low temps?

Hi All
Have just started taking temps... can it be right that they are around 35.3-35.8???
this seems low to me, and lower than the sheet my chinese dr gave me to track them goes...
any tips?

Hmm....that is pretty low. Do you mean by chinese Dr a chinese herbalist/acupuncturist?? Or that your Dr is chinese? lol.
If it's the acupuncturist/herbalist one then they will be able to help warm your body up for conception and tell you what foods to eat, etc.

LOL she is a herbalist/acupuncturist!! I have asked her as well, that does seem LOW!! could explain why it took 12 months last time, esp as I am now suposedly on day 15 of cycle...

My temps were low when I was TTC, and the acupuncturist got them up within one cycle. Pre-O, they hovered about 35.8 (low) and post-O they were about 36.3-36.6.

Your temps do seem a bit low.

HTH and good luck.

thanks! so maybe that has been my problem??? i will spk to her about it.
it took me 12 mnths to get preg last time, so maybe that was an issue..
i am so glad i am getting this all sorted
must say i am also glad to be tracking, i was actually worried i was taking the temp wrong but maybe it is more someting i need to work on

my temps are also very low.

my chart: 21b4cf Ovulation Charts

did any of you other girls have any issues with ttc with low temps? If so, how did you get around it?

When I was temping & TTCing last year I noticed I had lowish temps.

Pre O 35.8 to 36.2 after O 36.3 to 36.4 - quite a bit lower than most charts I saw.

It didn't stop me getting pregnant though - I had 3 pregnancies in the one year (the last one was successful). It also made it easy to suspect a pregnancy by looking at the temps as when I did get pregnant my temp would shoot up to 36.8 to 37 which it didn't do in non pregnant cycles. I also experienced temp dips (two or three day ones) on implantation.

As long as you can see a higher temp in the second half of the cycle you can be pretty safe to say that O has occurred. I don't think it matters if the temps are lower than other peoples, it's just how they change within yourself.

By the way, those 3 pregnancies happened at the age of 41 when I'm supposed to only have a 5% chance of conceiving each month so I don't think low temps really matter.

My herbalist said that to concieve my temp needed to be 36.2 ... well I concieved on one of two days that I was this temp of trying for 8mths with their herbal formual & I might add I was 39years old with my 1st bub... we had a healthy lil girl ;)

I wish you the absolute best (and yeh, the temp chart is a great method) :D

wow interesting info - thanks all
i had a 30 day cycle this time... much better than before i was doing the tcm and acupuncture...last time i was ttc the cycles were around 14 wks at the beginning (6 wks was shortest)
Spoke to herbalist re temps - she thinks they are ok but we are working at getting them up a bit too... it did rise at o so not too concerning but good to get them up a bity i think (this month so far they look higher a little)
hope you are all going well!

Hi guys,

Good to hear your success stories with lower temps! One less thing to worry about now. :D

From what I have heard low temps can be a result of hormal imbalances. I had low temps after having DD1 and the doctor put me on progesterone cream. After 5 months my temps increased and my cycles regulated.

Now 10 months after DD2 my temps are a little higher but not "normal" and I have been taking a herbal formula from a naturopath. She thinks I have a sub clinical thyroid condition. So far the herbs have not helped at all and my last cycle was 37 days long. I had really flat temps and I did not O until day 27. Then I had 4 days of spotting before AF.

I will give the herbs one more month and then I'll go back to my doctor and get progesterone cream.

I had been tested for hormone imbalances and all was OK yet I still had low temps.

Anyway, I've been into FF & found my successful chart with Brock. On O day my temp was only 36.0 so it is indeed possible to get pregnant with a low temp. My temp had been at 35.8 for the two days before O.

V interesting Satya...
I am not too concerned about it now and I dont think mine are low enough to have a major impact - though i may rethink that if ttc doesnt work for a long time. interestingly this month they are up a little on last month
BekZ - hope the herbs work for you...

Out of curiosity, what did you do to get your temps up? I am considering seeing an acupuncturist, but am not sure what exactly to as for! lol I've got low temps too, but I've also got Polycystic ovaries so it's a double whammy. :( Did you also take herbs to help with your temps? Congratulations with your pregnancy!

Thank you in advance!

hi there
my tcm helped me get my temps up a little through diet (i think it will depend on your 'diagnosis' - i was ying deficient so had to eat 'ying' foods at the start of my cycle), herbs and acupuncture. i must say they never got to the high level some ppl get even at the start of my preg, so i am prob just predisposed to lower temps overall... but it did get more consistent (and obv i fell preg anyway). I would recommend seeing a trad chinese med practitioner for a good wholistic approach. good luck!