Re: Anxiety with a slow heart rate
Originally Posted by
Perpetual
My resting heart rate is around 62bpm. This is regarded as having healthy heart,
While a resting heart rate of 60-100 bpm has traditionally been thought to be normal for adults a growing number of studies are indicating this is too high and many cardiologists now believe the standard should be revised to 50-75 bpm.
even though I feel the opposite (tired, weak, pain in legs, headache).
These are unlikely to be because your heart rate is around 58-63 bpm. Headache is more likely to be due to high blood pressure than heart rate. The resting heart rate is not necessarily a guide to BP. Discontinuing the sertraline (Zoloft) may have caused an increase in your BP. SSRIs and other serotonergic ADs may lower BP a little by dilating blood vessels (although they can have the opposite effect too) and also through their anticoagulant properties.
As soon as I saw that (I have a fitbit) I got numerous weird feelings: dizziness, warm feeling through my body, and lightheadedness.
Which are all typical anxiety symptoms.
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