AF and Samsung Galaxy Fit Smart Watch

[Treschere]

Hi, I am just pondering on a question

In one of the other posts today there was the comment about having AF episodes which go unnoticed. When I went into A&E in June 2020, with my first episode the Consultant said that I would have been having these episodes of AF without realising, I have to say I could agree with the feeling I was experiencing that yes I had been having them. Now my real question is: my Samsung Galaxy Fit Smart Watch on a regular basis, every day, will alert me to the fact that my heart rate has gone over 100, when I quickly take my pulse it is far lower than that, more like my "normal" rate of 60. Does anyone else have this with their watch and pulse?

[Physalis]

I've got an Apple watch. Does your watch record your heart rate all the time, every four or five minutes or so?

My episodes lasted much longer but, if they hadn't, I would have been able to scroll down and see if the watch had picked up fast heart beats which lasted for a short period. Those were the ones that triggered the alert. Probably, by the time you checked your pulse it had stopped.

[Treschere in reply to Physalis]

Yes Physalis my watch does record every ten minutes, and alerts by vibrating when it goes over 100. I can look at my record and see that almost every hour at some point it has gone up, but I don't feel anything. Also the record it kept on my phone to look back over.

[Buffafly]

Yes, my watch records once a minute and though it’s useless for rate when I have AF (although the pattern changes) it shows at least one spike every day but I hardly ever notice them at the time.

[Georgeedgar]

I have the Galaxy fit watch,which has 3 options for heart settings, continuously, every 10mins or manually, also you can adjust heart rate alerts to suit your own needs.

[Treschere in reply to Georgeedgar]

The problem with using it on continuous I think, would be the battery life I already have to charge it once every four/five days. Do you keep yours on continuous or less and do you find it spikes the heart rate at all? Also my resting heart rate is around as it is right now 55, so to get above 100 is where I have set my alert, because I don't go that high unless I am exercising. Since being on my meds and using my watch I know that my night time rate is around 40/45.

[Georgeedgar in reply to Treschere]

The 46mm has the larger battery, yes it does use more battery on continuous, my heart rates are similar to yours,100m flecanide am,pm and 1.25 bisoprolol a.m. with exercise occasionally 130's that's when I ease up a bit.you do get the occasional blip when resting which you can reset by going into manual measurement and generally charge it every couple of days

[john-boy-92]

Most heart monitors / smart watches give an inaccurate reading if you have AF or atrial flutter, although Polar are usually better. I assume that your measurement is on the wrist, with the watch using green or green and red LEDs to monitor blood flow and hence pulse. Suffice to say that during exercise I use a Polar H10 chest strap and sensor paired with a Polar Vantage V heart rate monitor. I monitor in real time then download onto Polar Flow. I also link to a PM5 on a Concept 2 rowing machine that has a buffer to smooth out heart rate, but even then changes in rate are rapid and that causes inaccuracies in most monitors and watches.

Back in the day, my GP who was a runner encouraged me back to running. We both had alarms set to the convention of maximum heart rate relative to age and, we both turned off the alarm when it sounded on a run.