Lady-Comp Fertility Monitor - Fahrenheit

by VE Valley-Electronics GmbH Germany

Product Features

• Easy to Use, 30/Seconds Per Day for Natural Family Planning
• 99.3% Accurate: Red light = fertile, Green-light = infertile
• Natural: No drugs, No side-effects, No test sticks, No effect on mothers milk
• The 'Intelligent' Fertility Monitor for precision ovulation tracking
• Easy analysis of the cycle with data capture and result print-out

Product Description

Trying to get pregnant? Can't take the pill? LadyComp is the best tool for supporting Natural Family Planning and the Fertility Awareness Method. Developed and manufactured in Germany, Lady-Comp has enjoyed tremendous confidence among women and their physicians as Europe's most trusted and recommended fertility monitor. A computer programmed with data from 700,000 cycles, the Lady-Comp sensor captures Basal Body Temperature and then analyzes, learns, and predicts the user's cycle with a 99.3% accuracy rate. With consistent compliance, the device indicates infertile days and provides insight into the fertile window of opportunity before, during, and after ovulation, and retains user data for each day of the previous nine months. No other fertility monitor has the capability to so easily and precisely support natural family planning and the Natural Fertility Awareness method. Now available in the U.S. Lady-Comp is shipped INSURED PRIORITY MAIL FOR ALL CUSTOMERS.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000NOKX4Q
• Item model number: LCF1001
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,230 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)
  • #2 in Health & Personal Care > Health Care > Family Planning & Contraceptives > Fertility Charting
  • #28 in Health & Personal Care > Health Care > Family Planning & Contraceptives > Pregnancy & Fertility Tests

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LadyComp - still great after five years, January 27, 2008

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Vicki (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lady-Comp Fertility Monitor - Fahrenheit (Health and Beauty)

I have used Lady Comp for about five years now and love it. It is, in my opinion, better than any other form of birth control because you are not adding anything unnatural to your body and you are not trying to trick your body into not getting pregnant. I love this product and highly recommend it. So get over the sticker-shock of the $500 and do your body the favor of a natural birth-control method that won't alter your body's natural rhythms.

In addition, it travels well and has a battery pack for that purpose. I usually put it in my carry-on and have only been asked about it by TSA once. I travel quite a bit and it has not been a problem.

LadyComp has enhanced my life, rather than controlled it like other forms of birth control. It is so easy and safe!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No hormones, same effectiveness as the pill, June 1, 2010

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Crazy Legs "Al V" (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lady-Comp Fertility Monitor - Fahrenheit (Health and Beauty)

I have had my Lady Comp since 1998 and I love it. It's easy to use and it is reliable. I have had more than a few short-term and long-term relationships between then and now, and it has gotten me through all of them with flying colors. I even continue to use it when I know I am in no way going to be sexually active because I really like knowing where I am in my cycle. It helps me predict food cravings, mood swings, and when to buy my "girlie" products.

Different pills made me crazy (literally) so I finally stopped using hormonal birth control a long time ago. This left me with the dilemma of relying on barrier methods (and thus, relying on a partner to properly use said method) for the rest of my life. I started researching alternative methods of birth control and read about the "French" method (aka "rhythm" method). However, I found that having to take my temperature and charting my cycles on a piece of paper seemed too risky. Digital thermometers weren't available when people started documenting the rhythm method, so almost every book about it stressed that the temperature had to be taken vaginally, not orally (bleh!). Additionally, it is recommended to take a basal reading as close to waking up as possible, so I found charting while barely conscious (since I am NOT a morning person) difficult. I really had (have) no interest in getting pregnant, and I wanted something relatively fool proof.

In 1998, the interwebs started becoming more useful for end users like me, and I was able to find a product called the Lady Comp on a web site called birthcontrol.com (the domain name seems to have since been sold and is now being used by a Canadian drug store-type company). I liked that the manufacturer had real research to support their claims, and I liked that this device had close to the same Pearl index (effectiveness rate) as any hormonally-based pill -- with the same caveat as a daily pill that the method is only as effective as the person using it is consistent doing so. I also LOVED that all you have to do is take your temperature (orally!) at the same time every morning. That is it! No pee-ing on anything like you do for the devices that are marketed for fertility planning. It was pricey (over $500 plus customs charges) and it had to be shipped from Germany (same company as the one here on Amazon) via a Canadian distributor since no one in the U.S. was distributing them back then. I had just started making more than poverty level for the first time in my life, so the price was daunting. But the price seemed worth it to effectively prevent pregnancy while still being able to enjoy "spontaneous" sex with a partner. And considering I've now had mine for 12 years, it has come out to about $45 a year (not including additional cost of condoms). So, ultimately, it's quite economical. There is also the additional bonus of always knowing when you need to buy or carry pads/tampons.

To be clear, the "spontaneity" still has to be planned. If you decide to go bare-back on days that are not "green", you run the risk of getting pregnant. So, unlike the pill, you still either have to abstain from vaginal intercourse or use barrier methods on "red" days. And, of course, using a method like this doesn't protect you from any STDs (which seems like it should be a giant "ah duh" but I never cease to be surprised by the lack of general knowledge of sex education), so you may not want to rely solely on this kind of method if you are worried about those kinds of issues.

And, even being a non-morning person, I find myself usually waking up on the first beep. The alarm is gentle and in 12 years of daily use I have rarely slept through it without some other mitigating circumstance present (i.e., drinking and/or going to sleep two hours before the alarm is supposed to go off). When I have had a partner, they have claimed to not have noticed the alarm at all, so, unless your partner is a really light sleeper, it's not intrusive. The alarm beeps; I roll over, take my temperature, confirm/deny if I'm currently menstruating (only needed when prompted), and then roll right back over to sleep until my "real" alarm clock goes off an hour later. Easy as pie.

I recommend this product unwaveringly. In fact, the only reason I found out Amazon was selling them is because I was looking to buy one for a very dear friend as a wedding present. I wish I could afford to buy one for every ovulating BFF I have.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than hormonal methods!, November 12, 2007

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Tara (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lady-Comp Fertility Monitor - Fahrenheit (Health and Beauty)

My husband and I have used this for four months now and have not gotten pregnant- and we are right at child-bearing age. It really does work and it's so nice not to have to use hormonal methods. I feel much healthier this way. You can buy it new for $500. I bought mine refurbished for $400. But it lasts I think for ten years. So it's really like paying a little more than $3 a month over that ten years. And it's so easy to use. Just set the alarm, take your temperature when the alarm goes off, and it tells you whether it is a red day or green day. You have about nine days each month of red days where you must use a barrier method because you are possibly ovulating.