Valley Electronics Lady-Comp User manual

Instructions
The intelligent fertility computer.

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Revision status 11.08
LADY-COMP®
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is an FDA cleared fertility monitor.
he FDA has not cleared LADY-COMP as a contraceptive device.
Consult with your physician if pregnancy is suspected.

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Congratu ations
Congratulations on choosing LADY-COMP®.
You have made the right choice. Tens of thousands of women have already
made the choice to a natural approach toward family planning.
And they were all fully satisfied with this safe and natural method.
Please read these instructions carefully and follow the easy steps.
You will find everything that you need to know about this device in the table
of contents or in the alphabetical index.
We wish you a successful start.

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LADY-COMP®is delivered with all necessary
parts
• Temperature Sensor
• Power Supply: 120V
• Travel Bag
• User Manual
• Product Brochure
• 2 year Manufacturer's Warranty

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recautions
• This device is to be used to identify days of
increased fertility.
• In no way does LADY-COMP®provide
protection against sexually transmitted
diseases.
• You should not use the LADY-COMP®if you
are menopausal, taking hormonal treatments
and/or birth control hormones.
• LADY-COMP®may be less effective in iden-
tifying fertile days with irregular menstrual
cycles.
LADY-COM ®is an FDA Approved Fertility
Monitor.
The FDA has not approved LADY-COM ®as a
Contraceptive Device.
Consult with your hysician if regnancy is
Suspected.
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Precautions

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LADY-COM ®
is a natural family planning tool.
Based on your morning temperature, taken
orally, the fertility computer determines your
fertile days and shows you when you are ovu-
lating by recording, analyzing and storing your
menstrual cycle data.
It monitors your daily status of fertility and will
alert you on the days when intercourse
may lead to pregnancy: on the day
you ovulate – and five days
before ovulation.

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Important Facts:
• Your LADY-COMP®arrives with saved sam-
ple values. These values are automatically
deleted as soon as you take your own first
temperature reading or enter your menstrua-
tion data.
• The more regularly you take your tempera-
ture, the faster the device learns your indi-
vidual cycle.
• Take your temperature always in the morn-
ing right before you get up.
• The alarm clock must be set and activated
on the previous day before midnight (12 am).
• Please stop taking the pill before starting.
The program is based on identifying ovula-
tion and the pill prevents ovulation.
• If a temperature reading is missed, the time
window is cleared and you must reset your
alarm to take a temperature the next morn-
ing.
• Should you need to store your Lady-Comp
for any period of time (i.e.: pregnancy), be
sure to charge your device at least every 3
months to maintain the life of the internal
battery.
• Please be sure to have the thermometer wire
threaded through the 3 guide prongs on the
back of your device (picture p.11) to prevent
damage to your thermometer.
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Important Facts

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recautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Important Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Connecting LADY-COM ®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Charge the battery
Recharge the battery
Unit Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Switching on and off and self-testing . . . 13
Function keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Round button, plus button, minus button
Back to the starting position
Fast mode
Operating levels LADY-COM ®
Display LADY-COM ®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Necessary settings
before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1. Charge battery for 24 hours
2. Enter past menstruation data, if any
3. Enter BMI
4. et the alarm
5. Activate the alarm clock
6. Take your temperature
7. Read your fertility
8. Enter “M” when menstruating
Charge battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1. Charge battery for 24 hours
Enter past menstruation data . . . . . . . . . . 18
2. Enter past menstruation data, if any
Enter BMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3. Enter BMI
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Time level
Fertility level
Cycle tatistics level

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The alarm clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4. et the alarm
5. Activating the alarm clock
Alarm tone
witching the alarm on and off
Temperature reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6. Take your temperature the next morning
General information
How to take your temperature
Temperature reading
Terminating the temperature reading
Temperature reading time limit. . . . . . . . . 24
Changing the temperature reading time limit
Clearing the temperature reading time limit
Fertility display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7. Read your fertility
The device gets to know your cycle
Pregnancy display LADY-COMP®
Entering menstruation data “M”. . . . . . . . 28
8. Enter “M” when menstruating
Activating "M"
Entering "M" after some time of use
Correcting "M"
Entering "M" retrospectively / at a later time
Cycle statistics LADY-COM ®. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Monophasic cycles and CLI
Cycle statistics
Data analysis and print-out
Query cycle statistics
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Tab e of Contents
Potential fertility display
Retrospective fertility display

