resting heart rate?

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I had open heart surgery last April and I woke up late the first night to a cardiologist and a nurse discussing my pulse. The cardiologist was concerned that it was too low, 47, and was going to increase it with the external pacemaker that was hooked up. The nurse told him that I told her I was a triathlete and had a resting heart rate of 49 (I was groggy and don't remember saying this). The next morning she told me what happened and whether I really did have a rhr of 49 and wasn't delirious as she put her credibility on the line.

Since then, I have learned that athletic people tell docs before surgery what their rhr is so the medical staff doesn't freak out.

Indurain's 28 is the lowest rhr ever measured of a healthy person. Obscene!

Wow, good thing you told them though! That happens to me. I just had surgery and they were worried about giving me more Morphine because of my low HR, but my mom and I had to keep telling them that it's naturally in the mid 40s and they really needed to stop worrying.

28 RHR is nuts though. Mine went down to that during sleep once and the nurse came running in freakin' out to wake me up. I woke up like a normal person and was like what? What's wrong?

 

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Wow, good thing you told them though! That happens to me. I just had surgery and they were worried about giving me more Morphine because of my low HR, but my mom and I had to keep telling them that it's naturally in the mid 40s and they really needed to stop worrying.

28 RHR is nuts though. Mine went down to that during sleep once and the nurse came running in freakin' out to wake me up. I woke up like a normal person and was like what? What's wrong?

ahh doctors, you would have thought they'd realise that athletes tend to have quite low rhr's, what with their degrees and all those years in med school

 

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ahh doctors, you would have thought they'd realise that athletes tend to have quite low rhr's, what with their degrees and all those years in med school

One would think. Although my PCP once told me that if I ate too much protein "I would die." Exact words. This was based on the fact that I had 1, maybe 2, protein shakes a day and consumed 30-40% of my calories from protein. I got into a big argument with him over that. Did you know that half (it's either half or more) of Med Schools in the US only require 25 hours of nutrition class. NUTS.