Possibly stupid FF/alcohol use question

FJM85 · June 2014

I literally only started charting and temping this week, so please be patient with me

I know that alcohol can have an influence on your BBT. I had close to a bottle of wine yesterday evening, and this morning noticed a rise in my temprature of .6•C (not sure what that is in F).

My question is, do I marking drinking yesterday when it happened, or today when it had the influence?

Sorry if this is a stupid question!

evalyn24 · June 2014

I think this would probably be your preference. I would make a note on yesterday and then discard today's temp if it's out of the ordinary.

FJM85 · June 2014

Thank you! I was wondering whether I should discard it. I think it was probably made worse by the fact that I barely got any sleep!

FJM85 · June 2014

Well, the rise could be more due to lackof sleep then. I only got in bed at 1:30 AM, and was awake by 5AM, with lots of waking in between!

tlc35 · June 2014

I personally mark drinking in the morning. I consider it a temp that is affected by drinking. So I guess it doesn't matter where you mark it other than whenever makes sense in your head so you remember.

4RingCircus · June 2014

For me, Alcohol only seems to affect my temp if I have more than a couple drinks. That is when I mark it. Crappy sleep doesn't seem to do to much to my temp either. I do note both though.

catlover790 · June 2014

My temp seems to be very easily influenced by drinking (more than 2 drinks) and time I wake. I would make a note of it for the day that it changed, I usually type a note that says "drank lots last night" so I know. I would leave it for now though and see what it does in a few days. you said it was .6 higher which is higher but not super weird! if after a few more days it bothered me I would go back and discard it later.

catlover790 · June 2014

jefa621 said:

I really don't get the mentality behind marking something on a day it didn't happen. You don't mark sex the day after you have it. You don't mark acupuncture, exercise, or illness the day after you have it. Why would you do that for drinking? Boggled.

I understand what you mean. I usually do it because when I use FF on my ipad it doesn't save properly when I try to go back a day. usually for me drinking is late at night and I wouldn't enter data until the next day. Idk, I guess as long as it's on there for reference it wouldn't bother me. But, my chart doesn't really matter much at this point so maybe I'm being more careless then others would be who actually have a shift in temps!

FJM85 · June 2014

Thank you for alle the replies! I'm very new to charting, and your advice really helps! I guess the important thing is to chart consistently, however I choose to do it then.

Unfortunately I cannot link my chart, as I don't know how to do it on mobile.

PuppyLove84 · June 2014

I will usually mark mine the day/night that I drink, and I usually see a temp spike the day after. My temps are usually within ~.3 of each other so a .6 spike would be big for me!

Of course, I had a few drinks last night and I took my temp this morning and it was almost a full degree lower than normal... whaaa? Like, lower than any temp I've ever had. So I went back to sleep, and took it again when I woke up in 3.5 hours, and it was back to normal. Bodies are weird!

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