Posted on 03/15/2017 5:12:46 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
There are lots of apps or related devices that just measure and track BBT. I had one 25 years ago, for heaven’s sake.
But this gizmo seems to be a good deal more comprehensive -— if it were just BBT, like what’s been out there for decades, I can’t see how they could get a patent.
As you no doubt know, there are four major hormones which interact rather complexly, with feedback loops and all, to bring you to the verge of ovulation. If this app tracks them via saliva, urine, or even vaginal secretions, it would be a huge improvement over just BBT, or subjective impressions about how how or firm or slip-slidey your cervix may be.
The article didn’t specify what-all goes into these new, improved algorithms, but it seems it’s truly not the equivalent of a sun-dial. If they’re trying to get away with fraud, I’m betting savvy NFPers would catch them early on.
I say hooray for the lady physicist and her great new gizmo.
There are lots of apps or related devices that just measure and track BBT. I had one 25 years ago, for heaven’s sake.
But this gizmo seems to be a good deal more comprehensive -— if it were just BBT, like what’s been out there for decades, I can’t see how they could get a patent.
As you no doubt know, there are four major hormones which interact rather complexly, with feedback loops and all, to bring you to the verge of ovulation. If this app tracks them via saliva, urine, or even vaginal secretions, it would be a huge improvement over just BBT, or subjective impressions about how how or firm or slip-slidey your cervix may be.
The article didn’t specify what-all goes into these new, improved algorithms, but it seems it’s truly not the equivalent of a sun-dial. If they’re trying to get away with fraud, I’m betting savvy NFPers would catch them early on.
I say hooray for the lady physicist and her great new gizmo.
True to some extent. Depends on circumstances.
There are cases of need for tub-ligation. My mom would have died if she got pregnant again age was more the issue for her as she was nearly 45, I’m the one who found her bleeding out in the bathroom and had to call the ambulance and clean up the blood, I was just a teenager then, I’m 68 now.
For me I couldn’t take the Pill to many side effects, and 2 C-Sections were all you were allowed back then. This was my 4th child, and I didn’t want more nor could afford more.
Tub-ligation is a necessity for some of us. Not a wholesale method of population control, but should be an option with full disclosure if issues. Don’t know about any issues with it, had none nor did my mom. Endometriosis which is the most common issue can happen even with C-Sections and that is the most common issue with any abdominal surgery. Mine was done at the same time as the 2nd C-Section.
I don’t know what the C-Section rule is now, I’m well beyond that stage. But 2 were all that the medical community felt was safe then. I couldn’t even take HRT’s. Nasty stuff.
True DAT. I’m amazed that “aware,” “progressive” females who won’t tolerate hormones in their beef or chicken, will meekly pour them straight into their own livers.
It’s great that there are more holistic and womanistic options now. I can imagine how a woman in your mother’s situation 50 years ago would have felt totally trapped.
Isn’t that funny?
Like the libs who want to save every wild animal and their babies but are ok with any woman killing any unborn child ever.
I don’t have a problem with her profiting from it, but yes, the next step would be something you insert that gives a serious chemical / hormonal read.
I did temps for over 6 years, no preg. Infertile. Temps alone would not have cut it. Thank Gd (and I do) that I kicked infertility in the butt. Only one of my four was conceived without a lot of help.
If you feel so inclined, would you like to explain briefly how you kicked infertility in the butt? It sounds inspirational!
Not just 50 years ago, to many women died in child birth for hundreds of years before the C-Section was invented.
I was only 33 when I had mine 2nd C-Section, and was told NO more even if I would have liked to try for a girl, all mine were boys. The OB/GYN medical field had set 2 C-Sections as a limit for safety.
They may be different today.
Now I battle Chronic Pain, OA/OP/Spinal degeneration/Gastropresis/Barrett’s Esophagus/Diverticulosis/Peripheral Neuropathy/bursitis and currently a skin yeast infection nothing works on, not meds or natural. Getting old is not for the faint of heart.
I agree about tubal being a good solution, but will add this one caveat because most people reading may not be aware of it. Because of the way that the ovarian blood supply is tampered with, it can trigger early menopause in sensitive women. My hormone doc who deals mostly with menopausal issues says she sees it quite often in her practice and wishes that more ob/gyn doctors would mention it to patients before the surgery.
So I feel it for ya, honey. R.A. here and etcetera etcetera.
Not to mention mental fading. Geez I hate it when that happens.
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Do you know where I put my glasses? Did I pay the electric bill?
Have you heard a bunch of old Navy Salts in a monthly meeting, all they talk about are every ache, pain and pills they have to take. Hubby gets a new partial knee Tue. Guess who gets to wait on him? Let the dogs in/out, get his cup of coffee, or his snack...me who can barely get up myself.
I only hit the high lights, there are lesser issues. And finding a doc that will take Medicare/Tricare Life is a pain in the rear. Our PCP is DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS! No chance of changing, as fewer docs take us. To complicate it I have to have Valium for Meniere’s and the Peripheral Neuropathy. DUMBOCARE mandated a 75% reduction in it and all pain meds. Less than I take and I take the max the FDA allows I go into painful attacks of both. Meclizine which is the usual Meniere’s drug doesn’t work, only Valium does.
Me I sleep a lot, my complaints are bad do noting drugs or the side effects, I’ve a full typed sheet of those, and NO I don’t want to go to the ER we have had some rows over that one. If I go into A-Fib I’ll give in. Last trip they blew 5 veins, I have very fair skin, you can see my veins, they are the size of a child’s. You don’t use big IV Cath Pics on me, you will blow a vein every time. Or the fact meds are not delivered on my time schedule, some are critical I take when I first get up as they are taken on empty stomach and timed apart. Not at 8 AM all at once. I’m up at 6AM. First ting I want is coffee and my Synthyroid. Have to wait an hr before any thing else. And my food best be low sodium and Gastropresis friendly. Dietary does NOT know what those 2 things are.
How long have women been having kids, they have yet to find a cure for diaper rash. Part of the blame is disposable diapers. Not a lot of difference in diaper rash and yeast skin infection, I’ve tried all your pills, creams and powders, they stink and don’t work, the side effects are horrible. I didn’t ask for a 40 D, at 130 lbs, those women who pay big $$ to buy, they can keep them, I’d be happy with a B that didn’t develop yeast infections under the saggy, sweaty things because idiots don’t know how to make bras any more. And at 68 they do sag. Nor do they make bras that lift. I have to use a Mastectomy shop to buy mine to get a proper fit and those suckers aren’t cheap.
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