Heart rate of 192bpm and didn't know

If your heart was beating that fast, you would know it.

Chalk it up to a gadget malfunctioning.

This is an example of why we returned Beth's Fitbit: accuracy.

Chieflrg wrote: »

If your heart was beating that fast, you would know it.

Chalk it up to a gadget malfunctioning.

Not necessarily. Depends on what her max heart rate is. There's a decent portion of the population where the 220-age calculation is useless, so if she's not tested it she might have a high one and not know it. Mine's high, and I have to pop my HR up into the upper 190s for several minutes before I start getting winded.

OP, having a high max heart rate is not a negative as far as health or fitness is concerned, so it's no big deal if that's the case. It will mean that calorie calculation based on HR monitors that aren't calibrated for your max and resting HR are going to be even more inaccurate than they are for everyone else.

Spliner1969 wrote: »

Yup, Fitbits aren't great for accuracy. Get a Polar HR strap instead. It's probably the most accurate you'll get without a full-on medical device. But I've even seen those glitch from time to time if you don't keep the sensor pads moist enough.

Polar HR strap isn't something you're going to wear all day, every day, though. I've had the HR strap for my Garmin doing glitchy things during a run before like recording a 200+ BPM heart rate when I'm at an easy jog a few minutes in to my run and then settling back down to the 140 BPM or so it actually was.

As long as it's not a regular problem I'd let it slide.

staceygriffiths13 wrote: »

I was just checking my Fitbit details from yesterday and it seems my heart rate peaked at 192bpm for 10 minutes around noon. My resting heart rate is normally 55-59 bpm. I didn't do anything physically difficult yesterday and can't even remember any symptoms when and if my heart rate got that high. Could it be a glitch?

I would take it, that you weren't working out when this happened. So I would think that if your heart started beating that fast you would know it! Probably just one of those glitches.

SueInAz wrote: »

Spliner1969 wrote: »

Yup, Fitbits aren't great for accuracy. Get a Polar HR strap instead. It's probably the most accurate you'll get without a full-on medical device. But I've even seen those glitch from time to time if you don't keep the sensor pads moist enough.

Polar HR strap isn't something you're going to wear all day, every day, though. I've had the HR strap for my Garmin doing glitchy things during a run before like recording a 200+ BPM heart rate when I'm at an easy jog a few minutes in to my run and then settling back down to the 140 BPM or so it actually was.

As long as it's not a regular problem I'd let it slide.

I've been using a polar chest strap for 4 years for 1 hr a day 4 to 5 days a week. while I've gotten some glitch readings on gym equipment I've never got a high reading on my watch, or in my report, even when I had a faulty sensor, the it would not read sometimes, but never give me reading all over the place.

Noelani1503 wrote: »

Hornsby wrote: »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supraventricular_tachycardia

Keep an eye out.

I have this. It's something most people feel, especially if they weren't doing anything strenuous at the time. It's possible that you had an episode, but extremely unlikely. Since it was a Fitbit that picked it up, it's even less likely. And even if you experienced this, a cardiologist probably isn't going to care if you didn't have accompanying symptoms, or if your heart rate didn't slow down on its own.

As do I.

I found out I had it from a Garmin chest strap. HR spiked to 250 for about 10 minutes. Freaked me the hell out.

Spliner1969 wrote: »

Yup, Fitbits aren't great for accuracy. Get a Polar HR strap instead. It's probably the most accurate you'll get without a full-on medical device. But I've even seen those glitch from time to time if you don't keep the sensor pads moist enough.

Wouldn't know. They're not ANT+.