97.52 oh how I hate you

That's the reading on my basal thermometer every month right before my period comes. It's the temperature that I hate to see and that signals yet another failed cycle. It's the temperature that tempts me to call in sick to work and stay home in bed wallowing in self-pity and misery. It's the temperature that makes me question all of my decisions over the past 12 cycles. What are we doing wrong? Should I try harder, try less, see my ob/gyn or an RE, keep having acupuncture and taking herbs or just take the two cycles off? It shouldn't be this hard.