High resting heart rate. Anyone?

I know this has probably been talked about over and over but who else at times suffers from severe high resting heart rate? And I don't mean like 80 or 90 bpm. I'm talking like over 140 bpm for no reason.

For example I remember last year watching tv and then feeling odd and checking my heart rate and it was up to 194 bpm!

Anyone else have this at times? I've found that cat's claw helped me.

opugirl said...
Hi Jay,

I was diagnosed with tachychardia/POTS. For me when I needed a higher heart rate for example, going up the stairs instead it would go down and I would be tired. When I would lie down sometimes my heart rate would shoot up. It was annoying and concerning. I did end up seeing a cardiologist for a little while just to monitor. He was not too worried after we got results back from the heart monitor. It was reassuring though to have a drs. opinion. I would say if you are able to get in and insurance will cover it go for it.

I used a hawthorne supplement for a few months and that helped quite a bit. Not all of the symptoms went away but the heart issues were lessened by about 80%.

~beth

Thanks for the concern but I see a heart specialist at Vanderbilt a few times a year already. And just in the past 2 years I've done the home Holter monitor, two echo's, one ct scan, two chest x-rays, and a stress test. I also spent a week in the hospital hooked up to the machines while being monitored. Talk about expensive. Especially when you have no insurance. But hey you gotta do what you gotta do.

But anyways I'm not too concerned I was just wondering if anyone else experiences this.

Post Edited (JayPoppa) : 8/7/2018 7:35:48 AM (GMT-6)

I have had high resting pulse to 120, elevated bp for over a month, slow digestion and breathing rate. As well as pots. All of these are due to autonomic nervous system or vagus nerve pain nflammation or damage. For me all of these things happened after abx, so I think it's inflammation of vagus nerve. I hope anyways, since it's not forever

Mine was never that high. At my worst, it was 120's.

A few weeks ago my heart rate went up from the usual 69BPM to 105BPM. I went to my PCP and he wanted to send me to the ER for an ultrasound. I refused since I didn't have the money to pay for the ER. The next day it began to go down and 24 hours after it started it went back to normal.

What I found out what that the MSG in the Chinese food that I had eaten the day before had raised my heart rate.

I mentioned the event to a Cardiologist that I speak to on occasion and he said that my PCP should have given me a Beta Blocker. He said that this should have brought my pulse rate down to normal within the hour if there was no physical or electrical impairment to my heart. And if that the beta blocker had not helped then I needed to go get tested for a heart abnormality.

WalkingbyFaith said...

JayPoppa said...

opugirl said...
Hi Jay,

I was diagnosed with tachychardia/POTS. For me when I needed a higher heart rate for example, going up the stairs instead it would go down and I would be tired. When I would lie down sometimes my heart rate would shoot up. It was annoying and concerning. I did end up seeing a cardiologist for a little while just to monitor. He was not too worried after we got results back from the heart monitor. It was reassuring though to have a drs. opinion. I would say if you are able to get in and insurance will cover it go for it.

I used a hawthorne supplement for a few months and that helped quite a bit. Not all of the symptoms went away but the heart issues were lessened by about 80%.

~beth

Thanks for the concern but I see a heart specialist at Vanderbilt a few times a year already. And just in the past 2 years I've done the home Holter monitor, two echo's, one ct scan, two chest x-rays, and a stress test. I also spent a week in the hospital hooked up to the machines while being monitored. Talk about expensive. Especially when you have no insurance. But hey you gotta do what you gotta do.

But anyways I'm not too concerned I was just wondering if anyone else experiences this.

Jay,

Did anything abnormal show up in your tests?

I never got anything but EKG, echo, stress with echo. Never diagnosed with anything except mitral valve regurge and prolapse.

There was nothing physical they could see that could be causing these problems. But yeah I've done countless ekg's, echo's, ct scan, chest xrays, stress test, blood tests, etc. My cardiologist and hospital cardio's basically told me that whatever is causing my problems is not my heart itself.

Which only points to the lyme cause all this started happening after I got lyme.