Tracking your cycle and possible BFP using RHR

[winterspinach]

I know there was a thread where ladies tracked their rhr about a year ago and wanted to start it back up again as i’m tracking my resting heart rate! at about 7dpo today and it’s been rising for me! anyone else tracking rhr for bfp?

Thank you ☺️.

Going to have to read back on this thread to see how everyone else is doing.

Up one more BPM today but zero symptoms 🫣.

@winterspinach you are never out until AF arrives, and your heart rate is still quite high, even when sleeping. Mine drops low over night. I also started taking omega 3 haha, but not selenium which I haven’t heard of. I’m starting to rattle with the amount of pills I take. Hope some of them work soon!

@Ashmax good luck to you too. What dpo are you?

@ChickinMarangoThe omega's 🤢 started them this week myself.
Do the fishy burps count as nausea? 🥲. Yet to find a brand that doesn't repeat on me.

@Annapolis35

Apologies a draft of that message got posted 😂.

@Annapolis35 so I'm actually not 100% sure! I had a MC and my cycle is still a little all over the place.

@Ashmax oooh that’s promising, hope it keep rising for you!! you might start getting symptoms in a few days 🫢

@Annapolis35 selenium is really good for female and male fertility so i get my husband take them when I do. apparently you can eat one brazilian nut a day and that’s your selenium intake done! which prenatals do u take?

i get so nervy checking my rhr in the morning, i’m dreading what it might say tomorrow lol

dipped to 75 :( af due tomorrow so think i might be out

@winterspinach Oh no I’m sorry to see this. Hope you’re alright. I take folic acid, vitamin d, maca, omega 3 and coq 10. I should really just take an all in one but I bought these all separately over about a year.

@Ashmax sorry you had a mc, I also had one too earlier this year. It takes a while for your body to get back to normal and that’s quite frustrating

@Annapolis35 thank you, it’s okay though. I’ve recently started fertility cupping so its alright if this isn’t my cycle. i tested with frer this morn and it was a bfn, but onwards and upwards :) hopefully we have more luck during our next cycle! just waiting for af to show up later today or tomorrow now haha

@winterspinach Glad you’re feeling alright. I always feel relieved once it has arrived after all the anxiety of the 2ww, it means a fresh start next cycle. I feel good about the next cycle, I have a what will be will be attitude at the moment. What is fertility cupping? I am learning so much about my body through this process.

@Annapolis35 thank you :) i have high hopes for next cycle. whenever i have a cycle that hasn’t worked out, i tell myself it’s just one cycle closer.
that’s the best attitude to have towards it, deffo reduces the stress of it all.
cupping is an homeopathic treatment where stagnant blood is drawn from the body and it increases blood flow and eases tension in the body. the fertility side of it concentrates on lower back, where your uterus and fallopian tubes are.
usually spot the day before af but nothing so far. i’m holding on to the last speck of hope

@winterspinach thats such a nice way of looking at it and I will definitely look at it that way. The last few months I got really blue and stressed when my period arrived, and it was not doing me any good. I feel okay about it this month though. This cycle I’m going in with the mindset that if it’s going to happen it will happen, there’s no point stressing about something I can’t control and I trust my body to do right by me—the latter has been hard after a missed miscarriage. The cupping sounds interesting! I’ve heard acupuncture helps too. I’ve been doing more yoga and plan to this month as it always makes me feel so relaxed and loose

@Annapolis35
im glad you’re feeling better about this month - sometimes sharing your journey can help a little too.
I understand how hard it can be after a miscarriage. i had one a few months ago and my anxiety sky rocketed but i’ve started to feel a bit better.
Ive heard great things about acupuncture! I wanted to find a clinic that does it near me so it can relax me. I hope the yoga goes well, do you take classes or do it at home?

I had a very steep drop this morning but no af just yet, but at this point it’s deffo coming 🫢

Oh no, well I hope it arrives soon so you aren’t waiting around for it. As you said, one more cycle towards a positive! Yeah I had quite a bit of anxiety too after the miscarriage too, it’s really taken a long time to get back to feeling normal. I am glad you are feeling better too, be gentle on yourself.

