I am currently resting from another episode of an out of control heart rate I experienced early this morning. I've suffered from this off and on for 20 years now. I will go years without a hint of a problem and then have two episodes occurred within weeks of each other like this one. What is always interesting to me is that I will be pulled out of dead sleep with the onset of a strong, fast heartbeat. Sometimes they go away after a few minutes or less and I go right back to sleep. The recent ones both happened at 6:30 a.m. and lasted over an hour.
The episodes are much worse than I've ever experienced before. My lips and tongue go numb and my fingers and toes tingle and lose feeling. My jaw will ache and hurt too. It is a terribly frightening ordeal. A few weeks ago I called 9-1-1 and was given an IV in my neck to administer some medication that finally slowed my heart. My B.P. was clocked at 60/40 and they could not get a pulse. Once my heart rate comes back to normal I immediately feel 100% better - but tired for about a day.
This time I had the same symptoms as last time but my husband was with me and kept me calm. He was ready to drive me to emergency after an hour of a rapid heart rate when I began to lose my hearing and eyesight - like I was losing consciousness. When I stood up to walk I knew I could not walk and was too weak to hold onto his neck for his to lift me up. I fell back on the bed with my legs up to my chest and began crying. I cried hard and loud for a minute or so and suddenly my heart rate dropped down to normal. I'm wondering if crying or bawling like a child does when they can't catch their breath brought my blood pressure up high enough for my heart to come back to a normal pattern.
My doctor will have to give me some answers. I am a very busy woman, very stressed, new business, bankruptcy, foreclosure and prone to migraines monthly. I am 46.
The episodes are much worse than I've ever experienced before. My lips and tongue go numb and my fingers and toes tingle and lose feeling. My jaw will ache and hurt too. It is a terribly frightening ordeal. A few weeks ago I called 9-1-1 and was given an IV in my neck to administer some medication that finally slowed my heart. My B.P. was clocked at 60/40 and they could not get a pulse. Once my heart rate comes back to normal I immediately feel 100% better - but tired for about a day.
This time I had the same symptoms as last time but my husband was with me and kept me calm. He was ready to drive me to emergency after an hour of a rapid heart rate when I began to lose my hearing and eyesight - like I was losing consciousness. When I stood up to walk I knew I could not walk and was too weak to hold onto his neck for his to lift me up. I fell back on the bed with my legs up to my chest and began crying. I cried hard and loud for a minute or so and suddenly my heart rate dropped down to normal. I'm wondering if crying or bawling like a child does when they can't catch their breath brought my blood pressure up high enough for my heart to come back to a normal pattern.
My doctor will have to give me some answers. I am a very busy woman, very stressed, new business, bankruptcy, foreclosure and prone to migraines monthly. I am 46.
i've had similar moments, sometimes when i'm completely relaxed, and other when I am being active. The fact that I live an active lifestyle anyway doesn't seem to make matters better or worse- the rapid heartbeat, dizziness or light-headedness, and sometimes even the blacking out of my vision comes and goes as it will. I've learned breathing techniques that I use to calm my heart, but its definitely quite unnerving, especially when it occurs in a restful environment like it did just a few moments ago.
That said, i've had doctors say and prescribe many things, and they are often contradictory. As it stands now, I only worry if I can't calm myself because panic attacks are decidedly dangerous. But that kind of emotional and physical control isn't something that comes naturally, but rather something you have to work at. So my suggestion would be if you're doing something that works, keep at it, but if it's not working them you may want to try "treating" the symptoms with alternative means and then if that doesn't work allowing the doctors to test away.
Sorry that's not much help.
That said, i've had doctors say and prescribe many things, and they are often contradictory. As it stands now, I only worry if I can't calm myself because panic attacks are decidedly dangerous. But that kind of emotional and physical control isn't something that comes naturally, but rather something you have to work at. So my suggestion would be if you're doing something that works, keep at it, but if it's not working them you may want to try "treating" the symptoms with alternative means and then if that doesn't work allowing the doctors to test away.
Sorry that's not much help.
Not a doctor, just a college student, but I recently learned about sleep apnea. It can cause an increased heart rate, but I don't know about this high. Most of you I think said it happened in your sleep. I just experienced my heart beating faster than I thought was possible...it woke me from a pleasant dream, and now I'm too shaken to go back to sleep, no matter how much I need it for today...I have some signs of sleep apnea I think, after some research into it, and I'm hoping that's the cause as that is completely treatable in most cases. Diagnoses is done by spending the night in a sleep lab, where the doctor will monitor what's going on with your body as you sleep. Sleep apnea has been known to cause heart attacks and other serious problems if it goes untreated. And whether you think you may have it or not, if it happens in your sleep, a sleep lab is where they can find it in action.
