Resting Heart Rate & O Dates
Jan 12, 2017 8:43:09 GMT -5
Post by MsG on Jan 12, 2017 8:43:09 GMT -5
I know there have been a couple threads about resting heart rate and how it changes during the menstrual cycle, but I wanted to bring it back up now for a couple reasons.
1. I cannot do the bbt thing - because I wake up so frequently throughout the night (I'm a super light sleeper so the slightest noise tends to wake me up - which is unfortunate since I have a husband, pets and live in a fairly populous city with a lot of noises).
2. I have worn a fitness tracker for almost a year now (I've had a few different ones but currently use the Fitbit Blaze), and I have definitely noticed that my RHR starts to climb just a day or two before O, spikes at ovulation and stays high until the luteal phase is over. So for me (and hopefully some of you) a fitness tracker is a super helpful tool for figuring out my cycle.
When I first noticed this (I'm dense so it took me a few months of tracking), I frantically looked up research to see if it was just me, and it also turns out it's not. It appears a rise in RHR correlating with the O date is a documented thing. Two of the apps I use for cycle tracking (Clue and Ovia) actually both recently let you connect your fitbit to the app, and Clue is doing some big study using the data to track RHR patterns and Ovulation.
For your reading pleasure if you're interested:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11100398
blog.helloclue.com/post/146939456931/clue-pilot-study-results-resting-heart-rate (this was about their pilot study, but they are now doing a larger scale one - I can't wait to see the results)
Anyone else have similar experiences with their heart rate monitor/fitness tracker?
1. I cannot do the bbt thing - because I wake up so frequently throughout the night (I'm a super light sleeper so the slightest noise tends to wake me up - which is unfortunate since I have a husband, pets and live in a fairly populous city with a lot of noises).
2. I have worn a fitness tracker for almost a year now (I've had a few different ones but currently use the Fitbit Blaze), and I have definitely noticed that my RHR starts to climb just a day or two before O, spikes at ovulation and stays high until the luteal phase is over. So for me (and hopefully some of you) a fitness tracker is a super helpful tool for figuring out my cycle.
When I first noticed this (I'm dense so it took me a few months of tracking), I frantically looked up research to see if it was just me, and it also turns out it's not. It appears a rise in RHR correlating with the O date is a documented thing. Two of the apps I use for cycle tracking (Clue and Ovia) actually both recently let you connect your fitbit to the app, and Clue is doing some big study using the data to track RHR patterns and Ovulation.
For your reading pleasure if you're interested:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11100398
blog.helloclue.com/post/146939456931/clue-pilot-study-results-resting-heart-rate (this was about their pilot study, but they are now doing a larger scale one - I can't wait to see the results)
Anyone else have similar experiences with their heart rate monitor/fitness tracker?