The significance of heart rates?

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Okay so I've developed somewhat of an OCD when it comes to checking my heart rate during random times throughout the day. I was never really an anxious person before the benzos got to me so I was not too aware of how symptoms such as a racing heart actually felt at the time they occur during a panic attack. For most of the time I've been tracking my HR, I was concerned that it might get "too high" and become life threatening - this thought further fed the anxiety which was actually causing my heart to race. This became more problematic during my withdrawal and I started feeling that I had permanently damaged my body thanks to the Xanax.

 

I got several tests, including an ECG done just to be sure and everything turned out to be fine. Soon I was no longer checking my HR every few minutes and instead, just taking a reading after a few hours - a massive improvement. However, just as soon as I thought that I had grown over this fear of mine, an equally unsettling feeling started to emerge because I was now experiencing a slow HR! Now I am anxious that maybe my HR is too low and that it could be dangerous in some way.So basically, I'm right where I started at the beginning of all this mess - feeling anxious that there is something wrong with my heart rate.

 

I am 25, nonathletic, barely exercise  and slim (not accounting for the benzo belly). My recent lowest resting heart rate has been around 54 bpm. Is this "normal", considering I don't get enough exercise to consider myself physically fit? I don't feel symptoms such as dizziness or drowsiness but I'm usually very fatigued (regardless of my HR) thanks to the withdrawal. I know that I am currently over stimulated and am overthinking these readings irrationally. My question to you guys is that is there a heart rate range, either considered to be too high or too low, which can be considered dangerous for a person?

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I looked this up.  If your heart rate is 54 ppm, that is the heart rate of healthy young person. Would it be possible to add some minor exercise such as a walk everyday? 

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Okay so I've developed somewhat of an OCD when it comes to checking my heart rate during random times throughout the day. I was never really an anxious person before the benzos got to me so I was not too aware of how symptoms such as a racing heart actually felt at the time they occur during a panic attack. For most of the time I've been tracking my HR, I was concerned that it might get "too high" and become life threatening - this thought further fed the anxiety which was actually causing my heart to race. This became more problematic during my withdrawal and I started feeling that I had permanently damaged my body thanks to the Xanax.

 

I got several tests, including an ECG done just to be sure and everything turned out to be fine. Soon I was no longer checking my HR every few minutes and instead, just taking a reading after a few hours - a massive improvement. However, just as soon as I thought that I had grown over this fear of mine, an equally unsettling feeling started to emerge because I was now experiencing a slow HR! Now I am anxious that maybe my HR is too low and that it could be dangerous in some way.So basically, I'm right where I started at the beginning of all this mess - feeling anxious that there is something wrong with my heart rate.

 

I am 25, nonathletic, barely exercise  and slim (not accounting for the benzo belly). My recent lowest resting heart rate has been around 54 bpm. Is this "normal", considering I don't get enough exercise to consider myself physically fit? I don't feel symptoms such as dizziness or drowsiness but I'm usually very fatigued (regardless of my HR) thanks to the withdrawal. I know that I am currently over stimulated and am overthinking these readings irrationally. My question to you guys is that is there a heart rate range, either considered to be too high or too low, which can be considered dangerous for a person?

 

Its fine my heart rate has been lower than that. It is all a part of withdrawal. Eventually it will all work itself out. My heart is not that low anymore so just give it a few months. My heart rate was crazy my first month and a half off. I stopped wearing my fit-bit because it would cause me panic attacks when i would see how extreme it would fluctuate .

 

Google normal heart rate and you will get all the information you seek. Though i would caution googling anything during withdrawel unless you really need to. It often leads to UN neaded anxiety or panic.

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Mine s fast as can be... 100 just sitting... If it gets to fast I take a beta blocker.  Cant WAIT till it goes down.

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I've started walking for around 30 minutes each day and hope to increase that in the time to come. I also recently stopped smoking, which would elevate my HR on it's own I suppose. Yes, Googling most symptoms produce some really horrifying results - I still couldn't find anything particularly relating to a heart rate below 60, other than accounts posted by athletes or otherwise physically fit people. I can't wait to no longer have the urge to check my vitals all the time. This withdrawal is just looking for newer ways to get to me!