Flower works is that when you take your temperature in the morning outside of your usual time BY 30 MINUTES in either direction, the system will plot the temp with a hollowed out dot (instead of a solid one). Some women don't have huge variance in their temperature when they wake up earlier/later than usual and so they would just keep charting as usual. If you do wake up over 30 minutes earlier or later than usual and have a wonky temp, you can discard it but it's not necessary unless since it shouldn't effect how the system finds ovulation - because the higher level of temps has to be maintained over several days. Meaning, a one-off high temp shouldn't trip anything. But, that would be an example where a member might use Discard.

   If you check 'fever' as a symptom, the system automatically discards the temperature. That's the only time that it would automatically do it.

   Posted 6 months ago #

3. ksabby
   Member

   Since I took my temperature an hour early (and thus had a wonky LOW temperature) the system should have made that day a hollow circle, but it didn't. Instead, the system is making that day (day 10) my ovulation day. When I look at my chart, it looks fairly obvious that I actually ovulated on day 13 but now, even when I discard that wonky temperature, the system doesn't adjust it's calculation.

   While I am fairy certain that this is all my fault for not starting to chart my temperature on day one of my cycle, I am still really frustrated.

   Is it possible for you to look at my chart so that you can see what I am talking about?
   http://www.fertilityflower.com/user_chart?username=ksabby&type=normal&token=czgrbt63&date=2011-10-16

   Posted 6 months ago #

4. fertilityflower
   admin

   I've gone ahead and sent this to the programmer to look into. I agree that you probably ovulated on CD13 - that's a good guess. The system really shouldn't have plotted ovulation since you didn't have 6 days of low temps prior to the rise. Let me get back to you with what he's got to say about it! Hold tight!

   Posted 6 months ago #

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