If you do get AF without ovulating, your temps will probably go back down after AF. But every person's different, you can't really predict this sort of thing ;)

It's also possible that you are going to ovulate very late this month, and thus AF will be late too.... If you didn't already know, there's a lot of common reasons for women to ovulate late: stress, illness, travel, weight gain/loss, change in exercise habits.... anything that can physically stress your body and make your body say, "this is not a good time to get pregnant; I'm going to wait to ovulate!" :) (My body seems sensitive to those sorts of things.... I'm late fairly often, but it looks like I still ovulate on those late cycles, I just ovulate late. Not pregnant yet though, so we'll see!)

Thank You for your reply. Maybe I will ovulate late, but I should have ovulated last weekend, so that would be REALLLY late. I think I may have not ovulated at all, but that seems strange too! It all seems strange to me! But I do feel PMSy, so I will probably start soon. I guess we will see:(

did you take your temp at the same time everyday? I noticed mine were all over the place when I don't sleep enough or I don't take it at the same time. Do you use fertility friend to chart?

Good point, according to the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility, you're supposed to take the temp at the exact same time every morning, immediately upon waking up (don't get out of bed or anything first!), and after at least 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep to get accurate results. As little as an hour difference in wake-up time can affect your temps -- for example, during the time change they said you should adjust the time you take your temp by 20 minutes a day to gradually shift to the new time.

Drinking alcohol the night before can also sometimes affect your temps.... illness with fever will obviously affect your temps... maybe certain drugs too? Not sure on that. Waking up an hour or two before taking your temp will also affect it, even if you fall back asleep.

(I charted temps for 6 months a while ago -- we weren't TTC yet, but I wanted to figure out why my cycle was irregular since a quack doctor scared me by telling me I wasn't ovulating at all. I *think* he was wrong because I do see temp shifts and CM, but I'm not pregnant yet so who knows! Now I'm just checking CM; if we don't get pregnant in a few months I might try charting temps again even though it's a pain!)

Hi may485! I was not very good at taking my temps everyday at the same time. But my temps have been VERY erratic. I was running a low grade fever last night 99.5 and then I took my temp this morning and it was 97.3, that seems very low for a post ovulatory temp. I am not exactly sure what is going on. I have had a headache and had the chills yesterday. But it seems like I did not ovulate...

I AM SPOTTING!!!! So des that mean that AF is here?!?! I am So confused! That would mean AF is arriving 3 days early. So any thoughts on this? It sounds like I never ovulated and I guess AF is here now..Ugh...SO frustrating!!!