Basal Temp advice please?

[Blackpanther46]

Hi do we deduct 0.5c from mouth temp with digital thermometer? Also do menstruation cycles have affect any particular time better to do it?

I can only find advice that applies to mercury thermometer under the arm

Thankyou !

[Starsw]

Found this thread maybe it will help my body temperature is often in the mouth under 36 and that during the day nit first in the morning but then i am in my 60s so... healthunlocked.com/fibromya... Keep safe x

[Blackpanther46 in reply to Starsw]

Mine is aswell and I’m 47 lol

[Starsw in reply to Blackpanther46]

My sad feeling sometimes is that no amount or kind of medication can replace the real thing from our own thyroid, like people with diabetes on insulin it is never the same ideally if we could have an implant delivering the right amount of thyroxine at the right time but still if we do not convert T4 adequately or maybe we do in an uneven way or our cells don't hold to thyroxine as well they should what do we do? just like diabetics who have insulin resistance... then we try all we can to live the best we can. Then there is the genetic my Grand-Mother had Grave disease it destroyed her thyroid then she was on NDT I am talking in the late 40s after the WW2 and my daughter developed Grave disease age 11 our GP (this in London) did not have a clue, on my Chemist advice I changed surgery and ask to be seen by the best Dr there it took him 30 seconds to understand what was wrong with her then had it confirm by a blood test. She had a near total thyroïdectomie age 18 doing very badly on Levo she is now also on NDT she was ok..ish on T4 plus T3 sourced from Greece or Turkey but NTD is better. The fact is when one feel like crap for days and is unable to function and on the top of this has to argue with ignorant GPs. Do you take Selenium took it for a while it seems to help. Hope you will find some equilibrium. 🙂 Keep safe x

[Blackpanther46 in reply to Starsw]

What NDT is your daughter taking gosh she’s been through a lot so young . My grandma had her thyroid out as well at end of WW2 ! I don’t bother dealing with docs now I do my own blood tests privately and I take my own meds and vits. Yes I take selenium zinc magnesium b bits vit d iron and hcl enzymes ! Costs a lot but really helps

[Starsw in reply to Blackpanther46]

My daughter is taking thyroid S doing well on it she has around 6 months supply left she tried to go back to levo but because of supressed THS her GP put her on 50mcg so absurd such a low dose when she has no thyroid... So she became very indermedicated and gone back to NTD she also has asthma in fact when she was thyrotoxic she could not take Betablockers she was on Carbemazole for years but it was always difficult for her to be stable and her thyroid developped into a goiter and was very vascular... So when she had finished her growth we decided for an operation still not sure it was the right decisionIt was a long difficult operation the surgeon was very good (and good looking too my daughter used to say lol) the problems came after a year when she was on levo depression and putting on weight she lost most of it now but NDT really helped her it is another reason for me to try Metavive so she may have an alternative....

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Blackpanther46

This is a simple and easy to read article about comparing different thermometers:

wa.kaiserpermanente.org/kba...

I dare say there are different studies with lots more information if you want to dig deeper.

[Blackpanther46 in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thanks. @SeasideSusie it says deduct 0.5c for mouth digital thermometer so my basal is 36 c then that means