Re: Fast heart rate at rest. Scared.
Hi Mark,
Obesity means a faster heart rate, add anxiety into this and it will go higher still.
Losing weight will lower your heart rate, as will addressing your anxiety. I'd advise you to stop checking your pulse (It's making matters worse) and to concentrate on breathing deeply.
If there were any issues with your heart, the 24-hour monitor would have picked something up. (It didn't, so that's good news)
The heart is designed to beat fast (fight or flight/exercise) it just feels strange when it beats fast and we're not doing anything physically. Mentally though, we are triggering the stress response - which means that the heart will beat faster because it is responding to the brain which thinks you are in danger because you are panicking..
So basically, you can expect a higher-than-normal resting heart rate due to your weight and your anxiety is pushing it up some more. (I weighed 8 stone when my anxiety was bad, and my heart rate was often in the 90s at rest) I was able to push this well over a hundred just by looking at the monitor on my FitBit.
Hope this helps..
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