I have a question. I have a previoius
post here that explains my anxiety
symptoms. Its happened 2 times already
where I wake up in the middle of the night
& I feel like I cant catch my breath.
Im sleeping so how can I be having
shortnes of breath? I took my pulse and
its always in the low 60's (61, 63, even
once I think 58) im thin and only 5'1
& 22y/o. Im constantly checking my
pulse to see what it is? Ive already had
an ekg about 4 month ago and it was
normal. The doctor listened to my heart
about 2 weeka after that for about 2
minutes and said it was fine. She made me
take deep breaths, cough, etc. Went to
the emergency room back in march because I
had tingling in my arms and thought it had
to do with my heart. The doctor listened
to my heart and said it was fine. I have
no chest pain. I just got over thinking I
had multiple sclerosis and I promised
myself not to be diagnosing myself
anymore. How can I get these negative
thoughts out of my head? And is that
heart rate too low? My mom teels me that
im not going to be satisfied until the
doctrs tell me that something is wrong
with me, and then she says im just going
to wait and die. How can I get these
thoughts out of my head?
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xxzoe18xx
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Scotland
Posted: 05-24-06 17:29pm
Getting negative thoughts out your head
can be difficult. I get them still from
time to time, but tell your self this.
Tell your self that it is just anxiety and
nothing will happen to you. If you really
can't get the thoughts out your head tell
your self that if you are ill then why do
you only get pains and other symtoms when
you think about them? When you stop
obbsessing about them they go away. When
you get a pain or feeling read a book, go
for a run, do somthing to take your mind
off it. And say to your self "yeh i'm
really gonna die! Woah i'm so scared" and
it's like your mocking your anxiety and it
will ease it. Sounds a bit sill, but try
it.
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 05-24-06 19:06pm
It is nt to low a pulse! The average
health pulse is between 50 and 70. When
you are sleeping it gets lower still.
Some spots people have pulse rates at
30bpm. If you are really concerned get a
holter monitor put on for 24 hours and
this will record your reading while
sleeping.
I had one and my heart rate was 43bpm at
one stage not all the time but at my
deepest sleep point for around 2
minutes.
A low heart rate is good - if you don't
get effected by its lowness, dizzy,
passing out etc. It means that your
heart only works half as hard as everyone
elses and should last twice as long I
say!!
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WISHING*
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 20
Posted: 05-25-06 13:56pm
Yo know I do get lightheaded a lot, but
the doctor told me the reason why it was
because anxiety. The past 2 weeks I had
been feeling fine but then I got this
thing where I felt I had shortness of
breath in the middle of the night and know
I feel like the lightheadedness came back.
I dont know if it came back because im
worrying about my hear or im lightheaded
because something is wrong with my heart.
Also, I dont work out. I just happen to
be thin by luck. I know athletes have a
low rate but im no athlete. & when
try to do jumping jack I feel light
headed. I dont know if its in my head
though. So im scared to work out because
I think right away that im going to get
lightheaded :( I just think that a rate of
60, 61 is too low? It used to average
about 75 before. Should I be worried? I
have a doctors appt. On tuesday. I just
know shes goung to brush it off as
anxiety. I just cant seem to trust
doctors. Should I just accept the fact
that its anxiety?
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mitch7654
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 170
Posted: 05-25-06 14:42pm
My heart rate during the day is usulay 66
to 78 if I chilling when im out doing
thing it can climb to like 80 85 but thats
moving aorund getting in out of cars doig
watever. Sometimes when nervous and
chillin it goes up to 80 -85 butmost of
the time like I said its 66 to 79 .At
night my heart rate dropes to 55 to 61.
