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A member asked:
Can lack of sleep/anxiety cause a rapid heart rate and 'lighthead?' i have been awake all night with palpitations/head zaps as i try to fall asleep.
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Lack of sleep: Sleep deprivation can be a factor in causing irritability, anxiety, poor concentration, fatigue, etc.
Answered 7/20/2021
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Blood pressure: Yes anxiety can cause headache also not sleeping can cause headache also check your blood pressure.
Answered 11/4/2014
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For the last week I have had substantial heart palpitations, keeping me from sleeping at night. Can anxiety do that? For that long?
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I suffer from anxiety and when i try to fall asleep my left side of my body goes numb and my heart stops. Then my body jolts me awake.
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Forced awake for the past 3 months by "palpitations". Never forced awake b4. Only get 90 mins of natural sleep. Doc is treating as anxiety put me on Clonazepam; could they be bradyarryth?. Resting heart rate 40s. On propranalol 16 yr and CPAP 12 yrs?
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