Is my heart rate normal

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Walkywalkerson wrote: »

Are fitness trackers accurate though?
My Fitbit puts my resting heartrate between 50 - 55 most days and goes up if I'm due my period or have had a night out with alcohol involved.
The chart for fitness puts me at the heart rate of someone of excellent fitness - which is definitely not the case 🤣

my heart rate is usually mid/high 40s (I'm a runner), it goes up to low/mid 50s for around a week during ovulation....

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thisvickyruns wrote: »

Walkywalkerson wrote: »

Are fitness trackers accurate though?
My Fitbit puts my resting heartrate between 50 - 55 most days and goes up if I'm due my period or have had a night out with alcohol involved.
The chart for fitness puts me at the heart rate of someone of excellent fitness - which is definitely not the case 🤣

my heart rate is usually mid/high 40s (I'm a runner), it goes up to low/mid 50s for around a week during ovulation....

Is this when you're asleep or when you're resting during the day?

during the day, I don't wear my watch when I sleep

39flavours wrote: »

thisvickyruns wrote: »

39flavours wrote: »

thisvickyruns wrote: »

Walkywalkerson wrote: »

Are fitness trackers accurate though?
My Fitbit puts my resting heartrate between 50 - 55 most days and goes up if I'm due my period or have had a night out with alcohol involved.
The chart for fitness puts me at the heart rate of someone of excellent fitness - which is definitely not the case 🤣

my heart rate is usually mid/high 40s (I'm a runner), it goes up to low/mid 50s for around a week during ovulation....

Is this when you're asleep or when you're resting during the day?

during the day, I don't wear my watch when I sleep

Ah OK, that's really low for during the day, must be even lower at night

it's normal for me, I'm reasonably fit.

heybales wrote: »

Fitbit's resting HR value as displayed is not what is usually considered resting HR, first thing in the morning at it's lowest.
So you can look at your HR graph and find your morning lowest. Keep looking at that low, it's good to note those changes.

Fitbit seems to include in their value daytime resting too.

And get ready for the Dr visit when he looks at data and says this doesn't appear that low - have the phrase ready that is not normal as you were stressed and it's normally whatever lower value.


Whenever I follow the nurse in, hop on table, and get my blood pressure and they say seems high - I always respond "that seems high for just walking in and getting up here?" - to which they usually sheepishly admit maybe not.
I'll ask if they want to try again after some restful minutes. Such a crock, which I like to make a point of since those checks allows tagging the visit for insurance as a full workup.

my docs office always kills time before doing the BP to give it time to settle. review medication list, review reason for visit, has anything changed, yadda yadda yadda then does BP right before doc comes in

in my case, i have pretty low BP, so id just get a 'normal' reading if done soon, which, if the nurse that day bothered to look at my history, might freak her out thinking something was horribly wrong. my doc certainly would notice and retake it himself.

anyway yes, it does seem fitbit does take the daytime resting heart rate as your resting heart rate. i go by the night time one which for me is in the low 60s. was in the 50s but one of my meds has increased it a bit it seems.

That's cool it gives a range, letting you see the low that easily instead of zooming in on chunk of time and perhaps getting a specific reading to see it's low.

I'd agree not a real resting HR value either - perhaps despite attempting to figure out when you got up, these devices don't want to assume they are right, and that the low morning HR reading before wakeup really is the resting HR.
So they just avg all the low values that perhaps have no steps during that time.

Low heart rate is called Bradycardia. It can be caused by a lot of things. Best to have a doc check it. But don’t worry- I’ve had it for years- even at >100 lbs overweight. Sometimes it can mean something isn’t right though so good that you’re seeing a doctor.

My heart rate runs about 43-44 even as I sit here writing this. It is normal for me. Never been to a cardiologist but numerous GP’s have told me not to worry about it.

I use a Garmin forerunner 35 (their cheapo model) and it is always spot on when I test manually.
Make getting into the “heart rate zones” etc really challenging for me.

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

heybales wrote: »

Fitbit's resting HR value as displayed is not what is usually considered resting HR, first thing in the morning at it's lowest.
So you can look at your HR graph and find your morning lowest. Keep looking at that low, it's good to note those changes.

Fitbit seems to include in their value daytime resting too.

And get ready for the Dr visit when he looks at data and says this doesn't appear that low - have the phrase ready that is not normal as you were stressed and it's normally whatever lower value.


Whenever I follow the nurse in, hop on table, and get my blood pressure and they say seems high - I always respond "that seems high for just walking in and getting up here?" - to which they usually sheepishly admit maybe not.
I'll ask if they want to try again after some restful minutes. Such a crock, which I like to make a point of since those checks allows tagging the visit for insurance as a full workup.

This annoys me at my doctor's office. They pretty much break every guidance on taking blood pressure. They do it first thing after they walk me back to the exam room and have me hop up on the table, no support for my feet, no support for the arm they're measuring the blood pressure in, asking me questions so I'm talking while they take it ... which you couldn't do in the old days when the person taking the measurement had to be listening with a stethoscope, but now that it's all automated, apparently there's no requirement for the person taking the BP to actually know the right way to do it.

that reminds me of a follow up visit my husband had at his ENT earlier this summer. The chick (not an RN, im not even sure a CNA) first didnt hook up the cuff and couldnt figure out why it wouldnt come on. then figured that out, but put the cuff on inside out on his arm, so it inflated....toward the outside. im sitting there (having been raised by a nurse who then taught nursing and wanted nothing more in the world than for ME to be a nurse and basically felt like i lived in a nursing boarding school my entire childhood thinking 'OMFG'. hubby is getting more irritated by the minute. the assistant is acting like shes never seen any of this equipment in her life. Finally gets a pressure off him, and its normal, but like me, a normal reading is HIGH for him. So I ask her to recheck the connections, and recheck his pressure. 'because that reading is high for him'... 'its a normal reading' ...'not for him its not'

now im getting irritated. up until that point i had been doing quite well to hide my irritation. hubby was not even bothering to hide HIS irritation lol

'never mind. we'll just wait for the doctor'

few minutes later, the doc comes in, I tell him what happened. he apologizes for that, shes filling in for someone, we'll do the exam and he'll do the bp himself at the end. which he did. manually. pressure was (hubbys) normal.

dont have someone fill in who cant hook up a machine a 5 year old can connect and push a button. ugh. ive never wanted to take over someones job so bad with 'here, just let me do it'