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I average around 50 to 60 BPM.
I was in the emerg once hooked up to their cardiac equipment -- it measured 40 BPM - very freaky. I was experiencing very low BP at the time too. I went to the ER because I was wavering on losing consciousness. They never did find a concrete reason for this but at least the numbers showed something was going on.
Why are you asking?
I average around 50 to 60 BPM.
Why are you asking?
There was another post that mentioned a low heart rate is seen in Lyme. But I knew that PWC's often reported both low and high...was just interested to see if there was a significant deviation from normal.
I didn't realize so many of us had low resting HR. Low BP, yes, but low HR is new to me.
My resting HR is 80-85 (sometimes more) depending on time of day and what I've been doing. And that's with Florinef and a calcium channel blocker to reduce my HR. My walking around HR is 105-115. My AT is 125, so I can go over it relatively easily. I thought this was fairly common in ME/CFS. Go figure.
Do those of you with low HR have trouble staying under your AT?
I don't think drs. ever showed much concern for low BP. My mother had low BP, which I inherited. Her doctors told her that there was no such thing as too low blood pressure. She said that was easy for them to say since they did not have to live with it.