Slow Heart Rate - Should I Be Worried?

[flandan2507]

I recently bought a FitBit - one that tracks my heart rate. Since having it, it has highlighted that my resting heart rate is 47. Even sitting here right now, I've counted my pulse over a minute myself and it is sitting at 48.

I'm 24, Im not particularly athletic but I'm not massively unfit either. I'm just about average.

Should I be worried??

[jomifl]

If your blood pressure is normal...no.

[Buenchico]

See 'Bradycardia' here:
http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/Media/Controlleddocuments/Patientinformation/Heartandlungs/Bradyarrhythmias-patientinformation.pdf

It's probably worth getting it checked out but the chances are that your GP will simply mutter something about 'first–degree heart block' and tell you to go away and forget about it unless you experience any other symptoms.

[Buenchico]

Also worth a read:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Heart-block/Pages/Introduction.aspx

[douglas9401]

No need to worry about your heart rate, it was the same before you bought the gizmo.
Your worry should be about your desire to buy any old tat that everybody else is getting.

[Maydup]

Lol take no notice of Douglas, it might be a gizmo, but its not any old tat!

Its unlikley to be a problem, but best to get yourself checked out, no point in having the info and not acting upon it.

[Sqad]

As long as you are not short of breath and have no other symptoms, then 47 seems perfectly normal to me.

[Buenchico]

Flandan2507:
As I see that you're a new member here, I'm posting just to let you know that Sqad (^^^) is our recognised medical expert ('cos he's a retired GP) so his advice should normally take precedence over anything else you see posted here about medical issues.

[stuey]

Wot? A Geriatric Pensioner living in luxury in a foreign clime?

[Jackdaw33]

The time to start worrying is when the rate approaches zero. Stuey, a geriatric pensioner? Best run and hide if I were you.

[Sqad]

flandan...to put things in perspective, i am a retired Consultant.....very geriatric.....and my advice is no better or worse than any other contributor's, often.........worse.

[DTCwordfan]

A family friend and his wife who lives about a mile away in this farming community, an ex-heart surgeon has just moved into the centre of Truro for their final years. I saw him recently..."I will have a fifty yard walk to the pub, seventy yards to the Doctor, one hundred yards walk to the dentist and three hundred yards to the undertaker."

[jomifl]

It will be the 300yd walk that does for him..

[AB Editor]

I have a slow heart-rate of around 40-45 resting - the doctor will most likely do some blood and and ecg (I may have those letters the wrong way round). My outcome was that I was fine, and just "have a slow heart rate" - nothing to worry about.

No need to worry, but if you went to the docs to get checked out, you wouldn't be wasting anyone's time as it's about a 30 minute process end to end across two days. In my experience.

[anneasquith]

Squad. "" is our recognized medical expert"" is he on the patrols ?

[anneasquith]

Lol. Payroll