Time to try another thermometer!

[cjsmith]

Ninety-nine point nine. I'm feeling pretty darn okay, oddly enough. (Not counting the rebound pain from going off Indocin this morning. Doc said if it isn't helping, forget it, so I did... but that leaves my feet and abdomen quite unhappy until I stabilize again.)

Maybe that one just reads high? Really high?

Now I'm trying the adorable pink thermometer that came in the adorable pink case and cost something like four times as much as the normal ones. You guessed it, gentle reader, it's a fertility thing. Its scale goes only to about 100.5 and I have no idea whether it is meant to be stuck under the tongue. Er, under the tongue of the lady whose temperature is being taken, anyway. Before you all leap helpfully to tell me -- I don't need to know. Honest.

Aw darn, the Fertility Thermometer agrees. 99.9 on the dot. Either my uvula is ovulating or I'm still sick. I think I don't need to know the answer to that one, either.

[PS: No, we're not planning anything. I own this adorable pinkitude because the regular thermometers were sold out.]

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

But pink is cute! Who cares how it works?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It *is* a lot easier to read (within its range) than the regular one. I suspect it's supposed to be very accurate. Sadly for my wallet, I have no need of such accuracy. :-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

You'll know if you're still sick, because you'll have enough of a fever to feel just crappy, no matter what the thermometer says. You've been sick for an awful long time. :(

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thing is, I don't feel crappy. I feel pretty good. Historically, though, I can get high fevers and I often don't feel crappy until they're way up there. I remember three-four years ago I felt "sick" -- "crappy", "sick enough to stay in bed", but not "really really sick" -- and I measured 103.6.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's supposed to be very accurate.

You'd think that and it would be great if it were, but it turns out no. I haven't found a good fertility book/site/doctor yet who recommended I get one except for one doctor who said that some of them have bigger digital readouts for us glasses people. Of course, you don't have to read it right away, she smirked.

No, these baby pink wonders are designed to get the pregnancy-minded to part with an extra bunch of money.

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

My pink wonder is as accurate as the three mercury-filled Ovu-index ones that preceded it (until they respectively got left behind in a B&B in England, broke, and in the last case, had the mercury stop moving for some reason). I think what's less accurate as I approach menopause is me. For years the before ovulation temp was 98.2 and after was 98.6. In some months that's still true, but in others it seems to change every day.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No, these baby pink wonders are designed to get the pregnancy-minded to part with an extra bunch of money.

Somehow, I am not at all surprised. Babies and weddings... (ka-ching)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Well, at least it's adorable. And hey, multi function! If Rob ever needs to know if he's ovulating, he can borrow it!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHA! I think all I would have to do to make sure Rob never borrows it EVER would be to write the word "ovulating" on it.

(Right now, just the fact I've touched it is enough. He doesn't want to catch this.)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

I don't blame him. I'm not particularly fond of ovulation either. But I didn't know it was catching...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Definitely catching. In some cases darn near the whole family's got it. After my mother and me, we were pretty sure my younger sister wouldn't escape...

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

I was the only one in my family who inherited this strange disease. Neither of my brothers caught it -- and now, none of my children have. So far, at least... Keep that pink thing away, and maybe they'll escape.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'll make sure to keep it away from them, then! Your family is lucky!

[samtosha.livejournal.com]

"Aw darn, the Fertility Thermometer agrees. 99.9 on the dot. Either my uvula is ovulating or I'm still sick. I think I don't need to know the answer to that one, either.

[PS: No, we're not planning anything. I own this adorable pinkitude because the regular thermometers were sold out.]"

LOL. There have been many occasions at my house when I could not find the regular thermometer and I have used the basal thermometer. One day my now 14 year old son asked me why it was pink and in my pre coffee fog I actually told him and he dropped it immediately :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's funny! (I hope it didn't break!)