Low Basal Body Temperature Ovulation
Your basal body temperature bbt is your lowest body temperature in a 24 hour period and it increases slightly right after you ovulate.
Low basal body temperature ovulation. Although bbts are not a very effective way of timing ovulation. Basal body temperature and ovulation prediction. In my 15 years of practice i ve seen tens of thousands of bbt charts. It can also help your doctor detect possible ovulatory infertility.
Basal body temperature charting is a decent way of retrospectively confirming ovulation at the end of your cycle but it s not very good at pinpointing exactly when it happened. One of the many changes that take place in a woman s body during her menstrual cycle is an increase in body temperature. When your basal body temperature rises higher than the temperatures you ve recorded in the past six days and stays at this level or increases for at least three days it s likely that ovulation. If you are concerned you aren t ovulating bring your bbt chart to your gynecologist.
44 years experience in fertility medicine. I quickly started recognizing distinct relationships between the waves of a woman s bbt chart and her ovulation patterns quality and quantity of cervical discharge estrogen and progesterone levels fsh egg quality and likelihood to present with pms. Bbt or basal body temperature charting allows you to predict ovulation based on charting changes in your body temperature throughout your menstrual cycle using a special thermometer called a basal thermometer. In the first phase of the cycle bbt usually stays below 98 6 f 37 c.
Your body temperature dips a bit just before your ovary releases an egg. Using a special thermometer you can track your basal body temperature over time to estimate when you ll ovulate and figure out your most fertile days. If taking your temperature every morning were effortless that would be one thing. Basal body temperature low after ovulation.
Before ovulation a woman s bbt averages between 97 f 36 1 c and 97 5 f 36 4 c. A low basal body temperature can be noticed suddenly or it can be constant. Most often bbt falls between 97 52 98 24 f 36 4 36 8 c because of low progesterone concentration. Then 24 hours after the egg s release your temperature rises and stays up for several days.
Right before ovulation basal body temperature usually drops with a sharp increase right after ovulation.