I can't work out if I'm being a drama queen or not!
I always seem to have a high heart rate while exercising but yesterdays session at the gym was ridiculous. I was pootling along on the cross trainer, barely puffing, and really struggled to keep my heart rate below 170. I know those machines are famously inaccurate but this happens quite often on all different machines - and all the people around me who are working much harder on the same machines seem to be around 120/130.
As a (perhaps slightly insane) experiment, I got on the treadmill and had a little jog, so working a little harder than I was before but by no means sprinting. I wouldn't even call it running. Again others around me were running much, much faster. I grabbed the heart rate thing and it showed a pretty terrifying 240. Got off straight away and then felt dizzy (I often am dizzy after cardio). I didn't think about it that much yesterday beyond thinking I should make a GP appointment at some point but I've just Googled a bit and am now a bit freaked out.
My GP doesn't have any appointments left today (it's a 'ring up in the morning' job) but there's a walk in centre right next door to my work. At least, I thought that's what it was, I've just Googled it and it's actually and Urgent Care Centre.
WWYD, go along and risk being branded a time-waster or wait for GP tomorrow? I'm struggling to concentrate at work because I keep worrying about it.