What's your resting heart rate?
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I have some sort of sympathetic nervous system problem. My resting hear rate used to be about 120bpm, before I lost weight. Then it was about 90bpm. Now after I got off caffeine it's about 75bpm. My blood pressure is typically about 120/70 I believe.
I just checked mine and it was 63bpm, which is a little higher than normal. It usually sits between 50 and 60. My blood pressure, on the other hand, is quiet low. It usually sits at 105/70. Sometimes after I get up in the morning it will be sitting at 98/65 but I have never seen it any lower than that.
Now when I get stressed out my pulse and blood pressure will both jump. About three months ago I took it after a particularly bad day and my pulse was parked at 85 with a BP of 130/85. Both of those are very high for me!
Now when I get stressed out my pulse and blood pressure will both jump. About three months ago I took it after a particularly bad day and my pulse was parked at 85 with a BP of 130/85. Both of those are very high for me!
Wow, that's low. I've had 150bpm just from anxiety.
Mine's usually between 70-85, which is pretty average for a woman, and good for a type 1 diabetic. My blood pressure is on the low side; the last time I had it checked it was 103/67, which is what it usually runs for me. This is the biggest reason I am still furious about being prescribed blood pressure medication when I was released from the hospital back in February. The whole time I was in the ICU my BP never rose about 110/70.
Ditto.
I had an actual resting pulse of 45-50 while drinking strong coffee at work a few weeks ago. I felt agitated, giddy, almost hilariously in hysterics, yet my pulse was steady, and if anything very very slow. I'm certain I was in non-contractile ventricular bigeminy (a premature heartbeat arising every second beat which does not cause the heart to pump during this beat) running at an electrical rate of 100 per minute as a result of the coffee, although I never had an ECG to check this.
Just did a check now, laid in bed, and I got about 98...
Nah, those "normal" averages you read are for the whole population, which includes a lot of people with faster rates and a lot else potentially unhealthy as well, who just happen not be ill with anything specific yet.
For my age, my rate is healthy but not majorly better than average. If I exercised regularly, I could probably knock it down to 45-55. A girl I used to know did those insane triathlon things, and she had a rate of around 40 IIRC.
Also, most people checking their own pulse rate overestimate it because they focus on it too much and it ramps up due to anxiety. You gotta zone out, close your eyes and concentrate on relaxing to get your own resting pulse. Don't start counting immediately, let yourself chill for half a minute first. Control your breathing, empty your mind, find your centre, wax on, wax off, be the ball, is that really air you're breathing, all that stuff. Anything that jacks up your concentration will also drive up your pulse rate automatically, including watching a ticking clock to time yourself.
Actually, if you're really good at relaxing, you'll then notice your rate is affected by your breathing - it ramps up as you breathe in, and slows up when you breathe out. The physiogical reason is rather boring, but it happens. I notice that when I'm really relaxed with good breathing control, that my pulse rate is roughly about 50% faster on inspiration than expiration.
Awesome. You should have totally done a trace on yourself.
I'm never having a large Americano at Costa ever again.
I'm never having a large Americano at Costa ever again.
Waiting for an exam result, I recall taking my pulse and finding it north of 100 bpm and regularly irregular (every third beat skipped). Probably some Mobitz Type I heart block action.
Type II with 3:1 conduction, by the sounds of it.I'm never having a large Americano at Costa ever again.
Waiting for an exam result, I recall taking my pulse and finding it north of 100 bpm and regularly irregular (every third beat skipped). Probably some Mobitz Type I heart block action.
Probably not that serious, since I have a normal rhythm the rest of the time. I think that was some weird stress-related exacerbation of something otherwise subclinical/benign.
EKGs were normal when I had them for an unrelated issue previously. Some idiot PCP thought he found a heart murmur and said that it might kill me.
Echos and EKGs negative.
I'm never having a large Americano at Costa ever again.
Waiting for an exam result, I recall taking my pulse and finding it north of 100 bpm and regularly irregular (every third beat skipped). Probably some Mobitz Type I heart block action.
I don't think I've ever gone into a true arrythmia from anxiety, but the way my royal college membership results were released was probably one of the most stressful possible (and I rather suspect, deliberately so) and the adrenaline certainly played havoc with my pulse. First of all, they altered what day & time it was going to be released... twice. Without telling anyone, unless you happened to stumble on the site. Second, they had a hours:minutes:seconds countdown clock running on their results webpage, with the actual results uploaded the moment the clock hit zero. So, after the anxiety of the all unannounced time-changes, you then ended up staring at a countdown clock. To kill a bit of time in the last 30s before the upload, I remember checking my pulse rate - well over 135, and approaching 150 IIRC. I dread to think what it must have spiked to when I scrolled down to check I'd passed, but I'm probably lucky not to have blown a gasket that day.
That's just cruel.
That's just cruel.
And don't forget, this is the Royal College of Psychiatrists we're talking about. It's not as if they're not aware of just how anxiety-provoking such a system is. In fact, the whole rigmarole was conceptually exactly what I would design to provoke a severe stress reaction - major life event with binary outcome, specific precise deadline, randomly alter the deadline unexpectedly and without warning, place a constant reminder of the deadline in a place utterly unavoidable, make the reminder dynamic to ramp up stress further. Conceptually, it's flawless as a stress test, right down the the momentary 404 that occurs in the second or two between the countdown clock ending and the new results page being uploaded, to induce a spasm of terror at the possibility of a loss of connection.
I don't know if they're made the process less stressful since I passed, but I doubt it. They've probably found a new torture technique.
That's just cruel.
And don't forget, this is the Royal College of Psychiatrists we're talking about. It's not as if they're not aware of just how anxiety-provoking such a system is. In fact, the whole rigmarole was conceptually exactly what I would design to provoke a severe stress reaction - major life event with binary outcome, specific precise deadline, randomly alter the deadline unexpectedly and without warning, place a constant reminder of the deadline in a place utterly unavoidable, make the reminder dynamic to ramp up stress further. Conceptually, it's flawless as a stress test, right down the the momentary 404 that occurs in the second or two between the countdown clock ending and the new results page being uploaded, to induce a spasm of terror at the possibility of a loss of connection.
Sure it wasn't really a psychological experiment? Some kind of Milgram-esque study for stress?
You do have to admire the masterful design of the experience, though.
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60 or about once per second.
Looks like I need a little more "stride" in my daily walks and a little less "mosey".
Looks like I need a little more "stride" in my daily walks and a little less "mosey".
58 BPM.
That's normal for me.
I've always suspected the breathing synchronized oscillation was a bad thing, but you're saying it just means that I'm normally relaxed? Which is a good thing?
The medical term is respiratory sinus arrhythmia, all to do with parasympathetic stimulation via the vagus nerve (cranial nerve X, which monitors the heart and lung rates plus other viscera) at its brainstem nucleus during expiration, slowing the heart rate down. It's perfectly normal.
That's normal for me.
It also explains why some anticholinergic drugs cause a high heart rate, e.g. IV atropine given during asystolic cardiac arrest.
Current resting heart rate = 56. No caffeine.
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