Hi all. I’m just wondering if those of you with anxiety have a rapid heart beat for no real reason. I won’t feel anxious, but I often check on my heart and it will be beating very fast. I measure it myself and it’s probably around 100+ bpm when this happens. I stop in the middle of measuring and try to multiply because it gets very high & I start to scare myself. I had to stop wearing my watch because I would constantly be checking my heart rate and would freak out if it was over like 85 bpm resting.
Most of my anxiety is about my health so this is starting to freak me out about since it happens for seemingly no reason... Just looking for other people’s reassurance and maybe some advice on how to make it stop. Thanks in advance
I get a much higher heart rate than you. Many things can change it. Anxiety is one but it also changes when blood flow is redirected to digest food. Body temperature can affect it too. Many different completely normal body functions can raise it.
85 at resting? Like you measured right after you woke up? Because that's your resting rate. When you're anxious your heart rate is higher. When I was extremely anxious, mine was in the high 80s early 90s. It's normal. Checking or thinking about your heart rate, makes it automatically go up. Not checking it, thinking about it or worrying the best cure for a high heart rate that's caused by anxiety.
Interesting I didn’t know that about digesting food. Something to think about. Just hard for me to rationalize sometimes since my anxiety is all based around worrying about my health.
Oh no not after I wake up. I meant just when I’m laying around in bed not doing anything. But thank you I try not to very often but whenever I do it just seems much too fast and freaks me out thanks for your response x
That's not your resting rate. Take it right after waking up, without getting up, without moving that much, feel your pulse for 10 seconds and multiply it by 6. That's your resting heart rate. After all, you are resting. While awake, you're not really resting. You're thinking, you're moving your body, you're digesting food, your whole body is working. That's what I know about resting heart rate.