#but sometimes it's hard to tell a standing bpm in the 130s from the 150s before hitting the fall down point | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

tj-crochets · 1 year ago

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Hey y'all! Weird question time again! Do you have any recommendations for anything that can monitor your heart rate on the go with like real time updates? I'm looking for something like a pulse oximeter, but that works for people with poor circulation in their fingers (I have a pulse oximeter and sometimes it works and sometimes I confuse it and it panics and spits out random numbers lol) I do have a blood pressure cuff, but I'm looking for something that works faster and while moving, so that I can keep an eye on it when I'm doing things like exercising or climbing stairs (on bad days) so I know when I need to stop before I hit the "uh-oh" level of tachycardia.

#the person behind the yarn #tj asks weird questions #medical mention #on bad POTS days it can help when I'm just doing things around the house #like...130 bpm after climbing the stairs isn't great but I can ignore it #150 bpm after slowly climbing the stairs I need to sit down for a bit and let it crash back down #before it crashes back down while I'm standing and takes my blood pressure with it #that's not quite an accurate summation of what happens if I keep standing when my 'just standing in place' bpm is in the 150s #but idk how to describe it except 'feels like bad' and 'might fall down'#but sometimes it's hard to tell a standing bpm in the 130s from the 150s before hitting the fall down point #for the record 160s bpm just standing is 'sit down right the hell now. right where I am. do not walk to a chair do not collect go sit down'#where those categories fall numbers-wise varies from person to person I'm sure #but that's pretty much where it breaks for me

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