Taking your own temperature.

[Guest guest]

I hear everywhere that you are supposed to take your morning

temperature while still in bed, with an old fashioned thermometer in

your armpit (to determine if you might have a thyroid problem).

Any reason why we can't use a digital thermometer in the mouth? I

mean, temperature is temperature, whether it's armpit or anywhere else.

My hands are virtually never cold, not even in a cold house in the

winter. Yet that doesn't prove anything, I don't think. I want to

know my morning body temperature, so I'd appreciate your advice re

type of thermometer. Thanx.