Heart Rate Vulnerabilities
Users discuss risks to pacemakers, fitness trackers, and wearables from potential heart rate manipulation or signals, sharing personal stories of heart conditions, arrhythmias, heart attacks, and device-detected anomalies.
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What heart rate makes me most vulnerable?
Off-topic, but interesting to see my former heart condition randomly linked on HN!
Couldn't this affect pacemakers, etc?
Just hope it's not a pacemaker
Careful, or they might eventually become a human heart attack!
Not according to my cardiologist :-/
My Fitbit record showing heart rate spikes to 125 was one of the things that I noticed that suggested I was having a heart attack in 2020 (I was).
I had a very similar experience. I did measure my heart rate previously though, and the high resting heart rate notifications were new.I was very worried at first because one of my personally prioritized indicators of fitness was how quickly I could go from say, zone 3 to 50bpm. This was quite low, then suddenly I was having 70-90bpm around 30m after exercising.Yet it gradually went away and I never actually experienced discomfort or anything like it. I haven’t seen a high restating rate i
FWIW, I also have a heart condition, and experienced no issues.Obviously I can't give you medical advice, but figure it's worth noting that it's not a guaranteed experience. ;P
Surely more than 1 condition can cause heart rate changes? Is there a pattern they can match, or is it the most likely cause?