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Tab e of Contents
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Further Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing the time
Changing the date
Further information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
During interruptions
Back in operation after interruption
After taking the pill
ummer and winter time
Travelling / Time zones
hift work
No temperature readings:
increase in temperature / fever
Pearl-Index
Data print-out
Technical – Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Deleting saved data
Device
AC Power supply unit
Battery
Loss of data
Disposal
Care – Maintenance – recautions . . . . . . 38
Cleaning / Care and maintenance
afety advice / Device designation
roblems and Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . 40
Indications / Contraindications . . . . . . . . . 41
Information on Electromagnetic
Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Alphabetical index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Connecting LADY-COM ®
Connect the LADY-COMP®with the power
plug
1. Connect the power cord into socket A on
the back of the device (don’t plug it into
your AC wall outlet yet)
2. Connect the thermal sensor into socket B on
the back of the device
Important:
3. HEN last step:
plug it into your AC wall outlet
Charge the Battery
• When you receive the device, the battery is
not charged.
• Charge the battery for 24 hours the first
time. During charging, the charge condition
indicator Lo 01 to Lo 10 will light up.
• Your device is now ready for approx. one
month*
•emperature readings cannot be taken
during charging.
Recharge the Battery
*When the display BA 09 to BA 01 is shown,
the battery must be recharged again.
The battery is completely charged after
approx. 12 hours.
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Connecting LADY-COMP®
AB

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Unit Description
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Function keys
Display
Sensor
Sensing device

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Switching on the device
• Press any button.
• The current time is shown.
Automatic switching off and automatic return
to the time display
• If you do not press any button for 30
seconds, the device automatically returns
to the time display and switches off comple-
tely after around 60 seconds
• The display then remains dark until the next
time a button is pressed or the alarm
sounds.
• When you press the plus and the minus but-
tons simultaneously, the device automatical-
ly returns to the time display.
Self-testing and trial readings
LADY-COMP®shows all displays as part of a
test.
Proceeding from the time display:
• Press the plus button 3 times.
• LADY-COMP®now runs through all its sym-
bols independently.
The device tests itself and indicates this in
the display window.
• When the test is completed the time
appears and the thermometer symbol is illu-
minated.
• If you now press the round button, the ther-
mometer flashes and is ready for a reading.
• If no trial temperature reading should be
made, then press the minus and plus buttons
simultaneously.
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Switching on and off and se f-testing

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Function keys
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Round button
• With the round button, you can change the
levels.
• With the round button, you can make the device
ready for setting.
• Ready for setting:
press and hold the round button for 5 seconds
• When the display flashes, it is ready for setting.
The respective data can be advanced or re -
versed by pressing the plus or minus button.
• Setting completed: press and hold the round
button for 5 seconds
• Confirmation of the desired input: the flashing
stops and there is an acoustic signal.
Back to the starting position
• By pressing the plus and the minus buttons
simultaneously, you can return to the
starting position / time.
lus button
• With the plus button, you can advance
and enter data (for example to confirm
men struation).
Minus button
• With the minus button, you can go back-
wards (for example to look at past tempera-
ture readings and evaluations).
Fast mode
• By pressing and holding the plus or minus
button, you can fast advance or go back-
wards.
LADY-COMP®has different operating levels.
Please use the function keys for all inputs and in order to select the different levels.

