How high does your pulse go?

Or do you guys all have the self restraint not to check your blood pressure and pulse during an attack? lol!

Hi Kid, in the early days of my PAD I lived with a BP monoter that gave pulse also. ust to go as high as 185 when checking
every 15 minutes. My doctor sat me down and said Larry what are you trying to do to yourself, you are going to blow the
hoses off you heart if you dont quit. (scare tactic but it worked) It took me years to be able to check my BP and not drive
it up, what changed it for me was checking it one time when I had taked my xanax and it was 65, so I started thinking
why do this to myself, I am just borrowing trouble now days it just doesnt bother me, if my pluse seems a little rapid I pretty
well know what caused it. "Time Out SugarPlum". peace

Larry ***

This post made me laugh about the BP checking thing. I was all about that about a year and a half ago, if you look at some of my old posts, you'll see me and another member were always messing with each other about it. I was ALWAYS checking my blood pressure and pulse, several times a day, to make sure I wasn't having a stroke or something!

Anyway, things started getting to that point again, and that's when I KNEW I had to get back on an SSRI, and that the xanax alone wasn't doing the job.

As a matter of fact, I just got done checking my blood pressure and pulse!!!

But yeah, I can't remember what my pulse rate has maxed out at, but when I was in the hospital ER one time it was like 160 or something during an attack. I asked them, after they were done with my blood work, EKG, and giving me a mg of Ativan through IV, if I could leave yet, and the nurse says to me "The doctors just waiting for your heart rate to go down a bit" So I asked her what it was, and she told me it was still at 100, I just laughed and said "well he's gonna be sitting here all day waiting for that to happen!" She asked why and I told her that that is what my resting heart rate is. LOL!

The things we do to ourselves from the fear of having anxiety seems crazy sometimes....

i try not to pulse check i dont realy bother anymore but when i was going through high anxiety i used to check it and it could be up at 150 ... i stoped checking it after i had my 24 hour holter i had a terrible day on it and although my pulse was up and down and went up to 153 there were no abnormalities apart from being tach which coinsided with my anxiety so after that i stoped checking and surprise surprise a short while after that i stopped feeling it thumping like i used to
Jenna x

My heart rate goes up around 100 during attacks. It is not high, but the problem is irregular beats which scares the hell out of me. My BP rose as high as 170/110, normally it is around 110/70.

My resting HR is in the 50's...when I am anxious it can go into the triple digits...that crazy when it can more than double!

My BP does the same...normally low, but it I am scared, it goes up fast!

The important thing to remember is that it is the average of these numbers that it important.

Using all of your coping skills should help to get you back into healthy ranges...that and not focusing/obsessing on all of the numbers...so easy to say...so hard to do!!!!!

S.C.

Okay, irOk...

You win the prize...
We are all guilty of using our BP machines to excess at one time or another, or taking our pulse...

...but you have just taken it to another level with the pulse ox!

It's a good thing we don't know where you live...we would all be stalking you, begging you to take ours too, Lol!!

Hey, we gotta laugh about this stuff, right?

Hugs and high fives all!

S.C.