I just do yoga at home as I am not great at it and worry about falling over in public haha. I found some nice fertility ones on YouTube that are quite gentle - there’s a lady called Bettina Rae who is just lovely

@winterspinach

Hey just read the thread and wondered what happened this week.

This is my chart with ovulation circled and I'm 9dpo TTC baby #1

thanks @Annapolis35 , I want to start yoga too so i’ll check her out! hope you’ve been having a good week :)
Af came and is almost over, prob another day or two and then it’s gearing up for ovulation again! Drinking lots of Pom Wonderful to thicken my lining over the next two weeks and it turns out we’re having our staycation during my fertile week so looking forward to it.

@TTC2022newbie your chart looking promising hopefully it rises for you! My af eventually arrived but it was such a steep rise compared to previous cycles i feel almost convinced it was a failed implantation.
Good luck to you and hopefully you get your bfp soon! let us know how it goes 💖💖💖💖

Morning @winterspinach it could well have been failed implantation! I wonder if that explains mine rising so quickly too (although could’ve been illness). Looking back, on 9dpo my rhr dropped very suddenly to 43 and I wonder if that was failing implantation. Oh Pom juice!! There is so much to learn. When do you think you’ll ovulate? I’m on day 8 of cycle and ovulation has happened before anywhere from day 17-22 so we will start dtd on the reg soon. I’ll use ovulation sticks. I’m hoping my cycles are going back to pre-mc length of 29/30 days.

I feel quite calm about this cycle, I think mostly as we are going to Thailand on 31 October so if it doesn’t work out at least there’s something good to look forward to.

@TTC2022newbie it could be a good sign that something has happened. I have my fingers crossed for you.

@Ashmax did you have any joy?

I'm not sure about me.

Going by my 'usual' pre MC cycle and taking Monday as when AF is due.

Have taken 3 FRER'S since suspected 6 days before AF due and think I'm getting stung by evaps. 3/3.

My HR leveled off and went back down again. It spiked and has stayed spiked for the last 3 days.

@Ashmax the heart rate is a positive sign. I’m afraid I can’t see anything on that test, but I’m never particularly good at things like that. Fingers crossed!

Not to worry! Was a hard one to photograph.

Pretty sure that was an evap line any way!

Been taking Sainsbury's own brand 6 days early tests and have been seeing something. But these are notorious for false positives!

AF (I think) due tomorrow and HR has decreased. It did with my last BFP that I lost at 5 weeks. Although HRV and breathing rates on Fitbit have been interesting! Have you ever looked at these on the TWW?

@Ashmax I can definitely see something on that test so that’s exciting! Keep us updated tomorrow and hope AF doesn’t show.

I haven’t really looked at either HRV or breathing rate before, I didn’t even know they were there! What have they been telling you? I’ll keep an eye on that now to see.

It's heart rate variability.

So on the days I noticed my HR being generally elevated and a higher daily HR my HRV also changed in trends.

I looked it up and HRV in pregnancy was supposedly lower. I probably wouldn't be the best at explaining of you want to Google.

Found it on health metrics but it only gives a 7 week view so I have been keeping notes on mine.

I can’t really make much sense of mine as only really just noticed it so will keep an eye over the next month. My HRV is a lot lower than yours but I have read that individuals have their own baseline and you can’t really compare it to other people, but just rather your own trends. Be interesting to keep an eye on! Hope AF doesn’t show today

Morning all

I'm 12dpo AF due Wednesday and still BFN but RHR is still going up 🤷🏼‍♀️ no idea why!

Had some symptoms on 9dpo but nothing really since.

I got my dates totally wrong! AF was due yesterday.

My HR had been going up but nothing dramatic.

Will share the graph from my last pregnancy. It ended up as MC.

HRV has been interesting this time around however.

Congratulations @Ashmax looks positive!

@TTC2022newbie Very positive rhr, fingers crossed.