Simple BBT Guide

It's good when you decide to BBT charting.
Memang macam bosan, untuk orang yg susah nak track setiap hari. kadang2 terlupa.
Kadang2 rasa boring sebab baru 2 3 minggu chart tengok takde ape2 berlaku pun.
tapi if u ask my opinion yang dah hampir 2tahun berBBT ni, dia bagus utk kita tau what your hormones are doing. 
I've posted about this before at this entry "Guidelines for us who are TTC Clueless" , tapi tak cerita banyak;

What to do when you dont understand what is a BBT and how to chart, and what is it for? 

BBT is a Basal Body Thermometer. kita boleh beli thermometer tu dekat Guardian. i dont know other brands but the famous one is Omron. BBT ni untuk detect ovulation, kalau korang punya cycle normal. tapi kalau tak normal pun, kita boleh BBT utk nak tau what is happening to our body. to be precise, what our hormones are doing. Kalau taknak guna BBT, boleh pegi jumpe doc untuk blood test je no problem tapi adakah kita rajin nak pegi buat blood test semata2 nak tau condition hormon kita?
Chart tu pulak, boleh download, boleh signup dekat FertilityFriend atau mana2 website charting. kita boleh pin point suhu badan kita setiap hari kat situ.
For more information, GOOGLE.

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Ok no need to google lah kalau just nak baca kat sini. :D 

When u buy the thermometer, dia memang ada provide Chart utk kite fotostet, so boleh guna utk pinpoint suhu. TAPI, di zaman yg serba canggih ini, signup je dekat fertilityfriend.com tu, terus kita leh catit symptom2 kita setiap hari dkt situ.

Setiap hari sebelum bangkit dari katil, letaklah thermo tu bawah lidah dan tunggu sampai bunyi, tgk brapa suhu anda. guna Celsius la senang. 
selama sebulan, before ur next period, OR its best to chart at your 1st day of menses. 
then leh tgk hari ke 14-18, ada suhu yang drop, and terus naik mendadak tak. 
Macam BBT INI:

This is a sample BBT from FertilityFriend.com

Clearly, she ovulated on Day 15, and got her period on Day 28. so she had a 28 CycleDays. 
See, her BBT dropped and she got her menses. Lepas line tengah2 tu, BBT dia maintain high, so progesterone is taking over, lepas lepaskan telur. so mase ni lah journey of the eggs+sperm ke uterus. disebabkan progesterone tgh high, uterus dia pun dpt signal utk menebal utk get ready to receive the eggs.
But the uterus failed to receive the fertilized egg, jadi uterus lining die shred, lepastu estrogen pulak yang take over, and she got her period.

Tapi! kalau pregnant, your BBT will look like THIS:

This is a sample BBT from FertilityFriend.com

So if u are asking urself, pregnant kah aku? selain dari tunggu nak period atau beli pregnancy test, u can know thru your BBT.

i know BBT is VERY ACCURATE sebab when i was on fertility treatment watever la since last 2years, lepas je doc bagi ubat utk kuatkan rahim before i knew i had a chemical pregnancy tu, memang my BBT was SO HIGH, jadi confident la mende tu masih melekat. tibe2 dia drop! then i know, it failed, dan bleeding terok. KALAU, BBT masih HIGH, and u bleed, most probably u are still pregnant, jadi utk kepastian sebab tu kena buat blood test and hPT. 

Macam mana nak tau yang kita dah ovulate?
by the time ur temp DROP, and esoknya raised up high for more then 10days OR, RIGHT after u get the COVERLINES. coverlines tu auto-generate.
kalau kite nak tipu pun boleh hahaha, kate la u just main2 je letak suhu rendah 36.30-36.40 dlm 14hari. then u try buat 36.12, esoknya u terus buat 36.55 KE ATAS selama lebeh 3 4 hari, mesti coverline tu muncul indicated that u ovulated! 

Macam mana nak tau kite pregnant?
When ur temp high for more than 16 days, and u still dont get ur period. so better do a HPT to double confirm. kalau negative, wait another week or go and see the doctor takot something else!

tapi kalau tgh on hormonal pills, dia boleh kacau BBT. kdg2 eventhough u are not pregnant, kalau ambik duphaston, konon utk kuatkan rahim lepas ovulate, u can get false hope.
hoping that u are pregnant, padahal sbb pill tu yg buat BBT tu naik.

for PCOSers, expect to get LONG CHART like mine, and expect to get chart like rocky mountains. sebab kita nya hormon tak stabil, sebab tu, i know from my chart, i am NOT pregnant sebab i know that im lack of progesterone :( AH biar lah. dah taknak pikir. :P

well i guess i've helped a bit. u can ask me questions kalau takfaham ye :D 

Ps: anyway not all doctors like the idea of charting. Some doctors may think u are clever for monitoring your fertility your own, but some doctors think that BBT is not accurate all the time. Sometimes they can change just because u have light fever, sleep late, toooo stress, too tired, so doctors wont take your BBT seriously. Taktau la your doctor tapi I have met 4 gynaes and ALL of them macam tak yakin pun dengan BBT ni. Tapi macam mana2 pun, sekurang2nya we can know our body better thru BBT. 
I knew my body better because of BBT.