Fitbit (or other HR monitoring devices)

I think they are genius. I haven't got one. But it is exciting as to where they are going to go.

Money well spent imo.

I don't have one but always meant to. For some reason I forget about it and then i am reminded like this. Maybe this time I will.

Wow, that is pretty low of a heart rate. I know it can be normal for it to drop when sleeping, though.. but that might be even lower than normal. I read the other day some get down to around 40... so who knows, maybe it could be normal. Your resting heart rate otherwise is still kind of low, too.. but can be normal. My mom has a naturally lower heart rate, but she is also really into exercising often... when mine goes too low or too high it's usually because of my thyroid!

I will have to check it out. Thanks heather.

I'll second that...

I actually ordered on a couple of days ago.

So, I put it on yesterday... and I might have had 1 glitch in readings so far already lol it showed my heart rate nearly at 200 for 2 minutes while I was just sitting at my computer. I think I would have noticed that. My guess is that it accidentally was counting 2-3 of my beats together. Or even half of my bpm. I was averaging around the 70s mostly at the time before it happened.

I wore it through the entire night. It shows my heart spiking to in the low 90s and upper 80s here and there. I was looking at the sleep chart and it might coincide with my REM sleep and light sleep mostly (either that or I have mild sleep apnea). Then it showed me going in the 50s only at two points the entire night for not very long even... maybe that was my very deep sleep stages. It shows I was in a deep sleep for around 1.5 hours. Now I want to look up how long we should typically be in each stage to see if I'm normal lol it gave me a score of 86 for my sleep. My heart rate mostly was in the 60s and 70s the entire night, so I guess that is good...

It's good to get an idea of what my normal should be for sure... then I can actually spot when something is worth undergoing some tests for. What I am worried about is the possibility of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation... that can be even harder to spot. I have some strange episodes at times that concern me, so now I will have a way to keep better track of it and maybe be able to show it to my physician.

Be sure you wear it properly. I think some of my poor/glitchy readings was having it a little too close to my wrist bone at the time.... I think when I was flexing my wrist or moving my arms too much might be when it randomly shows a spike. I didn't have it too loose, but sometimes I moved it to the wrong spot for reading the HR I guess ;p I will see if it does it anymore now that I have it in a better location.

Thank you Heather. I'll be sure to try to wear it correctly at least and go from there.

I had a friend who was a dietician, she hated people coming in with pages torn out of magazines lol