pulse checking

[mirelle]

Hi

I'm new to the forum and I have suffered health anxiety for about 4yrs now I do now feel after a long hard struggle I'm now beginning to deal with my symtoms but the thing i'm finding hardest to deal with is the fact i constantly check my pulse i like to make sure i have correct beats per minute and if i do find myself panicking i check my pulse and when i find my heart rates faster i panick even more.

Does anyone else do this or am i just obsessed this just drives me crazy

Any advise would be warmly welcome thankyou

mirelle

[nomorepanic]

Loads of posts on this.

It will however do you no good as the pulse changes every minute of the day so there is no point getting obsessed over it.

Read these

fast pulse

Pulse Rate

CONSTANT CHECKING

Pulse Rate

Slow pulse


Nicola

[Two heads]

Hi mirelle!
I did this alot a few months back when my anxiety frist started.If you are hard on yourself you can stop this hun.Everytime you feel like checking your pulse try to do something to take your mind off it,even if its just truning the tele over!The more you do it the worse it gets hun.xxxxxxxxx

[mirelle]

Thanks for the advise i will try and focus on something else rather than check my pulse it will be hard i know but life with anxiety seems to be one long hard struggle.



mirelle

[Jo3016]

Hi

I do this a lot too. I am not so bad at the moment but at times, I become obsessed with it. I especially check it if I get anxious and so, obviously, it is fast. Then I get into a cycle where I keep checking it and worrying that it is too fast! It is definitely one of my worst symptoms of anxiety.

Jo Fitzgerald

[tgow]

Yes that's one of the things I used to do all the time and I still do it when I worry. I know it will be normal and the doctors have assured me I'm as healthy as an Ox but it's just a nervous habit that stuck from when I first got my anxiety problems [:O][Oops!]

[Phill2]

You're not alone.As soon as I feel a bit off I check my pulse and reach for the blood pressure monitor. Funny thing is they're always normal and I'm not doing it anywhere as much as before
Phill

Don't believe everything you think.

[lizmarshall]

i used to do this all the time and then i bought a wrist BP machine which also tells you what your pulse rate is, must admit havent used it for a while as i tried to break the habbit.

Liz

[jackie]

oh yes i do this even on my better days, just a hard habit to break i guess

jackie

[lin]

Hi Mirelle

I can relate to this i used to check my pulse all the time even when i was out it's just something i had to do. My anxiety was bad at the time and i think thats why i used to do it.

linda xx