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Operating eve s LADY-COMP®
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LENGTH
OF CYCLE
press shortly = switch it on
set date
ALARM TIME
TIME LEVEL
off / on alarm setting
5 seconds
5 seconds
hours
reverse / advance reverse / advance
shortly
press shortly
press shortly
enter menstruation
Reverse display
up to 180 or 250 days
Advance display
up to 6 days
FERTILITY LEVEL
5 seconds
FERTILITY FERTILITY
yes
5 seconds
5 seconds
ALARM CLOCK DATE YEAR TESTTIME
press shortly / back to the time level
/ CYCLE DAY
TEM ERATURE READING
VALUE
no
minutes
hours
minutes
set time
5 seconds
5 seconds
shortly
INCREASE IN
TEM ERATURE
OV
RANGE
NUMBER OF READ CYCLES
CYCLE STATISTICS LEVEL

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16 Disp ay LADY-COMP®
1 Ferti ity indicators
(from left to right)
red = fertile
yellow = learning area and transition area or
missing data
green = infertile
2 A arm indicator:
lights up when the alarm is switched on.
3Disp ay for a information:
concerning time, dates, temperature readings etc.
4Thermometer symbo :
lights up during temperature reading time and
flashes when ready for a temperature reading.
5Menstruation indicator:
„M“ flashes for input “+” yes / “–” no menstruation
„M“ lights up constantly, if „+“ was entered.
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Necessary settings before you start
When you receive LADY-COMP®the year, date
and time are already set.
When traveling in different time zones you
have the ability to change the date and time to
the local time (page 33).
Charge battery for 24 hours
Once-only setting
Enter past menstruation data, if any
Enter BMI
Always
Set the alarm
Activate the alarm clock
Take your temperature
Read your fertility
Enter “M” when menstruating
Charge battery for 24 hours
When you get your LADY-COMP®charge it for
24 hours (page 11). Temperature readings
cannot be taken during charging.
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Before or after charging you can enter past
menstruation data and BMI. Remember this
just has to be entered once, after that you will
not have to repeat this process.

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Enter past menstruation data
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Enter past menstruation data, if any
If you have past “M” data about your cycle,
you can enter this data into the device
before the first temperature reading
(before you start using the device).
Only the first “M” day is to be entered per
cycle, the device automatically saves three “M”
days. Begin with the input of the furthest men-
struation back in time.
Entering “M” retrospectively:
Starting from the time:
• Press the round button once.
• Reverse to the desired date with the minus
button.
• Now hold the round button for 5 seconds.
“M” flashes.
• Press the plus button and enter “M”. “M”
remains illuminated.
• In case of correction: negate “M” with the
minus button.
ONCE-ONLY SETTING
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Enter BMI
BMI = Body Mass Index: date of birth, weight*
and height*. ntering the data facilitates the
cycle evaluation.
• By simultaneously pressing the + / – button
for 5 seconds, these values can be entered.
• First the year of birth appears, the birth
symbol lights up.
• nter your year of birth:
– Hold the round button down for
5 seconds
– The year will flash
– nter your year of birth using the plus and
minus buttons.
– Save changes: hold the round button
down for 5 seconds.
• To save your changes, press the round but-
ton briefly and the calculated BMI figure will
appear.
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Enter BMI
ONCE-ONLY SETTING
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* Celsius models – Centimeters/kilograms
Fahrenheit models – Inches/pounds
• nter your height:
– Press the round button quickly
– Then hold it down for 5 seconds
– The height will flash
– nter your height* using the plus and
minus buttons.
– Save changes: hold the round button
down for 5 seconds
• nter your weight:
– Press the round button quickly
– Then hold it down for 5 seconds
– The weight will flash
– nter your weight* using the plus
and minus buttons.
– Save changes: hold the round button
down for 5 seconds
• Press the round button briefly to return to
the time display.

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Activate the alarm clock
Starting from the time display:
• Press the minus button once, the alarm time
is displayed.
• Press the minus button again, the bell flas-
hes.
• Press the plus button and the bell lights up
continuously. You will be woken at your
desired time.
Set the alarm
SETTINGS NEEDED AT ALL TIMES
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Proceeding from the time display:
• Press the minus button once.
• The alarm setting appears on the display.
• Now press and hold the round button for 5
seconds.
The alarm hour flashes.
• Advance the hours using the plus button or
reverse the hours using the minus button.
• If the plus / minus button is held down more
than three seconds, fast mode begins.
• Afterwards, press the round button briefly
and the minutes begin to flash.
• Advance the minutes using the plus button
or reverse the minutes using the minus
button.
• Input completed: press and hold the round
button for 5 seconds.
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The flashing stops and you can hear an
acoustic signal. The current alarm setting
appears on the display.