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Husband's Heart Rate
My OH had to go to gp practice this morning, to get his B12 injection. While there he had his blood pressure taken and heart pulse which was 32! Nurse just wrote it down, but didn't express concern. Surely that's way too low?
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My heart rate was showing as low 30s when I saw the practice nurse. Quick referral showed I have mitral valve regurgitation. I would have expected the nurse to either consult with the GP or sort out a referral.
Have you taken his pulse since?
By the way, those oximeters don't work with me as I have reynauds disease
Patsy, maybe it will help to say that Mr. J2's b.p. and pulse are always way down, around 60. Because he has had a triple bypass, everyone is very happy with this. Occasionally he'll get a faint/dizzy spell, but it's not important. Just had his annual MOT (he's 91 now) and no-one is waving any flags.
My elder daughter (was a top rank athlete) produced alarmingly low BP etc. figures at the time, but was just extremely fit.Now in her late 40s she is a regular 60something and has been lower (they also told her that she only had one kidney at one point - all well, just very fit).
Don't worry is my advice. :)
54 is okay, 32's low. I was getting readings of about 30 on my little home BP monitor, and the chemist got the same reading. But A&E, using a full-scale monitor, gave a reading of 60 and sent me home.
Turned out I had arrhythmia, every second beat was weaker and my monitor didn't pick it up while the hospital's one did.
But what that meant was that my cheap monitor actually detected the problem while the hospital one didn't. So I'd be asking the GP to explain it.