Can a heart stop while I’m asleep?

Sometimes I wake up at night to check my pulse. How stupid is this? Its caused by anxiety.. If my pulse is weak then I won’t be able to go back to sleep. I’m scared that my heart will stop because it is beating very very slowly and I won’t wake up. Once, I got up at night and started running around to increase my heart rate and then went back to sleep. I felt more comfortable after this. What are the chances of the heart stopping in your sleep?

Sleep apena is when you stop breathing, not when your heart stops beating.
Your pulse should go down while you are resting or sleeping that is completely normal!! It should go up when you are exercising or moving around. It sounds more like anxiety to me than anything.
If it makes you feel better you can see a cardiologist. They can put a 24 hour holter monitor on. It monitors your heart for a 24 hour period. It will tell them how low your heart rate drops at night and if there are any pauses etc.
Try to relax some and find out about that holter monitor. I think just wearing it would make you feel much better.

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