My resting heart rate is comically low. Like 43bpm low. I couldn’t imagine 86bpm as resting. 50 feels fast to me at this point.
Every damn time someone puts one of those stupid heart rate monitors on me they start panicking.
I ended up in the er (not my idea) and once I was back in the room, with the monitor on, every five minutes or so, some nurse would poke their head in “ you feeling ok?” “You sure?” “Your heart rate is really low. You sure you’re ok?”
Before the surgery they sent me in for a testing procedure and I kept setting off the alarm. It seemed to happen whenever my heart rate dropped below 45bpm. No one seemed concerned though
Eventually, both husband and I would say I’m a runner, when they would come in, and that seemed to assuage their concerns. The first handful asked that, and I’d say yes, and they seemed good with that answer. I’m sure a lot of their concern was because I was there for heart things to begin with.
I did also learn that day that the apple watch heart rate was spot on with the one in the hospital. The hospital turned the alarm off pretty quickly since it wouldn’t shut up.
I’ve had other way weirder experiences with nurses freaking about my low heartrate though.
FWIW “normal” heart rates are like 60-100 (and women apparently have higher. I’m a woman) so I can see a wildly low deviation setting some alarm bells off, but if patient isn’t even surprised or concerned, that should be a pretty good indication of it being normal for them.
My resting heart rate is comically low. Like 43bpm low. I couldn’t imagine 86bpm as resting. 50 feels fast to me at this point.
Every damn time someone puts one of those stupid heart rate monitors on me they start panicking.
I ended up in the er (not my idea) and once I was back in the room, with the monitor on, every five minutes or so, some nurse would poke their head in “ you feeling ok?” “You sure?” “Your heart rate is really low. You sure you’re ok?”
You can barely play jazz at 43bpm. What were you thinking?
You CAN, it just won’t sound as good.
I’ll make sure to tell my heart to get its shit together and be less efficient.
Thank you!
Before the surgery they sent me in for a testing procedure and I kept setting off the alarm. It seemed to happen whenever my heart rate dropped below 45bpm. No one seemed concerned though
Eventually, both husband and I would say I’m a runner, when they would come in, and that seemed to assuage their concerns. The first handful asked that, and I’d say yes, and they seemed good with that answer. I’m sure a lot of their concern was because I was there for heart things to begin with.
I did also learn that day that the apple watch heart rate was spot on with the one in the hospital. The hospital turned the alarm off pretty quickly since it wouldn’t shut up.
I’ve had other way weirder experiences with nurses freaking about my low heartrate though.
FWIW “normal” heart rates are like 60-100 (and women apparently have higher. I’m a woman) so I can see a wildly low deviation setting some alarm bells off, but if patient isn’t even surprised or concerned, that should be a pretty good indication of it being normal for them.