Tracking your cycle and possible BFP using RHR - part 3

[Juno231]

Hi ladies,

This is for all of us with heart rate monitors who wish to help each other analyse the RHR patterns throughout our cycles.

Early research shows there's a correlation with increasing RHR and BFPs - so let's try and spot some together!

@mumof23188
@fran2020
@LS2020
@SarahTTC2020
@ambs1994
@AliceSpring
@HopefulHopper

@Moominmiss omg when will you test?! Cause I'd cave tomorrow morning if that was my rhr 🙊

@mumof23188 that's so perfect ❤️. I'm glad you got some reassurance!

@Moominmiss wow that's a great chart, fx for you!!

@mumof23188 beautiful scan!

I'm on CD6 and my RHR is way lower than the same time last cycle. I'm hoping that's due to having actually ovulated a few weeks back whereas I think I had a few anovulatory cycles previously. Not sure whether to start OPKs tomorrow or just wait til day 10/11. Desperate to see another positive this month to reassure me I have more than just the one egg! So really don't want to miss it if it happens.

@GlassLily oooh id start testing now then just incase.

@Moominmiss test!! Lol

@Juno231 how you feeling this cycle?

Girls I’m putting my rhr and bbt up incase anyone needs this in future.... I couldn’t find any actual charts of rhr and bbt past the bfp... so future reference... my bbt has stayed high but plateaued and my rhr started dropping drastically at 6/7 weeks. Two scans have shown there’s a healthy peanut so far so fingers crossed this is the “norm” xxx

@Moominmiss what a wonderful graph, fx for you!

@mumof23188 have you tested again today? We’re still so early to try not to worry!

@Mrsi2020 what a beautiful scan 🥰 you didn’t attach your charts though 😂

Well this me maybe 6dpo... now at the same highest point I was with my CP 🤔

Although I will add I had a white wine spritzer with bake off but I don’t normally get a RHR impact from that 🤔 for example, in the flat bit on one of the nights I had 3 vodka cokes

@LS2020 looks brilliant!! Hopefully it's a BFP for you, it seems early but maybe you ovulated early? This TWW must be torture for you. All my fingers and toes crossed for you.

@GlassLily thanks! Yeah I have no idea when I O’d as I didn’t get more than a flashing smiley the normal fertile week based on when I started my bleed but I did have loads of ovulation stuff when I would have normally been due O If my bleed wasn’t late because of last months CP so I am now starting to wonder. Weirdly though I felt more symptomy last week, i feel a bit boring now 😂 maybe just a slight amount of nausea. Yeah I 100% have no idea what to do now as still over a week away from AF, I guess I might see if it rises to this weekend and test then?

Well 8dpo today. Rhr still up, but temp dropped.

Hoping for implantation, but I thought I needed a bigger dip for it to be that?

Plus I would have expected my rhr to drop too?

Attached pics of both. Oh and I tested and bfn. Hoping that if it was an implantation dip then it would just be too early.

@Moominmiss 8dpo is a very normal implantation time - your RHR may not move strictly in line with so hoping this is all very positive signs 🤞🏻 Noticed any cramping or anything?

@LS2020 I can’t think of much really. Perhaps some very mild cramping. Boobs don’t feel overly tender, only as they normally would this time of the month.

Really hoping it’ll be implantation and that I can get my bfp soon, but it’s hard to keep positive after so many losses and bfn’s!

Will keep you all updated regardless. Knowing me I’ll no doubt test again later on after work too, then again tomorrow.

But today’s was a definite bfn.

Good luck with maybe testing this weekend!! I will have everything crossed for you 🤞🏻

Ah @LS2020 hopefully the high HR is a positive sign

Here's my chart, I'll be 5 weeks tomorrow. The clear U shape in the middle was my implantation dip but then you can see it's not exactly been a steady rise so don't count yourself out if it doesn't shoot up after implantation. I'm 22dpo now

@Moominmiss at 8 dpo it's normal to have a dip due to a secondary oestrogen surge. It's more common to see on bfp charts but doesn't really have anything to do with implantation I'm afraid. I get it most cycles for instance!

