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Fast heart rate

dogslife said:
I notice the original post and replies were a long time ago so I hope Jackie006 found the answers she needed. As it is still relevant to recent posters I wondered --Could it be the affect of medication, pain or stress? My heart rate varies but always reads high, sometimes double that of my husbands. My blood pressure is high and I have a lot of pain and stress. The extra medication I have recently been put on to help with the pain plus additional medication for blood pressure pushed my pulse rate up to 128ish so I have now been put on beta blockers which brought my heart rate down to 72 after only one tablet! Not sure if it is made worse by diabetes. Personally I would always check it out with a GP to be on the safe side.
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IMO pain and stress can make both heart rate and bg higher. Congratulations on getting your HR down so quickly. 128bpm must have been very tiring for you - as if you were doing a slow jogging workout all the time! However beta blockers can raise bg. Some are apparently better than others in this respect. You might like to read this article, check which beta blocker you are taking, and if necessary discuss a change with your GP.
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/newer-beta-blocker-coreg-safer-for-diabetics/
 
JohnEGreen said:
Mine is according to my fitness bracelet 65 at the moment but every now and then seemingly at random times I get a high heart rate alarm don't know why.
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Fitness bracelets are not very accurate, so it might be just an occasional equipment failure. If you are really concerned, Heart Rate Monitors with a chest strap are not necessarily very dear and can be ECG accurate. You wouldn't want to wear one all day every day, but you could wear one long enough to catch any irregularities. Occasional rogue high or skipped beats are common and not a symptom of any problem.
 
jcbman said:
Rock steady 60 resting.
Now, exercise always aim to double it, then go to triple for short periods.

Even with the fat I was 60, when I lost (most of) the gut it was the same.
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Well done pushing your HR up to 180. IMO you will be doing your heart a world of good.
 
Mine at the moment sitting here with my morning heart starter coffee, is 65 bpm, with a spo2 of 96%; I have AFib so keep a close eye on it with medication.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Just checked my bracelet against my pulse oximeter and they both read 75 bpm with the pulse oximeter giving spo2 97%
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Did you get the alarms at rest or in action? I use an oximeter too and find it very convenient for readings in bed in the morning, but it will only work at rest.
 
At rest or moving and bracelert alarm acts at heart beats above 120. I have oximeter as have MG and Asthma as well as stents for AAA and Iliac artery aneurysm
 
Mine ranges just under 100 but they see me obese and unable to walk properly and assume its due to being unfit.
Nope. It's due to pain and now anaemia which affects my breathing.
I wish medics could realise obese people can be fit and healthy. Like I was before my back problem.
Heart beat speed is very good health related.
 
My resting pulse rate has been 100 (give or take a couple of beats) since I was 16. Back then the doctors said it was just an idiosyncrasy, but NOW it's a sign of how unfit I am. Yeah, right, sorry, not believing you on that.

They do agree I shouldn't try to exercise to raise its rate to triple the resting rate though.
 
Mine was mostly in the 80s and 90s resting. I have my own cuff and test it regularly. I don't have high blood pressure. Then, out of the blue in December I was woosy then fainted (and banged my head). Thought nothing of it, but went to the GP the following day at the insistence of my hubby. In his waiting room I fainted again!. Most unusual for me. GP did an ECG and noted some ventricular ectopic heart beats, and my heart rate was 128. Because irregular heart beats combined with tachycardia can be dangerous, and might have been the cause of the faints, he sent me to A&E for some heart monitoring. (quicker to get the monitoring as an in patient than an outpatient) Cutting a very long story short I didn't get the monitoring but was prescribed Atenolol (Beta Blocker). I have since had a 24 hour ECG which showed a mean heart rate of 60 something and the ectopics gone. Just one very short burst of A Fib - less than a few seconds. However, the Atenolol has pushed my base line blood sugars up about 0.5mmol/l and I'm only on the lowest possible dose. I have an appointment next week to discuss coming off them now things have settled down.

The point of my essay is, if you have tachycardia and irregular heart beats, it can be serious, so it needs investigating.
 
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See your GP and get a thyroid test done, I expect the meds for your unattractive thyroid need changing, but without the test result no one can tell.
 
Alexandra100 said:
IMO pain and stress can make both heart rate and bg higher. Congratulations on getting your HR down so quickly. 128bpm must have been very tiring for you - as if you were doing a slow jogging workout all the time! However beta blockers can raise bg. Some are apparently better than others in this respect. You might like to read this article, check which beta blocker you are taking, and if necessary discuss a change with your GP.
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/newer-beta-blocker-coreg-safer-for-diabetics/
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Interesting reading, Alexandra100, thanks.I am taking Bisoprolol. I was amazed how quickly it affected my pulse rate. I have been in a lot of pain for the last 8+ months and am frequently stressed due to caring for my elderly mum who has memory problems etc. but I'm sure it was a recent change in medication that caused the very high pulse rate. I had been prescribed Amitriptyline to take at night for the pain as well as an additional blood pressure medication. Soon afterwards I could feel my heart pounding when I woke in the mornings and at my recent blood pressure checks my pulse was very fast, hence the beta blockers. My back/ hip problem has meant that I can no longer do my usual exercise so my bs are higher than I'd like too. I'm hoping that my recent MRI scan will identify the cause of my pain so that I can get back some of my control. Thanks again.:)
 
Mine used to be in 60s without betablockers but was hypothyroidism diagnosed.
Untreated hypothyroidism lowers the heart beat speed and blood pressure, I understand??
 
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