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Posted 12/2/2014 4:04 PM (GMT -5)
I've been trying to calm down, but I was dozing in a nd out of a very uncomfortable sleep because my heart rate is up around 105. It's really scaring me. Shouldn't it be much lower while I'm lying in bed and was napping?
Posted 12/2/2014 4:12 PM (GMT -5)
I wish I could help you out here park, but I don't know anything about heart rate. I know I have a night one, and that's about it. Did you have a spike in anxiety and that's why you checked your pulse?
Posted 12/2/2014 4:16 PM (GMT -5)
I am super sensitive to all physical changes in my body, I felt a little bit of anxiety and it was all in my chest. I new my heart had to be racing and Yep, it sure was.
Posted 12/2/2014 4:21 PM (GMT -5)
Park,

Did you actually take a count of your BPM? I sometimes feel like my heart is pounding...but in actuality it's not. This just happened recently...took my pulse, thinking it felt rapid, and it was at 65...?

Had you just eaten? This can affect HR...as well as if you were refluxing, since you were lying down...a possibility.

Trying to ignore and not fixate on this is hard...but it takes just that to see your pulse drop most of the time!

Thoughts of calm going out your way.

S.C.
Posted 12/2/2014 5:48 PM (GMT -5)
Another thing is to make sure your blood sugar is at a healthy level. My body is super sensitive to,...well, pretty much everything. (I know, I know). For me, when my blood sugar is low, I'm much more reactive to my RHR and every little beat feels amplified.

Also staying properly hydrated is crucial.

For what it's worth, I've spent years and years with a RHR that rarely got below 100. I made myself worse, I believe, by constantly focusing on my heart rate and checking it all the time. That hyper-vigilance just compounds an already-exhausting situation.

Deep breath,...deep breath! :)





M.
Posted 12/2/2014 6:29 PM (GMT -5)
I have the same thing.. You think 105 is high, mine was 150 just waken up.. I was freaking out and went to the ER which everything came back good. But what I have seen doing research a normal resting HR is any where between 60-100.
Posted 12/2/2014 7:07 PM (GMT -5)
Thanks everyone.

Yes Scaredy, I did take it....one too many times actually!!

M, welcome back!! I definitely may have been a little dehydrated. It's just been an anxious kind of day. :-(
Posted 12/2/2014 9:06 PM (GMT -5)
Sometimes I have that too. I feel like my heart is about to beat out of my chest and I'll have a Bpm of like 90. But what it really is, is your body just preparing itself for rest. Just cause we're laying down doesn't mean our bodies are necessarily caught up with us :)
Posted 12/2/2014 9:06 PM (GMT -5)
Yes i've woken up many many times to my heart flying bout out my chest....sometimes it's from a night out drinking (dehydration), sometimes it's what from I ate before bed, sometimes it's a scary dream I had, and other times it's for reasons I still don't know! about a month ago I woke up around 3am to my heart going so fast that I couldn't do anything to stop it and I called 911...they never found anything at the ER but it was very, very scary!!! I'm sure it's just dehydration and anxiety, just keep water next to the bed like I do now! :-) I do find that if i lay there and just relax all my muscles and do deep breathing, that helps
Posted 12/2/2014 9:50 PM (GMT -5)
I believe the normal bpm is 60 to 100 but everyone's different. Also, if your anxiety is high it will increase. Try to calm down and not focus on the bpm. If you keep thinking about it I'm sure it will stay high due to anxiety.

Try deep breaths or maybe some meditation.
Posted 12/2/2014 10:58 PM (GMT -5)
Thanks my friends....I actually tried the only real mindfulness activity that I know that a previous therapist taught me and it went from about 105 to 88, so that relieved me and made me feel more in control. I'm still feeling very wound up right now so I am definitely taking my xanax before bed.
Posted 12/2/2014 11:08 PM (GMT -5)
Oh man! So glad that the mindfulness activity works for you. I bet that gave you peace of mind in seeing that it was likely raised due to anxiety. I have to keep on that too, otherwise my heart rate gets all out of sorts. Hope you get a wonderful night's rest tonight!
Posted 12/2/2014 11:15 PM (GMT -5)
I love/hate the mind/body connection! Ugh!
Posted 12/3/2014 12:29 AM (GMT -5)
That's my daily companion is my fast pulse , not all the time but a lot of the time , sometime I can't go to sleep too because I get too anxious about my heart and it pounds so uncomfortably , there atelier times where I have to take a small dose of a Betablocker at night if it's too bad , but I hate the feeling of my heart pounding but the more I focus on it (that's all the time by the way ) :/
It gets worse . My betablockers help but they don't take my panic attacks away at all .


Merrida you really had a pulse of 100 all the time for years ?
Posted 12/3/2014 11:20 AM (GMT -5)
M.

That must've been so uncomfortable having your heart rate up that high regularly. Mine varies from the mid 70's to the low 100's, but boy when it hits even the mid 90's, I'm well aware!
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