Sleep Heart Rate - Anxiety ?

Hi

For a number of years I occasionally wake up in the middle of the night feeling very odd, other than a spike in my heart rate and feeling fuzzy myself I have yet to understand what's causing it

Am a recent late diagnosed adult,  my doctors may loan me an overnight heart monitor, as my watch shows real jumps in my sleeping heart rate with low Heart Rate Variation (HRV) which now I'm going to record each day

The problem I see with having just a 24 hr monitor from the docs, is I don't wake up mid-sleep every night and can go months between episodes, and then have a run of them.

My therapist has suggested my anxiety could be a factor - so asking if any of you also notice anything similar ?

Using ChatGPT this morning it, one thing that came up was Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Dysregulation - is this familiar to any of you ?

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  • It could be so many things, a dream that stimulates you, hormones, sorry I don't know your age or gender, so could it be menopause related? COuld you be to hot or to cold? There are so many things that could be causing it, or a mixture of different things. It might even be perfectly normal!

    I'd stay away from the internet or AI for things like this, I think, like reading a medical encyclopedia you could scare yourself half to death because your symptoms could be due to so many things.

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  • It could be so many things, a dream that stimulates you, hormones, sorry I don't know your age or gender, so could it be menopause related? COuld you be to hot or to cold? There are so many things that could be causing it, or a mixture of different things. It might even be perfectly normal!

    I'd stay away from the internet or AI for things like this, I think, like reading a medical encyclopedia you could scare yourself half to death because your symptoms could be due to so many things.

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