Fitbit & TTC

Thank god for chocolate!! ;)

Intelligent good luck!

My HR has started dropping now (changed after I got out of bed haha) and funnily enough I have really bad PMS symptoms too, so actually in a weird way, seeing the RHR chart has kind of softened the blow of going through all these hormones and overthinking them, as is now be properly shocked if it was anything but AF.

DH is on red alert as I've never had PMS symptoms this bad before, so he's been sent to get me food and chocolate (which I rarely treat myself to, but fuck it). If it wasn't for RHR I'd have definitely been thinking these were pregnancy symptoms (and denying myself chocolate).

Hi @HolyShmoly
I'm not going to test until Monday at earliest. Had enough of disappointment from last few months. Ran out of tests and not bought any more this month on purpose.
Taping over the face is a good idea. Or maybe I'll just try not to do it.
Almost think taping it will give me too much anticipation (and something to build up to being let down again).

Intelligent, can you put some tape or something over the face today and poas tomorrow morning if your rhr is still high when you go to bed tonight?

I'm comparing last 3 months data. I've been always getting spotting on Sunday. Period actual starting on Monday and HR drops on the Friday or Saturday.
So far I'm still at 79 bpm.
I will need to distract myself today I think to ensure i do not become a crazy wrist tapper. (Checking RHR).
But micro. You are right there is definitely a rise before AF. Every month. So it's not much of a guide!!

Yeah it's all really interesting micropig. I find the fact that most conversation online around rhr during cycles and ttc are from forums like this so interesting, it feels like we're crowdsourcing data!

Morning all. I reckon this could be a good way of seeing when we ovulate, not expecting to spit early pregnancy with it though as I think heart rate goes high before AF too.

Here's my chart, AF due Tuesday. Don't think we DTD at the right time so not hopeful, but this is my first month with a Fitbit so finding the charts very interesting none the less. PMS is worse this month than the last few, was slightly constipated for the first time the last two days (sorry for TMI), feeling a bit antisocial and grumpy, and feel like I have heartburn this morning weirdly. Breasts are the weird one - sometimes I get breast pain for two weeks following ovulation (this symptom only started this year, you can imagine how disappointing that first AF was as we weren't actively trying but not using protection). This time they hurt a little but not much, and only from yesterday.

I am wondering if the hormone increasing my heart rate so much is the one that causes all these symptoms. It's interesting at least.

Sorry to hear about your AF, but thanks for sharing your chart. It's so interesting.

I've just seen this article when doing a bit more research. www.avawomen.com/avaworld/ava-data-means/

I'm on my third month of monitoring mine, it looks like I normally go up one or two bpm, then drop a couple, then spike again before dropping at ovulation.

Yeah the Fitbit he stuff is enough to send you crazy. I've noticed it definitely peaks when progesterone does (I know this from taking norihisterone to induce a period), and low oestrogen (i.e. On clomid) = low HR. But not sure how useful actually if is without other information to confirm ovulation/pregnancy!

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you both though :-)

@Bsclp sorry to hear at arrived for you. Really had fingers crossed. I think this Fitbit RHR just helps to send me more doolally at this time of month!!
@micropig You could still be in there. RHR steadily increasing.

Currently waiting for rhr to drop of the scale. Getting more pessimistic every month.

Af due Monday.
Here's my graph.

Bsclp sorry to see that AF has arrived for you! I think I'll be joining you in a few days. Hopefully our next cycles bring good news!

As expected but still annoyed, I'm out - AF arrived along with a drop in HR. Oh well fingers crossed for txt cycle :-)

AF is due in 5 days. My heart rate is steadily rising every day. I think from looking at previous posts on this thread, that the end of one of the two flat bits would possibly be ovulation, right? According to Glow, we only DTD once during its ovulation prediction (which matches the first flat part on this graph), so I'm not too hopeful this month. During my next cycle I am away until the first day of Glows predicted ovulation window, then the day it ends I have a friend over to visit. Pure chance! It will be our first cycle of properly trying.

