Under what circumstances do you "discard" temperatures on FF?

bananers

My temps are sort of all over the place. I try to make a lot of notes so I can detect any patterns, and when I look at my chart, the biggest spikes were when I was drinking, had poor sleep the night before (sometimes the two are related), and one time when I had a bad dream and woke up all sweaty. There are also some times when I've hit snooze way more times than I should in the morning. I'm trying to train myself to temp the first time the alarm goes off instead of snoozing, but I'm a habitual snoozer so this is a hard habit to break when I'm half asleep and not thinking rationally.

I noticed FF has a checkbox to "discard" temperatures. What's the benefit in doing that? I haven't been discarding anything, but as I noted above, I've been keeping notes so I can explain away almost every weird spike. Curious if any of you discards temperatures,and if so, under what circumstances.

juliane2004

I discarded two temps in my Feb 2011 chart because I was sick and had a fever and the temps were SO HIGH (like higher than any pre or post O temp ever). Plus, they were on CD 8 and 9, so I knew I hadn't ovulated.

juliane2004

jefa621:

shhhhhhh...I never enter the time I actually temp on my chart.  I just say I do it at 6am every day, even if that's not really the case.  If I didn't, all my circles would probably be open.  I have still seen my temp shift every cycle that I temped.

OH! This for me too.