One more question about times. Today I woke up about an hour earlier than past couple days and went to bathroom took my temperature before getting out of bed. it was 96.89 , and then back to bed for an hour. And retook temp at normal time it was 97.28 so what would the better temperature be. The earlier one before get out of bed or the normal time by 1 hour. What is more accurate
had a peek at your chart, and had a couple questions, which may not seem related to your question, but i'm sort of a chart nerd, so:
is the temp you're talking about already entered in FF as 96.89 on tuesday? or have you left today's blank because you're not sure which to use?
i looked at your chart from last month and i'm actually wondering if you ovulated around CD17 or 18 but that the positive OPK on CD13 is making FF give you cross hairs on 14. have you tried switching your Ovulation Detection settings to FAM? that setting only gives cross hairs based on temp values (3 temps higher than the previous 6 will give you cross hairs), which i sometimes find helps me figure out where the actual temp rise is. on Advanced (the default) any positive OPK will trigger it to mark what FF thinks is ovulation, even though a temp rise is the only thing that confirms ovulation.
i think last month FF is giving you a cover line that's a little low compared to the temp shift. after a couple cycles, you'll likely find that your cover line is roughly around the same degree, but in the first couple months, it's hard to tell.
for a minute, just say your cover line is around 97.3-97.5, and the temp shift between CD18 and 19 confirms you ovulated (sometime between the positive OPK on CD15 and the temp rise on CD18), then AF shows the day after your temp drops back below the cover line. ALL that to say that the difference between 96.89 and 97.28 doesn't really affect your chart too much because both are still under the cover line. if that makes sense? since last month's post-O temp went up into the high 97s, low 98s, a difference of a half degree this early in your cycle is probably not enough to throw FF off
i have had the same thing, where i worried so much over which temp was "right" but, honestly, i think you could put either
either the "too early" temp and it'll be a circle because the time is off
OR
the 2nd temp and check the "sleep deprived" box since you didn't have 3 solid hours of sleep beforehand
sorry to write a total novel...i love talking out numbers and patterns and trying to figure things out. though, i also think sometimes it's impossible to "figure out" what our bodies are doing
just have to keep temping and roll with it. at the end of your cycle, you'll likely be able to see a pattern. and that's all temping can do, it's much more useful in hindsight, unfortunately.
for what it's worth, here is my chart (https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/50e7f1) and you can see i got a positive OPK on CD12 and FF on Advanced wanted to mark, by default, the next temp rise as ovulation, but i doubt i ovulated on CD13 because i was still getting a positive OPK on that day AND there was no serious temp rise like the previous 2 months. so i set it to FAM and got cross hairs on CD15, before the big spike. i'm sort of believing right now that i Oed somewhere between the positive OPK on CD13 and the temp rise to confirm ovulation on CD15. but i don't think it's entirely possible to know *exactly* when, just that my temp rose, so i did indeed ovulate at some point.
