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Q: cold causing temp spike ?
asked by: cocoanddak on September 18th, 2008
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Hi there,
I went to my dr's yesterday, and he gave me tri-cyclen lo, NOT to use as bcp, but because I've have problems with menstruation for the last six months. I would actually like to get pregnant some time (any time, but I know right now it's not seeming to be working).
I took the first pill last night (need a baseline, I'm not regular, so he told me to start now). Now, I've been temping for the last few months, and decided to continue just to keep up the habit. It spiked this morning, rising a full degree.
I did have signs that I could be about to ovulate in the last week, but that seems to happen a lot with no ovulation ever happening (no spike except 1 in the last 5 months).
To (hopefully) fill in some blanks
- I did not have a bad nights sleep
- I do have a cold
- I do NOT have a fever (up for an hour now)
- I took One pill
- I have has Ov signs
Now, since hubby and I have had intercourse in the past few days, I don't want to continue taking the pill if I could do damage.
I'm wondering, could the pill have caused the spike? I know the cold could have (just a sore throat, no fever, no coughing).
Should I continue taking them?
TIA
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Dr. Nikola
replied on September 25th, 2008
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Can you please describe me more precisely, what spiked that morning?
Did you perform some kind of ovulation test?
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cocoanddak
replied on September 25th, 2008
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My temperature spiked that morning. By a full degree. It's okay now. I'e spoken to my doctor, and even if I did ovulate (which we're not sure) I started mentruating a few days later. I have begun menstuating every 2 weeks, and my Doctor is trying to figure outif I'm ovulating at all. I would like to fall pregnant soon, and I'd like to also solve whatever is causing this irregularity, so he's sending me to a GYN.
If you have any answers for that, then I'd love to hear them! But you'd probably need the whole history... if you want it, then I can give it, if you'd like to take a crack at this one!
Thanks
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Dr. Nikola
replied on September 26th, 2008
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Measuring the body temperature is one method for estimating the ovulation day. If there was ovulation, body temperature should rise for a little several hours after it and should stay raised till the end of the cycle. Much more accurate method for figuring out if you really had ovulation or not is to detect the hormone progesterone in your blood. If progesterone is detected, that is a reliable proof that you had ovulation.

Has the hormone progesterone ever been detected in your blood?

Birth control pills can't rise the body temperature so they didn't cause that temperature spike.

You shouldn't menstruate on every 2 weeks so the gynecologist gave you birth control pills to down regulate your menstrual cycle. You can't ovulate while on the pills but it is believed that after quiting them your body will establish the ovulations spontaneously. If birth control pills don't help you may need an ovulation stimulator to conceive.
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