Sparkling_Fairy
21-09-23, 00:10
Has anyone else had this?
I just bought a new smart watch. And it came with the Google fit app. It had an option to measure my respiratory rate and having no idea what it was, I tried it. It said I had a respiratory rate of 6. The normal range for an adult is 12 - 20!
So I googled how to measure it myself. And again I came out at 6! I then watched a YouTube video of how to do it, and the guy was breathing so much faster than me! And he had 20.
But even if I try actively to breathe faster, the most I can get to is 10.
I don't know if it's a side effect of my Propranolol (although I don't see it listed anywhere) or if I've just trained myself to slow my breathing down so much over the years to calm my anxiety that I now naturally breathe slower.
But I'm kinda freaking out about it. 6 seems really low
I just bought a new smart watch. And it came with the Google fit app. It had an option to measure my respiratory rate and having no idea what it was, I tried it. It said I had a respiratory rate of 6. The normal range for an adult is 12 - 20!
So I googled how to measure it myself. And again I came out at 6! I then watched a YouTube video of how to do it, and the guy was breathing so much faster than me! And he had 20.
But even if I try actively to breathe faster, the most I can get to is 10.
I don't know if it's a side effect of my Propranolol (although I don't see it listed anywhere) or if I've just trained myself to slow my breathing down so much over the years to calm my anxiety that I now naturally breathe slower.
But I'm kinda freaking out about it. 6 seems really low