Average heart rate, strange sudden leaps of heart rate, and restlessness all night

[CheerfulBird]

I’ve been wearing my fitbit for over a year. I mainly bought it because I always wake up feeling like I haven’t hardly slept. Also, my heart races sometimes for no apparent reason.

Anyway, I was curious to see if anyone else has had the same recordings as me. On average, it shows I am awake, tossing and turning for an hour a night. Also, my heart rate averages 12 hours in the “burn zone”. Last night I was sitting at the table, cutting some paper and I happened to look at my fitbit and it said my heart rate was 105! Is this normal?  Once in a while it jumps up to 175 suddenly for about 30 seconds then goes back down to 90. My average resting rate is 80.

At my job, I work 6-7 days a week, for 2-4 hours, walking, stocking, climbing ladders up and down, etc. During that time, my heart rate usually gets up to 120. The rest of the day, while I’m at home, doing housework or sewing or some other project, it ranges from 78-112. 
I’m 40 years old, female. I’m going to include the screenshots. 

  

 

[Heybales]

No it is not normal.

Then again did you manually take your pulse to confirm these figures at the moment?

The device method of reading HR is not always valid for everyone, nor possibly 100% of the time.

So it could be none of those readings are valid, or you find by manually taking pulse it's untrustworthy which means you need to throw out the data and not base anything on it.

Are you taking meds that has possible side effect of increasing HR?

That would be other factor.

If manual reading shows same high HR - call up Dr and ask nurse if you need to get in.

Sleeping elevated might be normal during lively dream, or when the alarm clock freaks you in morning going off.

[CheerfulBird]

Manual heart rate is the same. No meds. I suppose I will be making an appointment...

[CheerfulBird]

• By the way, what does “normal” look like?  I’m still curious how others’ heart rate  throughout the day looks. 

[Equart]

I'm not sure that this quite fits your situation, but posting in case it helps you or others. For many people, an increased HR when standing is related to orthostatic intolerance, and in some cases, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia (POTS). A simple way to see if this is you to is to take your resting HR (sitting down) and then stand for ~5-10 minutes. If you HR increases by >30 BPM in that timeframe, that's POTS. You can read more about this on the Dysautonomia International website. https://dysautonomiainternational.org/page.php?ID=30 

[Kligan]

What an interesting situation. I noticed similar pressure surges, but mostly it fell.

[BraveJan]

This question doesn't bother me for a month.

[BraveJan]

  I'm sure the tablets have completed their task. I also have pressure surges when I'm in pain. I was visiting my mother-in-law, and for the whole two weeks of my stay there, I suffered from heartburn. I couldn't understand the matter because there were no exotic products and dishes on the table. When something hurts, my pulse goes up to 170. My wife signed me up for a food intolerance test. Indeed, it turned out that the mother-in-law uses a spice when cooking, which I can't stand! For 35 years of my life, I had no idea about this!

[Ajette5150]

My sitting heart rate is about 65.  Please get checked.  If your heart races like that it's not normal.