Tracking your cycle and possible BFP using RHR - part 6

[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!

@NJOBX
@GlassLily
@lucyrp
@mumof23188
@Kona84
@LS2020
@justwant2beamum
@gezelligheid
@Marvellouslymadmum

@LS2020 no pms symptoms might be a good thing.
Good luck.

@LS2020 that's interesting, did you do OPKs? Do you often have anovulatory cycles? I agree that a weird cycle could be a good sign! Fx for you.

Thanks I'm 21DPO now and going well! It's going bloody slowly but so happy to have made it to this point. I'm on constant knicker watch! Early scan is booked in for week after next.

@Kona84 possibly! I’ve only had it once before I think. It’s very strange to feel nothing though, 2 days out!

@GlassLily no I don’t really bother tracking O because it was always day 13 so stopped when my sticks ran out. I think Ive had this one other time and that’s it. I didn’t really get loads of white CM and then not getting sore boobs from the progesterone is making me think nothing happened. Although weirdly actually, I got the smallest bit of blood around O day which I did take as an ovulation bleed but maybe was something else.
Yes I can imagine, you’ll soon be rattling through the weeks though once you have your scan! Is that NHS or your own one?

Can’t trust my RHR as I went out drinking with friends yesterday so shot up now 😂

@LS2020 that's exciting! All sounds very promising. Keep us updated!

I wouldn't mind this first bit going a bit quicker! So nervous for the scan, but staying optimistic. I live overseas so not nhs. Having a due date of next year makes it all seem so impossibly far away.

Yes my rhr would stay up for days after drinking, so annoying that it messes with tracking!

(Just to be clear, the drinking I'm talking about was before I got pregnant..!)

Oh and I took a CB Digi today - I know they are awful and I've read so much about them being inaccurate, so I was wary about using it.... but I had one left over so thought I'd give it a go and got 3+! So I'm going to stop testing now

Hey everyone, I hope I can jump in on this! I've recently discovered the RHR link and have been tracking mine along with my BBT.

I'm 6dpo today and my resting rate has dropped to 67, although it's still early in the morning.
Do others find that their RHR drops just before implantation? or drops then rises again?

@Juno231 damn I’m sorry AF arrived!! Hope you are ok!

@LS2020 how did your appointment go today? Ahhh annoying for the weird cycle but you never know 🤞. Hope all is well.

@GlassLily lovely dye stealer there ☺️

@ArBird hi, welcome! Yes definitely can have a dip at implantation. Doesn’t always happen tho. I had a little dip on mine, only by a couple of beats. I do find that RHR and BBT really do correlate nicely.

Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth. We went away and I made sure I was phoneless! Was a nice break xxxx

@mumof23188 appointment was fab - been referred and hope to start in next couple of weeks!!

@mumof23188 so glad to hear you’ve had some rest and taking care of your little one.. some TLC is always needed!

@LS2020 that is absolutely fantastic news. I’m so happy for you. What’s the first step? Thank you my lovely. It was such a nice break ☺️

@mumof23188 I believe we meet with a nurse who sets us up for it all and then we start the following cycle. Feels like it’s hitting me now! I think I’m deffo too optimistic and a bit underprepared but deciding to go in innocent so I don’t obsess about

@LS2020 wow that’s amazing. I’m so glad you don’t have to wait either, you’ve been waiting long enough. I think you are going in to it with the right attitude ☺️. Please keep me updated lovely. Where are you at in your cycle now?

@mumof23188 I agree! Well I thought AF was due today but the trackers changed my dates by 2 days for some reason so still two days to go. Have been so PMSy this month so feels like it’s absolutely dragged. Hoping it’s just one more cycle and then the next will be ivf 🤞🏻

Do not get a vaccine a day before AF is due.. look at that jump 😂 as a side note my blooming arm is killing me!!!

@LS2020 ah so strange it’s changed! 🤞🤞🤞 fingers crossed for you that you can get started ASAP. 😱😱 god that’s irritating that’s it’s risen, just looked back on mine and I had a rise after mine but mines up and down so hard to say if it was the jab! My arm was so painful too after my jab for a good 24 hours then it started easing off. Will you test??

@ls2020 ha I got mine at 7dpo and that really messed with my head too! From an RHR point of view I mean. My arm was super sore as well. Which one did you get? I'm excited for your IVF ball rolling - I've got my next appt on the 17th and am hoping that will be us doing the funding application :). How long did you have to wait to get funding and then get IVF started? Being in London I'm thinking I might not get started until the end of the year potentially!

@mumof23188 if it’s up tomorrow I might as I will deffo be late tomorrow especially for my cycle length. I just don’t feel anything though this cycle. Felt a bit nauseous this morning but assume it’s the jab. My arm is still killing. Worried I was having a fever this am as went very hot, sweaty and sucky but seem to be picking up now!

@Juno231 I had the moderna which I forgot was even an option 😂 ahh hope you can move on with soon. Tbh I have no clue, I’ve seen in the leaflet about needing to do one but we spoke to head consultant on Monday and he was just pretty much like ‘yeah you get 3 rounds on nhs and then it’s £400 a year to store after 3 years’ and that’s all he said. Then when we confirmed referral, he implied it would be about 4-5 weeks we’d be contacted by a nurse to do the timetable so maybe they’re doing now? We signed a load of HEFA documents etc when we got sent to clinic so maybe we already signed what we needed to?!
Tbf our timeframes are all over the place as they said late July for consultant and we had one last week 🤷‍♀️

The word I was looking for there was sicky not sucky 🤣

@ls2020 I got moderna too! I ended up really ill for 12h but on the second night - meanwhile OH only ever had the sore arm. I know what you mean about the timelines, I was expecting an appointment in July for the funding application but got this random June one instead.

@Juno231 such a random one right?! But yeah arm has been the worst. Was worried I was fevering this morning but seem okay now 🤞🏻
This is from the website and similar to what consultant said so really hope we don’t have to wait longer than 5 weeks now

So I had some bad cramping last night and my RHR dropped 1bpm so assumed AF was on its way but still nothing. Qtip test is clean too. Very odd as barely ever late. I just don’t feel anything so don’t want to bother testing 😂

@LS2020 it hurts so much doesn’t it! Ah frustrating, do you have any cheapies? Anymore cramping today?

@mumof23188 not needed in the end, it showed as I was running out the door to work 😂
Feel weirder than normal about, almost more impatient for IVF and annoyed I have to wait a month now for appointment

@LS2020 I’m so sorry lovely. That’s just utter shit. I totally understand what you mean. It must be so hard for you. It was like a last chance before IVF. Look after yourself 😘