Bsclp I wouldn't give up hope yet, that sounds really promising!

I have just come across a post on Reddit where someone charted her resting heart rate and AF/ovulation over a year, it's really interesting to see! https://www.reddit.com/r/xxfitness/comments/3w7x9l/chartiimadeshowinggrestinghearttratevs/

I really want to get pregnant of course but I'm also weirdly eager to get my next period to see if I have actually possibly ovulated at a different time than the app has predicted. I do love a good graph

I had a male Fitbit user ask me once what my RHR was as he uses his to measure his fitness. I had no idea at the time that mine fluctuated so much and that this is partially why.

I have learnt so much about my body since joining mumsnet!

Realised I already posted this graph - D'oh. Must stop obsessing over graphs and get some work done now lol :-)

Cool graph micropig! :-) I don't think your hr after ovulation looks too different though? As you say, might take a few months to work out what's normal for you though.

I ovulated on the 31st Aug and this is my HR since then, it's the highest HR I've had since I got my Fitbit in Jan. Trying not to read into it very much since my bfn this morning though.

Bsclp thanks for the info. Good luck with the test. You never know!

DH doesn't want to make TTC stressful so doesn't want to do anything other than DTD lots around a possible ovulation window. He's going to think I'm making it stressful by looking at heart rate haha, but it's so interesting.

Glow can predict using various things like CM and BBT but I haven't used those yet, so I realise it's not hugely accurate. We will see after a few months if we want to try any other techniques.

Can you tell I'm supposed to be doing housework then going to work? Lol. Here is a consolidated graph of the two months of Fitbit and the data from Glow (which I've been using for a few months so fairly accurate on AF, no idea about ovulation times).

Pink is AF, blue is predicted ovulation. The day that Glow predicted me being most fertile is one of the 68bpm days and as you can see it seems to be higher today than it was even at the start of the predicted ovulation time.

I suppose I won't know what's normal for me for s few months.

Well realistically I'm going to test again, but my hopes are realistic that it's unlikely at this point :-)

Micro pig - I haven't heard of glow does it use CM observations or anything to predict your ovulation date? If it's just basing your ovulation date on your cycle dates it may not be that accurate.

I'm a bit of a compulsive data tracker so I've been taking my bbt, OPKs and CM observations on the fertility friend app.

The app then pinpoints ovulation based on the data entered. Attached my fertility friend screen shot so you can see how it works. Might not be your thing - I have to track though as my cycle is all over the place.

I think using Fitbit to confirm O is still a bit of a guessing game so it might we worth looking at if you've had no look in a few cycles :-) x

Hello. I got a Fitbit Charge2 last month and am TTC so very glad to find this thread. We have been having unprotected sex for months with no luck (not often DTD around ovulation according to Glow though). This month we chatted about it and decided to start aiming to DTD loads when Glow says I'm ovulating, but we only decided that on the last expected day of ovulation so now I have a week before AF due to wait till the month we officially start actively TTC.

Anyway will be interesting to see how my heart rate is affected by my cycle. I am loving all the things the Fitbit does (just wish I had more people on it for competition lol). I can't see an obvious trend yet but I only got it last month so we will see what happens.

Will see if these pics work... first is last month, second this month and third is what Glow has to say on the matter.

I wouldn't count yourself out just yet. Try testing again on Thursday?

12dpo and heart rate still rising and a temp spike this morning.

But I got a bfn on a FRER this morning so think I'm out this month, I guess I'm getting a cold or something?

Nah that's good thanks - was starting to get my hopes up way too much. I'm trying to be realistic with the BFN FRER it's unlikely. G'agghhh only on my second month ttc and had enough of the 2ww already!

Fitbit actually adjusted my resting HR to 74 later in the morning which is weird too!

It's looking good but I wouldn't pin my hopes on it too much yet as quite a few of us have had our bpm rise and then crash a couple days before AF. I don't mean to piss on your chips, but just want to be realistic so you don't get too excited and then get a horrible surprise.