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When we went on our honeymoon to Europe (I think we had a 10 hour time difference?), my temping also became really screwed up. Luckily, my CM charts stayed the same, and my cycles were fairly predictable at that point.
How do you feel about using a "back-up" method of birth control during your honeymoon? We used condoms to be safe, but you could use whatever form you'd be comfortable with. If you are not interested in using artificial bc, though, I think home ovulation test kits could be a good alternative. They're pretty accurate, and might give you the additional info you need to make a decision about your cycle and intercourse. Hopefully, your NFP counselor will be able to give you more accurate advice!
Okay, very good to know about your temp sign being messed up! Maybe I'll play with ovulation kits ahead of time and see how well they line up with the temp rise for me. I can't see how time-change would mess up the actual hormones... right? It would just mess up the means of figuring them out by taking consistent temperatures. Thanks for your help!
I think that the time zone change just messes with your bodies normal sleep/temperature cycles making ovulation harder to chart. Only going an hour away didn't change my chart any, but going multiple hours away/dealing with jet lag/being on a completely opposite time schedule definitely screwed up my temping. Hopefully, ovulation test kits will make up for the wacky temps or your counselor will be able to suggest something else. Good luck!
When you're changing just two or three timezones, you can also try to adjust in advance. So if you temp at 7 a.m. EST and are going to Pacific time, for the days leading up take your temp later by half-hour intervals. That way there is no one jump in temp times. The trouble of course is that at a certain point you will need to get out of bed, and it wouldn't work for a trip across the ocean.
The second thing is that you can still calculate an accurate chart with missing or abnormal temps. You knew that a sudden 98 degrees on a day when you had traveled and gotten jet lagged was weird, so you can count that as an abnormal temperature and not include it in the calculations for the temperature rise pattern. The days that followed also showed a decreasing temperature pattern, whereas you need a rise. It's also important to keep tabs on your mucus read when the temperature sign is wonky (like would also happen if you get sick). If in doubt, wait another day.
For fertility monitors, we heard good things about the LadyComp in our NFP class. I haven't used it myself (it's kind of expensive), but it's supposed to be really effective in identifying safe days.
Also, you mentioned some cycle irregularities. If you haven't already, check out Fertility, Cycles, and Nutrition.
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Hi... wondering if anyone can help me. I have had one experience with time-zone change since I started charting 3 cycles ago, and it made a complete mess of my chart--I traveled from EST to PST (so 3 hours west), and I took the advice of my STM manual (to take temp on normal waking the next morning and then keep taking it at the same time while there). I woke up at 7:30 the first morning, so I kept taking it at 7:30 for the 5 days I was there. I usually take it at 7:30 EST. But anyway, my temp shot up from 96.9, which it had been very consistently before the trip, to 98.0 the first two days I was on the west coast, then 97.8, 97.6, 97.5 the following days. My body thought it was 10:30, apparently. When I got home, it was 97.3 for one day (although I took it an hour late) and then went back to 96.9 and stayed there until the normal temp rise. My cycles are really irregular (28 shortest, 65 longest in the last 2 years), so the first "rise" when I flew to California could have been the actual rise for the cycle, because I traveled on cycle day 14. (The only difference is that my rise usually only goes as high as 97.7 or .8, rather than 98.0.) I didn't find out until I got back and it went back down that it wasn't the real rise. (Well, I suspected after the 97.6 day, I guess, that it was dropping.)
Anyway, the point of all of this is: Does that happen to anyone else, and if it does, what happens to your temps when you travel from west to east? My next time-change experience will be our honeymoon, and we're hoping to go to Ireland (5 hours east, I think?). Obviously I have no idea where I will be in my cycle, since it's still 4 1/2 months away and my cycles are so crazy, but I want to have some idea of whether I'd still be able to see a temp rise even after the travel, if I was on the Phase II/ Phase III border. I am temporarily on a medication where they strongly suggest not getting pregnant (although it's not one of those absolute no type medications), and I'll have to be on it for a few months after the wedding, most likely, so it's pretty important to us not to conceive until I go off it (although not completely tragic if we did). And you know... it would be kind of nice to be able to have sex on the honeymoon is possible... :o)
I will definitely talk to the NFP counselor, too, but the communication there is by mail and has been pretty slow, and we're hoping to buy plane tickets soon and want to know what the potential charting situation is before we decide for sure. We won't buy them until after we talk to her, but I was just curious, in the meantime, so we can at least start looking at plane tickets.
My other question is whether anyone has used any hormone-measuring devices. I know they're unreliable and that you're not supposed to use them normally, but we were thinking that maybe alongside mucus and cervix signs, they might be a decent third sign if time change threw off the temp sign.
Thanks for reading all of that!! :o)