Autism and heart rates

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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  • I've had quite a few ECGs recently for a medical study and my heart rate at rest sits between 60-65bpm, but as soon as I get into bed it's like someone has given me an adrenaline shot and up it goes.

    I probably sleep around 4 hours a night, sometimes it all in one go, other times it's in small chunks.

    I think my brain gives me just enough to scrape through the following day.

    In saying all of this, I am being assessed for ADHD next Friday!

  • I probably sleep around 4 hours a night, sometimes it all in one go, other times it's in small chunks

    How do you function? I’d be a zombie trying to cope with that amount of sleep. 

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