HCD77 Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 My Apple Watch is showing very high heart rates when I stand . I was wondering if it is accurate ? Does anybody use an Apple Watch to monitor heart rate ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yogini Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Any electronic signal in your home (or wherever you are) can interfere with the measurement of HR on one of these home devices. So a cell phone, wifi, etc can screw it up. Otherwise the apple watch is pretty accurate. If you have a doubt, just manually count your pulse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Lisa C said: My Apple Watch is showing very high heart rates when I stand . This is actually "normal" for POTS 😒 - that is why they call it Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. It is one of the hallmark symptoms - so don't be surprised if your watch is accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCD77 Posted July 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 @Pistol I guess I was hoping it was wrong, ugh my HR went up to 179 today ! Just picking up a few twigs on my lawn. I think I’m in the denial stage thinking I’ll just get over this and find the right meds. This HR was on meds! 10 mg of Midodrine 3xs a day. I want to try propanol to see if it helps . The Apple Watch is what made me start thinking I had POTS. I also measure HR with Pulse Oximeter but I never see it above 116 maybe 120 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 @Lisa C - yes, I am intimately familiar with the denial phase!!!! I think we all are. I am surprised that you are not yet on a beta blocker, since that is commonly the first med doctors prescribe for the tachycardia. I too was on Midodrine, but when my second autonomic specialist diagnosed HPOTS he said it does not help for HPOTS. I responded very well to Carvelidol ( after I had tried Metoprolol and Bystolic without good results ), and I also needed calcium channel blocker for high BP despite the Beta blocker. If your EP decides to start a BB please know that initially it will make you tires - and that is a normal side effect that will go away after the inital few first weeks. Also they get normally started on a very low dose, so it may not show significant difference in the beginning until it gets slowly increased. 7 hours ago, Lisa C said: Just picking up a few twigs on my lawn. Huh - that will do it!!!! The up-and-down motion is extremely bad for us, I cannot even hang laundry without becoming symptomatic!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 I never knew what my problem was until I got my Apple watch last Fall. I always knew I felt "weird" when I stood up and sometimes felt faint, but didn't know what was happening until I noticed my heart rate jumps on my watch/phone. I think my first day of monitoring my HR, I noticed a jump from 47 to 127 after 1 minute of standing. Then, after about 3 or 4 minutes, it goes back down. Recently, I haven't had any huge swings - mainly around 30-40 increase in rate. Yup, bending over to do yard work gets my heart rate up fast - often up in the 150's-160's depending on how long I bend over. When I stand up after bending down for a long time is when I almost pass out. No fun for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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