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Abnormal Heart Rate Issues.

bdub25
over 4 years ago

So last night around 3:30 am EST time, my wife was feeding our new born and then my watch alarm starts sounding, my wife is like "what is that?". I looked at my watch and it said my heart rate was 129... this caused panic and I immediately grabbed my iPhone and opened the stopwatch and time my heart rate.. I counted 12 beat for 15 seconds so this means my pulse was actually 48 beats, but the watch still showed 129 and was going up. Now I'm really starting to panic and I counted my pulse over and over ( about 4 times ) and each time I consistently got around 46-48 beats a minute except for once I got 69 because of me starting to panic. When I woke up this morning, my resting heart rate was normal 42. I also have notice that the watch has been giving me credit for activities when I'm not really active at the time. I didn't have either one of these issues a couple firmwares ago.    

Does anyone else find that Garmin's abnormal heart rate notification worthless? I've really been trying to be satisfied with the 945, but it seems like with every update they fix one thing and break 9 others. 

Does anyone here use Polar? I was thinking of getting rid of the 945 and getting the Grid X.    

Thanks for any feedback. 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I did another hiking yesterday and same route. I selected RUN mode instead of HIKE mode. HR record was correct. It could go up to 170 and gave me high HR alert.

    Therefore I think there is an issue of HR in HIKE mode so can Garmin look into it?

    Thanks.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Garmin says on their pages: "Additionally, HR is calculated differently for each activity.  Use the activity app that matches the activity being done.  For example, using the Elliptical app while running outdoors could result in incorrect HR being recorded."

    So I would assume there's some validation and so on... and in HIKE you should be walking and the HR should not go that high. Use run if you care about optical HR or use strap. I don't think that your case is something they would want generally change based on your really high HR during hiking.

    And also they say: "While Garmin’s wrist heart rate monitor technology is state of the art, there are inherent limitations with the technology that may cause some of the heart rate readings to be inaccurate under certain circumstances."

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto

    Well, what you wrote is correct, but there is always room for improvments. And Garmin showed quite correct hr with it's OHR (at least in my case) with 4.20 firmware version. It went nuts with 4.40. while Garmin's "wrist heart rate monitor technology is state of the art", buggy firmware can ruin the experience and also Apple can somehow make much more accurate OHR ;)

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Andres379

    Well, to me OHR itself is unreliable and buggy, I'll use the proven method with HR straps when doing activities :D Only OHR for me is the 24/7 which is use by trends to determine things like am I really overtraining or getting ill or what and because of trends the exact numbers doesn't matter so much and I can trust it that much.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I actually had the alarm go off ~20 minutes after I finished a run last night.  We were just standing in line for post-run beers, and BEEP BEEP BEEP...  It had *barely* gone over 100.   In fact when I checked, it had already settled back into the 80s.   Just stupid.   Garmin needs to figure this out...  I'd set it to 110-120, but I've had it spike to ridiculous numbers like 180 when I'm just sitting at the computer. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I have the same issue and I even went a cardiologist.. garmin needs to pay for money I spent on the doctor for no reason!! 

    Mine is still bad and I thought the last update would fix it but it didn't...

    I called them and they said we can replace it but it's not going to fix your issue

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Never had this problem in my 945

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to MarinusvD

    I think I encountered this once or twice.

    Garmin declared the watch shouldn't be taken as a medical device.

    So if you have an abnormal HR, just counter check with a proper blood pressure monitor.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Ahmedian
    Ahmedian said:
    I have the same issue and I even went a cardiologist.. garmin needs to pay for money I spent on the doctor for no reason!! 

    Ouch. You should have consulted the manual first: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/forerunner945/EN-US/GUID-A1C8190D-D4D6-4EE4-9B31-87AE009433AA.html

    "This feature only alerts you when your heart rate exceeds or drops below a certain number of beats per minute, as selected by the user, after a period of inactivity. This feature does not notify you of any potential heart condition and is not intended to treat or diagnose any medical condition or disease. Always defer to your health care provider for any heart-related issues."

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto

    Granted the warning should just probably say "High/Low HR detected", as that is what it is, not anything to do with the HR being abnormal on medical way.