Tracking your cycle and possible BFP using RHR - part 5

[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
@LarasMama
@LS2020
@GlassLily
@IndigoJam
@Wombat84
@ThinnerByDinner
@MissBPotter
@BlondePotter
@SS123456
@lucyrp
@mrsi2020
@kirinm

@GlassLily yea I don’t think I’ll be able to go take it off the only thing that giving me a little bit of hope which probably doesn’t relate but false hope at it finest is what I always do is I hadn’t been sleeping great past few night like only 3/4 hours abs slept 6 last night so maybe that why it lowered probably not but 🤞🏻X

@Jess11397 if you’re a bad person like me who looks at a lot of blue light before bed, it takes longer for your sleep rhythm to kick in and therefore you go into a deeper sleep and your RHR falls more so I find I drop about 2BPM even at flat times on a weekend or have had a nap so that will deffo impact it. I do hope it’s good news for you.

@GlassLily well now I’m fed up as cramping eased this morning but boobs and backache is back with a vengeance so now I don’t know whether to test! RHR is flat vs yesterday but when I looked at graph when I woke it felt abnormally low for the RHR it gave me so no clue. I feel like RHR won’t be reliable tomorrow as I’m off so think would fall naturally as I relax?! Stupid fitbits 😂

@LS2020 thank you I phoned the doctor they won’t do blood work or anything until I’m a week late but they said it sound like a chemical is about to happen and to phone back in a week if I’m still pregnant

@Jess11397 I hope everything is okay for you but unfortunately yes you can only see ❤️

I think AF is arriving, had a bit of blood this afternoon but very happy as it means I’ve had a mostly normal cycle and I can get my blood work done Friday ☺️

@LS2020 hi thanks it’s defo I chemical lines are way lighter and digital is now negative just waiting for the more sensitive test to turn negative and start over thank you for all your help x

Sorry to hear that @Jess11397 - hope you have a nice bath/glass of wine tonight to treat and take care of yourself. And as awful as it is, it’s a good sign that you are ovulating and everything’s happening, just one of those things 😔

@LS2020 I don’t drink alcohol bad experience as teen put me off for life a drunk once and never again I know thank you I’m just going to wait and hope it happens soon as soon as cycle day 1 start I’ll try again have already ordered ovulation test vitiamins and new bbt monitor my last broke when I found out I was pregnant so just waiting game now thank you ☺️

I'm sorry @Jess11397 ❤️ with my last chemical I felt so unwell, bled so heavily, and I still kept getting a BFP until about a week after I started bleeding (but more and more faint). It's so hard watching it fade away. you will get through this though 💪🏻

@LS2020 I’m so sorry that must have been awful I’m hoping my cycle returns quickly 🤞🏻

I’m so sorry @Jess11397. Sending love.

My RHR has dropped 1 every day for 4 days so I think I’m out. Due AF in 3 days. Despite the possible ‘implantation bleed’ - was probably just regular old spotting 💩

@Pamparam thank you ☺️

Hi lovely ladies!
I have literally read through this whole thread and I feel like I have gotten to know you all already

I hope you don’t mind me tagging along on here but I was just wondering what you thought of my rhr graph for this month... the last day of my period was 6th... I’m not actually sure when (or whether) I have ovulated which certainly does not help but I thought I ‘think’ I may have ovulated somewhere between CD13-CD18. My period isn’t due until next Friday, do you think it looks promising or just a general surge before waiting to crash down for my period? X

Of course it would help if I attached the graph!

Hi @NJOBX I think you ovulated around the 20th.
Your rise is looking promising.

Hi @Kona84
Thanks for your reply

My rhr dipped down by 1bpm today (from 70 to 69) but all day I’ve felt a really fast heartbeat like what you feel when you’re really anxious or worried and I’ve had some cramping as well for the last three / four days. Do you think tomorrow would be too early to take a test?

I forgot to mention I had a really weird pain in my left on Tuesday (CD22) and it felt like a stabbing pain as though a sewing machine was continuously jabbing me in the same area and the day before (CD21) there was the dip as you can see from my chart so that’s another reason why I wasn’t sure when I had ovulated... this is all so confusing haha.

I had cramping around 6dpo, my boobs were killing me and I was emotional.
My bfp showed at 10dpo it was faint but def there.

@Kona84
Thank you, I took a test really early this morning and it was a bfn but if I ov’d on 20th it’s not been that long so might be too early.

Had you tried a test prior to your 10dpo or was that your first test?

Has anyone had an evap line on clear blue before and can advise if it looked like this? Tested in the morning, thought there was maybe a shadow but decided I was kidding myself. About 4 hours later I went to throw the test away but it looked like this. Either way, no congrats in order, within hours I started bleeding. I'm just hoping to figure out whether this was another CP so I can understand what my body is doing.

I’ve never used those tests but I hear they are notorious for evap lines.
I think also if it wasn’t there within the time frame I would proof assume evap line

@GlassLily unfortunately I've had many evaps on clear blue tests like that. Sorry x

@GlassLily pic for reference. The lines got darker for me, thought there was something there but when I got it out of the bin half hour to an hour later they looked much darker and like this. Pink dye tests from the same urine had nothing on them x

Thanks @Kona84 and @lucyrp! I did a FRER the next day and got a very very very faint positive. I assume it must have been a bit of an attempt by my body that went wrong very early on.

Hi everyone. How's it going? Can I ask how you all do RHR? Do you track overnight? Or just during the day? I'm only doing during the day and just thought, surely that's not accurate cos surely if I have a manic day it will be higher and visa versa. But not sure if it works like that! 🤷‍♀️

@Cakelaur I used to wear mine all night and all day then I stopped and only wore it in the day and was only doing that the month I got my BFP and could still see a pattern!