@Moominmiss I wouldn’t worry on bfn, you’ll be due to implant and then takes 48 hours to get detectable HCG so will probably be a couple of days yet ☺️ Thanks, I hope it continues to rise 🤞🏻

@SarahTTC2020 I hope so too! Although feels really early so just going to have to watch it I guess. I’m trying to not get too hopeful after last month. How have you been getting on?

@Mrsi2020 beautiful little bean 😍 lovely pic. Very pleased to hear all is going well for you ☺️

@LS2020 wowsers! Look at that rise!! Looking amazing! 🤞🤞

@Moominmiss an amazing rise for you too 🤞🤞

I did test again! I just think I’ve got dud tests unluckily. So unfair! I don’t think my charts are good enough at all and I’m so confused as to why my HR is so low?!! I’ve started running again and that’s the only thing I can think of? Any insight to my BBT? From what I’ve been reading it’s not looking good as temps are to low!

FRER from this morning!

@mumof23188 I can't see the FRER very well but aren't the one step ones like 25miu and you're only 9 DPO? Tbh the most common day to implant is 9DPO so you're very much not out just yet!

BBT is pretty useless in the TWW I find - you get loads of really high temps that still result in BFNs and vice versa. So don't worry too much about the chart at this point :)

@mumof23188 I know I’m totally shocked and suspicious - it’s way too soon 😂 saying that I feel dreadfully sick again so not sure if it’s poorliness or early nausea now.
Hmm can’t see what I could see on the frer yesterday but as Juno says, still so early and likely that you’re only just implanting now ☺️

Also @mumof23188 on the ICs those are the ones I have and just found them useless!

@Juno231 they’re 10! So I’m thinking just dud tests! Thank you, I’ve been frantically googling about bbt temps! My HR is just ridiculous tho 😩

@LS2020 it’s amazing!! Fingers crossed for you lovely 🤞. Ahh no, boo to nausea. I’m feeling sick to but mine is definitely due to this horrible cold I’ve got. Yes agree about the IC, they are pretty crappy!

@LS2020 🤣🤣🤣

@mumof23188 I swear I see a line on the frer?? As for the one step they were blank for me for ages and progressed so slow despite being 10miu. The clear and simple 2 pack from b&m are fab, the 1 pack is defo not as good, try those if you don’t want to waste money on frer xxx

Girls I do believe that you’re not until af is here. It wasn’t easy for me to see patterns on my chart until days had passed .... I really hope for bfps for you girls soon. Xxx

@mumof23188 yeah even when I was getting positive cb digitals I couldn’t get a positive on those things so convinced mine were useless!
Feel like I’m being tortured now, went to have a nap because I felt so exhausted and woke up and my boobs are so sore. Honestly the things our bodies do to trick us is insane. My normal beating HR is like 84 atm which is sooo high for me. I wonder if I have an infection.

@Mrsi2020 yes there is but I think it might be an indent?! The bottom looks pinkish but I can’t tell with the top. Definitely agree The IC are crap, I used them with my last baby and they took forever to show positive for me too. Think I’m just using them for something to pee on 🤣. I was feeling so positive for this cycle because everything has been different but now I’m not. Thank you for your charts 💕

@LS2020 they’re completely crap aren’t they! I don’t think you are being tricked 😁. Do you feel poorly? When will you test?

@mumof23188 I feel really emotional and tired rather than like sick like sneezy/coughing etc almost like a really bad first day of AF. I’ve had to stop myself snapping at OH all day and then had such a headache and tired and had a 2 hour nap this pm 😂 I feel like it must be coincidental though??
I honestly don’t know when to test as I’m so far from AF. Probs this weekend at earliest but only if RHR increases again but I’ll be like 5 days away from af so will it even show anything?