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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    I would like to gently remind you of Community Rule 6: No medical or legal advice. Do not offer medical or legal advice. Always seek professional help for these matters. Treat any medical or legal information shared as the opinion of the user who posted it and meant for general discussion purposes only. 

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