Random Heart Rate Dips on Apple Watch

In looking at your data, I’ve wondered why sometimes it takes multiple readings during a minute and other times it just takes a single reading. Sometimes, it says streaming in both cases.

I had severe preeclampsia, so scary and made me paranoid too. Hope you’re recovering well though and find some peace soon, try to remember you are out of the worst of it!

mine looks just like that how do you read it i have very bad anxiety and panic attacks and this makes it worse how do you read it

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Please let us know what comes out of the monitor!! Hoping it’s just our watches since mine does it too.

I really think Apple should look into this as it seems to be causing a lot of people unwanted anxiety! (Including me)

Thank you. That’s the thing, prior to having my baby I barely looked at my BPMs unless I was working out. Not sure how long this has been happening for but I am more aware of it now because I had preeclampsia that got my son out via emergency C-section 2 months ago. My blood pressure was wonky until almost 3 weeks ago and that’s when I noticed my heart rate being “weird” as well. I pray it’s a lm annoying bug for the watch. We shall see next week with the cardiologist!

When this happens to mine, it shows it as reading as an ECG instead of streaming/walking etc when I check all data even though I have not started an ecg. I think this has something to do with the sudden dip and it seems like it is an issue with the watch

I had the exact issue of random dipping and it happens a lot of time. No symptoms so ignored it. I am not an athlete for sure to have such low HR while awake. My sleeping is lowest 50 and awake could be like 60s i guess.

Hi, any update? I am postpartum as well with the random dips. Just curious what you found out. I'm not having weird symptoms, I've just noticed it on my watch. I went from 80s to 50s back to 70s-80s today. I looked back and it has been happening randomly.

There is really nothing for them to look at. What some people here are experiencing are call outliers.

>>An outlier is a single data point that goes far outside the average value of a group of statistics. Outliers may be exceptions that stand outside individual samples of populations as well. In a more general context, an outlier is an individual that is markedly different from the norm in some respect.<<

In some individuals an outlier is a valid data point that is an indicator to a potentially serious issue and needs further discussion and analysis. It’s easy to design a filter to remove outliers but wouldn’t that underserve the individuals that need to be warned about a potential issue?

I think people that wear medical devices and general health indicators should seek the services of medical professionals and not rely exclusively on internet discussion forums. 😀😀

If you had the 10 minute warning from your watch it seems like you are experiencing brachycardia rather than a watch fault or random dip. I would contact your healthcare provider / GP to discuss and have a heart monitor fitted

hi, did you figure out what caused this ? i am also postpartum and see similar heart rate ranges and random dips. I am not athletic and did not work out through my pregnancy. curious what came out of your cardiology appointment

This thread has 4 pages of posts. The explanation is already provided. Did you read through any of the posts? I’m happy to provide my explanation again.

>>There is really nothing for them to look at. What some people here are experiencing are call outliers.

>>An outlier is a single data point that goes far outside the average value of a group of statistics. Outliers may be exceptions that stand outside individual samples of populations as well. In a more general context, an outlier is an individual that is markedly different from the norm in some respect.<<

In some individuals an outlier is a valid data point that is an indicator to a potentially serious issue and needs further discussion and analysis. It’s easy to design a filter to remove outliers but wouldn’t that underserve the individuals that need to be warned about a potential issue?

I think people that wear medical devices and general health indicators should seek the services of medical professionals and not rely exclusively on internet discussion forums. 😄 😄 <<