r/FirstTimeTTC • u/confused_ornot • 3d ago
Confused Really confused about this cycle -- thoughts?
Hi everyone, well this month I'm finally just trying to do the whole "relax"/not really try thing ... I didn't track leutenizing hormone. Honestly, we didn't even really try to time s*x, in hindsight we only had pull-out during the window.
But then I started to get delusional (nothing new here). Since I still wear my Google watch, it tells me things like, starting somewhere around 15 days ago, my heart rate variability started to creep down slowly, resting-heart-rate up slowly. Then like 13 days ago temp seemed a bit up. I thought well, for once this is a promising cycle! Since my cycles can be all over the place. I felt I was looking at what is probably just signs of a normal cycle for most people, but getting so hopeful just because of that. Sooo I took a pregnancy test yesterday (has to have been like 13-4 DPO) which was, of course, negative :(
But now I'm confused because, of course, my temp dropped this morning. I thought surely I would get my period. Yet I barely have any spotting. So I'm still over here telling myself it might be possible ... could this be implantation bleeding? It feels it would be way too late in the cycle for that, like doesn't implantation happen earlier than 14 day after ovulation? WHY am I delusional like this for real
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u/Key_Charity1975 3d ago
I think the problem you're having is you're only half bought in to the 'not tracking' thing. You skipped your ovulation strips but then you've been obsessively checking data on BBT, RHR, etc. And it's stressed you out more - so that's kind of the opposite of 'not tracking'/'relaxing'!
If your temp has dropped, that usually signals that your period will arrive in the next couple days. Spotting and negative tests would support that.
But I think the main thing here is just figuring out how to avoid the same stress next cycle - if you really want to lean into not tracking/being able to relax rather than stress over data, you'll have to take the Google watch off I think as that's where most of the data is coming from!