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Autism and heart rates

JD-on-sea

Does anyone have a raised heart rate or trouble sleeping (and realising their heart is racing) that isn’t related to another heart or medical condition?

I’ve started wearing a sports watch to monitor my heart rate and sleep patterns as I’m tired all the time (which I put down to exhaustion due to masking) and felt like my heart was racing a lot of the time when I had challenging days at work. There’s nothing wrong with me physically in this area, but it’s been fascinating to have a message on my watch say that I’ve had a really stressful day when I’ve just been sitting at my desk. But it was correct because I’d been masking all day and felt worn out. It’s also corroborated what I’ve been saying about not getting good quality sleep and then still feeling tired the next day.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar (with or without technology to back you up)?

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  • JD-on-sea said:
    Does anyone have a raised heart rate

    I've always had a heart rate higher than normal - resting is about 70 bpm and when working out on a mild cardio exercise (crosstrainer on a low/mid level) it will be around 130 bpm but I am not breathing heavily or straining - and can do this for an hour with barely breaking a sweat.

    My wife is a bit fitter than me and her heart rate is about 20 bpm lower in both cases.

    My heart is otherwise very healthy but does seem to run faster than normal people.

    If you do have a lot of anxiety and/or stress then the chances are that this is impacting your heart too. I had 4 decades of this sort of exposure so it could be a long term effect. As it never caused me issues I've never had the doc consider it worth investigating.

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  • JD-on-sea said:
    Does anyone have a raised heart rate

    I've always had a heart rate higher than normal - resting is about 70 bpm and when working out on a mild cardio exercise (crosstrainer on a low/mid level) it will be around 130 bpm but I am not breathing heavily or straining - and can do this for an hour with barely breaking a sweat.

    My wife is a bit fitter than me and her heart rate is about 20 bpm lower in both cases.

    My heart is otherwise very healthy but does seem to run faster than normal people.

    If you do have a lot of anxiety and/or stress then the chances are that this is impacting your heart too. I had 4 decades of this sort of exposure so it could be a long term effect. As it never caused me issues I've never had the doc consider it worth investigating.

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