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Sleep Heart Rate - Anxiety ?

Jalapeno

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 ?

Parents

  • 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.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Hi TheCatWomen, 50s and male

    It could be something minor triggering it...I know I have some allergies and even wondered if it happened after certain foods or even alcohol, hence why am just going to do my own log to see if there's any pattern whilst seeing what the doc says

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  • in reply to Jalapeno

    Oh well that rules out menopause then, lol. It could be a reaction to certain foods or alcohol, I think allergies are an often overlooked cause of many problems, although unless you have a histamine response then it won't be rated as an allergy, but down graded to a food intolerance. I say down graded as having quite a few of them myself, I kno what its like trying to get anyoone to take them seriously, people seem to think that an intollerance is somehow voluntary, but thats really no help at all when you've got real adverse effects. Good luck with keeping a food diary, it can be a pain in the bum though, as you need to think about everything contained in everything you eat.