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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. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto
    jmto said:
    garmin needs to pay for money I spent on the doctor for no reason!! 

    Or perhaps you need to learn how to take your pulse manually to check.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto

    heart rate rises at rest only then something is wrong with your autonomic nervous system or your heart has some problems For instance with FR935 I had many alarms with high heart rate while sitting behind the desk. Usually had also dizziness, prefaint condition, balance problems  etc. half year after I got diagnosed with POTS. The only thing is that with FR 935 I could trust my OHR readings, with FR945 I cannot trust them. Had yesterday also alarm going off. Checked manually, my hr was 80, not over 100 as watch said...

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    I didn't say that quote :) I don't need to learn that.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Andres379
    Andres379 said:
    heart rate rises at rest only then something is wrong with your autonomic nervous system or your heart has some problems

    Umm. No. My last abnormal alert was after VO2Max run. I was just driving home, no problems. It was still high from the activity.

    Before that, I had 4 months of no sports, no sweating allowed and I got those kind of often as my fitness dropped a low.. just a little bit more activity or stress and I got the alerts. Again nothing wrong with the heart.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I have the same issue. When running it seems to be correct; but when I choose my manually created sport [floorball], it makes no sense. Floorball is like indoor hockey; lots of intervals back and forth. How can it be that I am sitting on the bench catching for breath after a tough shift and it only shows HR of 150? But for running it seems pretty spot on. Really annoying and seems to be sports-based, but not sure how to fix it, really. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto

    Yes, that is different story. I meant the situation, where your HR is at rest and it rises without you moving or just by standing up more than 30 bpm.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto

    Apologies. I’ll blame the way the thread referred the quote to you and not the original

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I’m 100% with you on this and have been meaning to post for a while. Me scratching my dog’s ears with my left hand results in an abnormal heart rate alert without fail. Quite odd as I am pretty sure both of us find that activity quite relaxing. I got quite concerned at first until I was able to replicate it consistently. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Dr Phil
    Dr Phil said:
    Apologies.

    No worries. It's also pretty understandable that if you quote quote it credits wrong person, but just had to comment that :D 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Sbanjo89

    You know, this is very interesting, thanks for sharing - I have restless leg, and when my watch is on my leg when it's twitching, that will trigger the abnormal heart rate.  It would be similar to scratching your dog's ears.  Hopefully Garmin reads these comments and it points them to a possible solution!!