Is bbt worth it?

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Do a lot of you guys use BBT? I feel like It can be easily swayed by not sleeping enough, drinking the day before, etc. I drank one night a day before i took it and my temperature was real high (in the range of ovulation) and I was nowhere near ovulation. And I knew this because I used the ovulation strips as well and i ovulated like 1.5 weeks later. I did do it before i got up and out of bed in the morning. I am starting to get the hang of using the OPK and was looking for something to sort of supplement with it so it’s the reason I ask. TY!

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Yes! Huge advocate for bbt. It literally saved my life and showed me something wrong with my cycle in 2017. It made me advocate more for my health and made me not just listen to several docs that told me nothing was wrong and made me look into getting further testing done. Docs didn’t listen for a while. I was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer in 2020 after begging for more test to see what was wrong. Fertilty friend app is very accurate with bbt and perdition and gives you tips daily and updates daily. When you temp you will know your cycle you will know when you ovulated, dpo, luteal phase length (is from the day after ovulation to period which stays the same each cycle give or take 1-2 days. Average length is 12-14 days give or take 1-2 days.) when period is coming by temp drop or if you miss your period and your temp stays up then there is a chance for pregnancy

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yes, there’s variation to temps but if you evaluating critically and discarding temps that don’t make sense in the case of the alcohol example, that’s not an issue. 
I tracked bbt for 6 months before actually TTC and found out I usually ovulate on cd18, I don’t think I would have known that for sure without bbt. We ended up conceiving on our first month with luck and I think bbt.

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Yes. It’s annoying but definitely worth it.

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Bbt never worked for me, personally I’ve always been able to base my ovulation around the ovulation strips I know once I get that dark line I have sex day before during and after spacing sex out about 20 hours and I’m usually set I know a lot factors into all of this but it’s what has worked with me 7 times now. The months I did follow bbt, it was always so easily swayed by my body temp being off due to so many things it was all over the place and never accurate for me.

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I have been tracking bbt for nearly two full years and honestly I’m ready to just stop doing it . Yes you will learn your ovulation day, but there is also ovulation test that do the same thing . It’s a known fact with most everyone you will have about two weeks before knowing for sure if your pregnant or not. My temperature is different every single month , I take temperature at the same time without leaving my bed or drinking anything or anything at all. I also have not drank since 2019 and I have not got a single issue health wise . But unfortunately my husband and I have only conceived one time in two years. We have been going to a fertility specialist for a few months now and she said there really isn’t any reason to keep up with bbt . Too many factors can alter your temperature and aside from knowing ovulation it doesn’t actually help you understand much else . - in my case - We were put under unexplained infertility, due to nothing being wrong with either of us . He has an amazing count and blood work and I have great results too and a beautiful lining and I’m ovulating every month . So it’s mainly just a matter of choice .

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I like it for confirming ovulation. My peak on opks sometimes happens several days before ovulation or sometimes I get an early peak that I know is not the time of my ovulation, but my body is just trying to ovulate. So if I were just going by opks then I may miss the window. It’s helpful too especially if you don’t have a regular cycle or if you may have anovulatory cycles.

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I hate it lol but I do it! I haven’t drank in a little over a month and yes it definitely does spike your temperature the next morning. So I haven’t drank and am doing the best I can with bbt’ing. I set my alarm for 3:30am. Sometimes I fall back asleep, sometimes I don’t.

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