I posted a few days ago about a door-ing accident I had. I was curious to look over how fast I was going at time of impact and noticed my heart rate data dropped out.
The heart rate data drop seems to coincide with a period of time that I have no recollection of. Basically, I saw the door open and then I was pushing my bike to the curb.
I’m looking to Reddit for some possible explanations. My best guess is the watch was jostled during the impact? Or I did I briefly die?
by Smooth_Awareness_815
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The most reasonable explanation would be the watch getting knocked around pretty good and losing data for a few moments.
The cooler story by a MILE though is that you died for a little bit 🤷♂️
Assuming that speed is blue and on the left axis, and heart rate is in red and on the right axis, it dropped to a perfectly reasonable 60 BPM.
That graph doesn’t even have 0 as the bottom for heart rate, so no you didn’t “briefly die” in any way.
Notice the axis labels. The bottom isn’t zero, it’s just sub sixty. Maybe 55. So it looks like, possibly, some minor shock or your monitor just freaked out from the impact.
Please tell me you were seen by a medical professional.
Not for what it’s likely a recording error, but for the gap in memory.
If not, please do so or at the very, very least do not be alone, have someone monitoring you for the next 48 hours minimum.
You got your bell rung, i would say adrenaline and shock.
No, it looks like your heart rate sensor couldn’t get a good lock from 22:01 until 22:07. That 60 -> 110bpm rise is not natural, that’s the device going from guessing at your HR to getting a positive lock on actual bpm. It was either not on your skin at all and measuring air incorrectly, or taking intermittently successful readings and guessing.