??? Heart Racing

Hi Purplegirl (Ps I love purple too!). My heart does not race constantly (and if yours is racing all the time, I would definitely get to a doctor), but I have definitely had times where it is going crazy fast. I measured my pulse at 130 one night, when I couldn't sleep because I was gasping just I'd just run up a flight of stairs. And it got to 180 once after going up a single flight of stairs! And I used to be in shape! I swear!

My ND believes it is from Babesia in my case. But there are other things too, like autonomic dysfunctions, that could mean that your heart is getting the wrong signals, and beating fast because it THINKS it has to, when it really doesn't. And obviously anxiety can cause it, but typically if that is the cause you have other symptoms of a panic attack, and it doesn't keep going indefinitely.

This is something you should definitely check out with a doctor

Hi WWJD20.. You know I thought about the liver thing the other day and wondered the same thing .. Could my liver be over worked ..

YES! My heart has been racing off and on since starting antibiotics. I stopped one of the antibiotics a few months ago and my heart rate dropped 10-20 beats per minute (from 90's/low 100's resting to low 70's resting). I felt so much better and more calm when it slowed down.

So now I'm on a different antibiotic and had been fine until a week or two ago. It's creeped back up again to the 80's-90's resting. I have been waking up to it feeling like it is racing. So scary. I do believe some of mine is anxiety, or at least made worse by anxiety.

I'm also having low-grade fevers off and on.

Purple- how fast is your heart going when it's racing?

To my knowledge, 90's isn't bad. It's uncomfortable, but not dangerous from what the nurse has told me. Even still, the doctor had told me that it wasn't good for it to always stay up.

Hmmm. I've been told that under 100 is ok, but anything over 100 is fast (aka matters to doctors).