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Help interpreting ECG please?

Hi ,
Earlier today I had an ECG done at the cheapest clinic I could find. The Dr. said it was normal, but when I got home I realised that he had it set for a man (I'm female) and hadn't filled out any of the other information.

This is exactly what the results said:

Diagnosis Information:
811: Sinus Bradycardia
121: Counterclockwise Rotation
***Normal ECG***

What concerns me is those stars and whether or not that's normal for a female ?

Some other info that may be useful:

I'm a 36 year old female. I weigh 208 and am five nine. I don't smoke or drink.
In another column the ecg said:
HR: 55 BPM
P Dur : 108ms
PR int: 167ms
QRS Dur:97 ms
QT/QTC int:397/382 ms
P/QRS/T axis:64/37/54 (swedish o or degrees symbol)
RV5/SV1 amp : 1.974/0.370 mV
RV5 SV1 amp : 2.344 mV
RV6/5V2 amp : 1.990/0.362 mV

I haven't a clue what any of this means, but hopefully someone can tell me if, in fact, my ECG is normal and I need not worry.
TIA :)
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Thanks for responding :)
I went because I wanted to be sure I didn't have a heart attack. I lead a very active lifestyle and had to be sure I could continue work, jogging, etc. with out risking my heart. I'm not in the best of health and I need to exercise to lower my blood pressure (144/90). That's only recent and I think wholly because of the stress of having been cut back work.  I had crushing pain (like I was having the wind kicked out of me) in the center of my chest last Tuesday from about 10 am to 5 pm ish intermittently. It got worse when I leaned forward or coughed and got better when I laid on my side. Since then I had been experiencing little twinges of pain and a few times I felt a fullness in my chest. Finally, I went to a walk in clinic. It wasn't the best place, but I haven't had insurance since January and couldn't really afford a better place.
Thanks again for your help :)
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I can help a little bit.  Although sinus bradycardia is considered abnormal, it is, in fact, normal for some people to have a resting heart rate of under 60.  If you were lying down and you are in pretty good shape physically, it is not uncommon to have your heart rate at 55.  As for the counter clockwise rotation, that is too technical to explain and you don't really need to understand it, just that 2/3 of the population have either clockwise or counterclockwise rotation so it may or may not signify an underlying disease.  Since 2/3 of us have it, and most of the people that DO have it do not have heart disease, doctors would only worry about this if there were other factors involved.  Why did you get an EKG in the first place?
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