fairyloveheart
10-04-14, 09:34
I have just come out of a three month period of anxiety about my neck, which is now improving but I seem to now be going headlong into another period of worry.
With my neck problems I started to think about my overall fitness levels and weight and physio recommended I really took up some exercise seeing as I don't do any. I thought about it and decided that yes, now is the time to try and make myself healthy and do something positive.
I went to the gp about something else and she happened to take my pulse which appears to be 90 BPM at rest. This has now set me into a total panic. Everyone I mention this to says how high it is, the doctor said it was higher than she would expect for someone of my age etc so now I am in a panic about it.
I decided to start with some fitness routines at home, so got a book on pilates and it has a cardio and stretching workout for 20 minutes, so I thought I would start with this however I am now really worried about my heart going too fast.
I did the workout for the first time last night, but it seemed to take me a long time to recover afterwards and I could feel my heart pulsing through me. Then this morning I have had a small amount of pain in my left side of my chest. I now keep thinking I'm struggling to breathe but I am now unsure what is me worrying and what is real.
I appreciate that I haven't done any proper cardio for exercise for 20 years probably.
I am just so worried now that whilst I begin to do some exercise, I'm going to pass out and my heart will explode.
I don't know whether my pulse rate has got faster in recent years or what it has always been. My blood pressure is fine. I am 5ft 10 and weigh 71kg so my BMI is in the ok range I think, but I am just very unfit.
I want to carry on and try and get fit but I am just worried I will die doing so, does that sound irrational?????
Help :(
With my neck problems I started to think about my overall fitness levels and weight and physio recommended I really took up some exercise seeing as I don't do any. I thought about it and decided that yes, now is the time to try and make myself healthy and do something positive.
I went to the gp about something else and she happened to take my pulse which appears to be 90 BPM at rest. This has now set me into a total panic. Everyone I mention this to says how high it is, the doctor said it was higher than she would expect for someone of my age etc so now I am in a panic about it.
I decided to start with some fitness routines at home, so got a book on pilates and it has a cardio and stretching workout for 20 minutes, so I thought I would start with this however I am now really worried about my heart going too fast.
I did the workout for the first time last night, but it seemed to take me a long time to recover afterwards and I could feel my heart pulsing through me. Then this morning I have had a small amount of pain in my left side of my chest. I now keep thinking I'm struggling to breathe but I am now unsure what is me worrying and what is real.
I appreciate that I haven't done any proper cardio for exercise for 20 years probably.
I am just so worried now that whilst I begin to do some exercise, I'm going to pass out and my heart will explode.
I don't know whether my pulse rate has got faster in recent years or what it has always been. My blood pressure is fine. I am 5ft 10 and weigh 71kg so my BMI is in the ok range I think, but I am just very unfit.
I want to carry on and try and get fit but I am just worried I will die doing so, does that sound irrational?????
Help :(