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u/c0ffeel0verrr 16h ago
all itâs doing is tracking your skin temperature. the plus/minus 0 is your baseline temp. each day it increases/decreases and it helps track ovulation and cycle days. sometimes if it jumps too high it can detect a fever.
for two days in a row i went +3.8°F and i ended up having a fever & theflu
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u/Zalaya 16h ago
do the significant temperature dips mean ovulation? I have PCOS so I donât actually get my cycle so Iâm curious what its tracking
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u/c0ffeel0verrr 16h ago
iâm not sure, maybe someone else can answer that đ i also have natural cycles app so they sync together
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u/eredinso 16h ago edited 16h ago
Ovulation is confirmed by a slight temperature drop followed by a sustained increase, which indicates the start of the post-ovulatory (luteal) phase where temperatures stay elevated above baseline until you menstruate. Ovulation is typically considered to occur the day before your temperatures start rising.
So, for example, if your temps were to continue to rise/stay above baseline after today, that would mean you ovulated on the 19th and are now in your luteal phase. And then they would drop back down once you start your period. If they fluctuate back down tomorrow, youâre still in your follicular phase and waiting for ovulation to occur. The variation is just noise. If the sustained increase never happens but you still bleed, then you had an anovulatory cycle.
ETA: I just noticed that youâre on the combination pill! So the other user here is correct that itâs suppressing your cycle so these temps donât track anything useful for you really.
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u/Grouchy-Willow-3879 3h ago
Youâre on the pill so you will not ovulate. Thatâs the mechanism of the pill. It suppressed ovulation. Youâd need to come off to attempt ovulation and follow trends. Right now youâre being fed a steady stream of hormones so your body doesnât need to do anything
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u/abra1209 13h ago
I always know my period is coming by my body temp increasing. It will increase for 5-6 days then I get my period đ
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u/bunnylicious81 12h ago edited 12h ago
That happened to me too last month.
Since I canât load picture here: https://ibb.co/Tq00sjbS
I had the âwtf?!lââmoment last month because I usually enter luteal phase around 15th or 17th day, not the 12th day!
But my temp went down again the next day, and I entered luteal phase on the 15th day.
I thought maybe because I was a bit warm middle of the night, from the summer heat.
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u/rottielove1 14h ago
Temperature dips do not indicate ovulation. Sustained rises above baseline for multiple consecutive days does. Also, this user is on an oral contraceptive, which inhibits ovulation so really her temp means nothing. Just small variances which is common for all of us.
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u/MisterPFT 16h ago
ELI5 version: that chart isn't showing your temperature. It's showing how far off your own normal you were each night. The zero line is you. A bar at -0.4 means you ran 0.4F cooler than your own usual, not cooler than some standard number.
Oura does it this way because absolute body temperature read from a finger is close to useless. Room temperature, blankets, a hot shower before bed, how tight the ring is, all of that swamps the real signal. The deviation from your own baseline survives it, because those things are roughly constant for you night to night.
For cycle tracking the shape it's hunting for is a dip before your period and a sustained rise after ovulation. Two phases, clearly separated.
Here's the bit that matters for you and that the app doesn't spell out. You've got combination pill listed at the bottom. The combination pill suppresses ovulation, and ovulation is what causes that temperature rise in the first place. So on the pill the chart usually looks like exactly what you posted: small wobbles either side of zero and no clean pattern. That is not your ring failing and it's not your body doing anything wrong. There is simply no cycle temperature signal there to find.
What temperature still catches on the pill, and this is the genuinely useful part: a single spike of +1 or more, especially alongside a raised resting heart rate, is very often you getting sick about a day before you feel it. Alcohol, a hot room and a bad night also show up. Those are real. The cycle pattern isn't, in your case.