jarno1973
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Like most people I had a high heart rate after surgery. After my second surgery initially it seemed like my rest heart rate had remained normal and was quickly in the 60's. After a few weeks however that suddenly changed and my heart rate was a lot higher. This was reason for worries and it took quite a while before my resting rate became lower than 70. All the time i have been waiting for my heart rate to get lower and back to pre-surgery levels. Since a week or so my resting heart rate has fairly suddenly dropped quite a bit and I am not sure if I should be happy with it. Normally low heart rate is associated with being in good condition and often sportsmen have low heart rates. I have been exercising frequently for the last months. Most weeks I try to run 3 times a week. I run 4 km and am trying to improve my time while keeping my heart rate under control (as suggested by the doctor). Impatient as I am I have also been pushing the heart rate a little bit in order to improve my time. I figured; a few months have again passed and I should be able to get the heart rate up a bit more.
As said; my resting heart rate is quite low now but I am not sure if should be happy or worried about it. It made a drop quite suddenly and now is in the 50's almost all the time. Lowest I have seen it was 50 when I was lying very quietly on bed. When I walk or do something it goes up but whenever I sit down again it seems to come back to the low rate very quickly. I know there are lots of people with a heart rate in the 50's but I don't think mine was ever this low before surgery (I just looked at my medical examinations from when my heart was still ok and the rate during blood pressure testing in the hospital has been between 59 and 68). Besides this the drop comes after I upped my exercise a bit and pushed the maximum heart rate during my runs to around 150-155 average and had peaks of up to 170 bpm.
I am a week away from my 6 monthly check up where an echo and X-ray will be made. I haven't been feeling too great the last weeks and am now worried that my heart rate is getting too low and wonder if I have been pushing too hard with exercising.
Part of the worries come from being nervous about my check-up as the last time around this was the point where I found out I had to have my second OHS. I am scared to have to undergo the echo and hear the technician saying things again like "hmm ..that is not good/normal". Every single echo I had so far in my life has been bad news.
Well, back to the topic...What do you think about my heart rate??
Regards,
Jarno
As said; my resting heart rate is quite low now but I am not sure if should be happy or worried about it. It made a drop quite suddenly and now is in the 50's almost all the time. Lowest I have seen it was 50 when I was lying very quietly on bed. When I walk or do something it goes up but whenever I sit down again it seems to come back to the low rate very quickly. I know there are lots of people with a heart rate in the 50's but I don't think mine was ever this low before surgery (I just looked at my medical examinations from when my heart was still ok and the rate during blood pressure testing in the hospital has been between 59 and 68). Besides this the drop comes after I upped my exercise a bit and pushed the maximum heart rate during my runs to around 150-155 average and had peaks of up to 170 bpm.
I am a week away from my 6 monthly check up where an echo and X-ray will be made. I haven't been feeling too great the last weeks and am now worried that my heart rate is getting too low and wonder if I have been pushing too hard with exercising.
Part of the worries come from being nervous about my check-up as the last time around this was the point where I found out I had to have my second OHS. I am scared to have to undergo the echo and hear the technician saying things again like "hmm ..that is not good/normal". Every single echo I had so far in my life has been bad news.
Well, back to the topic...What do you think about my heart rate??
Regards,
Jarno
