Fast pulse

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Went a week late for depot. They were doing height/weight/and blood pressure and pulse.
Blood pressure was 128/82 which I guess is ok for a 57 year old but pulse was 106.
They commented on that saying it was fast. I said ‘why’ and they said could be anxiety but at the time I didn’t feel that anxious(I do suffer from chronic anxiety but not 24/7).
I wonder whether anxiety can become such a regular thing that when at a milder level you don’t even register that you’re anxious. It’s just how you are.

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My pulse runs at 120-125. Probably from my meds.

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It is scary to know at how fast the heat beat, maybe because I have watched too much of horror movies.
Is pulse rate and blood pressure related to each other?

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Not usually. If either are out of whack, there are respective solutions for whatever is wrong.

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Ohh. We did vital signs in my nursing course. The factors that influence your pulse rate are:

  • exercise - short term it increases, but it gets conditioned with long term exercise to be lower
  • temperature - fever and heat increase it, hypothermia decreases it
  • emotions - pain and anxiety increase it (symp. nervous stimulation), relaxation and unrelieved severe pain decrease it (parasyp. sys.)
  • drugs - epinephrine and some street drugs increase your pulse rate, other decrease it
  • bleeding increases pulse rate
  • standing or sitting increases pulse rate
  • pulmonary conditions - poor oxygenation like asthma or COPD
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Thank you for sharing this. So I think our pulse rate is the lowest if laying on bed, right?

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Yes, your pulse is lower while laying down and relaxed.

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my heart rate/pulse goes up at doctors etc…it is normal
muggles get anxiety…etc
our blood pressure goes up and down all the time, due to sugar , food, weather conditions, stress…again it is normal.
you’'ll be fine, try not to think about it.
take care

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