Brittany
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I'm looking for some advice. This has become incredibly troublesome to me now.
A little background on me is that I'm 19, female, majority sedentary, but eat quite healthy, weigh 55kg at 172cm tall and would love to exercise every day, but I am too scared to do so out of fear of my heart.
I am aware that I have severe anxiety when it comes to my heart. That is the first compromising factor to any form of rationalization I'd have over this. I spend much of my day wondering if I'm breathing right, wondering if my heart rate is right. To give you a concept, I would even have spasms in the muscle in my neck. I found this was because I kept sticking my thumb into my neck to feel my heart rate.
Often during the day, my heart rate is at 95bpm. Then, even though I am still anxious, it will drop to somewhere around 65bpm. I'm often breathless, and check my heart rate to see if there's any change. Sometimes it has changed, other times it hasn't. During rest, or relief of muscle tension, with the use of a bath for example, the heart rate is normally low for a period of time after. This is troublesome to me, and causes me a lot of fear, tension, breathlessness. I also seem to have an issue with dizziness, all day, and every day, which is exacerbated by movement of my head and refocusing on different things.
My other issue is at night. When I lay down, my heart rate normally rests just over 60. But I seem to have a problem with my heart rate settling low and hard. When I go to sleep, sometimes I am awakened by my heart. Yesterday, for example, my heart was beating slowly and I felt a pressure throughout my body. A couple of weeks ago, I was dreaming, something bad happened during the dream, I then suddenly awoke to (albeit no anxiety, just the after effects of feeling shocked) my heart beat slow, very hard, and causing discomfort / pain as it beat.
I have had tests in the past. 3 day Holter 2 years ago, blood checks as little as a month ago, quite a number of ECGs which showed complete regularity with occasional benign PVCs, etc.
I'm not sure what to say here. I want to pass control to my heart over this but it's certainly in my head. The main cause of 'doubt' for me is quite simply suddenly waking up from otherwise normal conditions and having my heart beat slow and hard.
If you could give me some advice, I would be incredibly appreciative.
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