Why is my resting heart rate so much higher than average?!
Question: A few times in the last few months I have been told my heart rate is very high (I'm pregnant so when they do my BP they get a heart rate reading)
Nobody has been worried particularly (it is often around or over 100 bpm instead of 70 ish) They often put it down to nerves at appointments.
Could there be another reason?
Answers: A few times in the last few months I have been told my heart rate is very high (I'm pregnant so when they do my BP they get a heart rate reading)
Nobody has been worried particularly (it is often around or over 100 bpm instead of 70 ish) They often put it down to nerves at appointments.
Could there be another reason?
yep deffo nerves called white coat syndrome, i had it in both my pregnancies, it horrible, i would hype myself up to a mess, and when they got the blood pressure monitor out that was it, i'd be all over the place, my heart rate would shoot up and my bp would rocket, but if i had it taken at home it would be much better, but still raised, as it is called white coat syndrome, they told me to buy a bp monitor (which also takes your heart rate to) and i found it much easier to handle with me doing it myself, and i would do it 3 times, instead of the midwives taking it just the once! and i got my bp to the norm and my heart rate ranged around 80 beats.
and remember u are carrying a baby to so that will naturally increase ur heart rate up as ur heart enlarges and increases due to added work it has to do and the extra blood it has to handle.
hope i made you feel better, i would try not to worry to much, loads of peeps get like this, im deffo one of them!.
Have your thyroid checked... my brother's heart rate was really fast when they diagnosed him.
How pregnant are you ? heart rate may be up because you are lugging a lot of extra weight around with you, also you may not be as fit as you could be, this will lead to a higher than average resting pulse.
Don't forget that a resting pulse is only resting after you have been inactive for a while, this time increases with lack of fitness.
You may have been rushing around before your appointment.
Take your own pulse rate BEFORE you rise from sleep in the morning.
Please dont worry about it its a little fast but not unusual,,
It may just be nerves at appointments etc,,
Try to relax a little more,,
It would also depend on your personal fitness level and body mass and so on..
Try checking your pulse rate when relaxed at home..
Good luck and best wishes..
i dont know if 'averages' are any good to measure by. My resting rate is low 60s and yet Im very unfit and overweight, therefore, its supposed to be higher, like in the 80s or something, so unless you're told otherwise, dont worry
Well I recon your body is working overtime on a marvellous project at this time.
Take plenty of rest,
drink your milk and
enjoy what is happening to you.