Does your BBT go up if you are warm?!


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Does your BBT go up if you are warm?

Hi there! I started taking my BBT this week for the first time. I am in South Africa and it has been very cold here. The past week I have been very cold at night and my temps were fine. Last night i dressed in VERY warm clothes and socks and my temp is up with nearly 1 degree celcius! Can your BBT go up if you are hotter or does your internal temperature stay the same?

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3 weeks ago
One degree celcius up, which is 33 degree F??


Answers:

Basal body temperature is the body temperature measured immediately after awakening and before any physical activity has been undertaken. In women, ovulation causes an increase of one-half to one degree Fahrenheit (one-quarter to one-half degree Celsius) in basal body temperature (BBT); monitoring of BBTs is one way of estimating the day of ovulation. The tendency of a woman to have lower temperatures before ovulation, and higher temperatures after wards, is known as a biphasic pattern. Charting of this pattern may be used as a component of fertility awareness.

So I guess it has nothing to do with out temperatures only with inner changes. If you drink a hot drink it might raise your temperature a bit for a short while but I suppose the warm cloth can also hike it up a bit - 1 degree is not that much is it? :)




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