I'm 19, and definitely too young for heart trouble. So of course, this event kind of has me freaking out.
I have a similar problem. i experience this parid heart beat every couple of months, sometimes more often. It ususally happens when I'm doing some type of exercise and I just have to spot and completely relax my body and take deep breaths when I can. The last time that it happened to be I was just relaxing my a camp fire and my heart just went nuts, I happened to be wearing my heart monitor watch and I got a reading of 197bpm. This is the 1st time that I was able to actually see how fast my heart was beating and it really freaked me out. My watch only reads up to 200bpm so it took me a few tries before i was able to get a reading so I'm wondering if it was beating even faster than that. I was going to contact my doctor, but I'm reading was all you have posted and it doesnt seem like the doctors can even do anything about this. this is really scary though, when mu heart starts punding like this it feels like its going to just jump out of my chest.
Its probably Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, seems I have the same thing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001235/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001235/
johnjnn wrote:
I suffer from these incidents; being woken up at night by extremely rapid bu regular heartbeating. It is now going on 20 years. It is definitely an electrical problem controled somewhat by beta blockers. It is always triggered by anxiety and or over exertion.
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I had my pulse rate jump to over 200 I was supervised by the hospital at the time and that ended with a icu stay. I ended in a coma for three days, and when I woken the doctor prescribed me inderal as a beta blocker should i still be on it ? cause i'm not. I have another physician regular doctor that I wanted to get a referal for a cardiologist she denied it cause she said i was too young for heart problems . I feel I need a second opinion that same doc prescribed me muscle relaxers , what am i going to do with those?!? i mean should i bother if this condition landed me in coma should'nt i take care of it
Wow 200?! My wifes friend has problem with her heart. She is always taking some medicine, and she never really rests. My wife asked me to see if there is anything here about heart problems. While searching for some stuff I found out about some Implanted heart defibrillators that can help elderly heart attack survivors live longer. I was wondering if anybody could tell me something about this? Or if you have some other suggestions feel free to post.
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I suffer from these incidents; being woken up at night by extremely rapid bu regular heartbeating. It is now going on 20 years. It is definitely an electrical problem controled somewhat by beta blockers. It is always triggered by anxiety and or over exertion.
Kindly suggest to me a specific medicine which the better for me.
Wow! That is over the top! I awaken with rapid heat beat and it is scarey. We control it with Toperal (Metropol). This reduces the severity. I figured these attacks are brought on by anxiety and physical exhaustion. I try not to worry any more.
I am 19 years old, healthy and have been pretty active all my life today i experienced very similar to what everyone has explained above i was casually shopping i was relaxed not stressed out at all and suddenly i felt this weird shift sensation in my chest and my heart began to beat extremely fast, faster than i have ever experienced beating in all my years playing soccer. However i did not feel dizzy or shortness of breath this episode lasted about 5 mins and then suddenly stopped and my heart began beating normally. Normally i have a really low heart rate but i do have really low blood pressure and every doctor seems confused that my blood pressure is so low but i never feel dizzy or faint . is this something i should be concerned about and could be related to having really low blood pressure?
I had occastional rapid heart beats starting in high school and into my 20s. When I would lie down, it would usually go away so it was hard for the doctors to get an EKG because they would ask me to lie down and it would go away. I finally had a bad "attack" and was able to get it on an EKG. A cardiologist diagonosed me with supraventricular tachicardia (SVT). Medicine helped me with it for many years, until I ended up in the emergency room with another bad "attack". Decided to go through with a procedure called a catheter ablation and have been "cured". No more rapid heart beats for over 10 years (even had two wonderful children after the procudure). Hope this helps someone.
I'm 24 male 260lbs for the past few weeks my heart rate will accelerate xtremly fast idk exactly how fast but it beats so fast you can't even feel it actually beating just a straight beat I guess you can say. I feel like I can't catch a breathe an gasp for air. WhatiI find that helps is if I force my body to catch up to the heart rate. It happens a lot while I'm at work an it also happens when I'm just chillin watching tv or something. Any ideas?
i just had my 19th birthday and i've bin having a very similar problem my whole life. all of a sudden i'll get lightheaded and i feel like i have butterflies in my stomach...somtimes my vision goes blank and white and ringing in my ears gets so loud i cant hear anything else....and my heartrate accelerates up to 200 bpm. once it was around 230. afterwards i always have a pounding headache. but it starts to fade away after a few minutes and it's like it never happened. ignorantly...i havent talked to a doctor or anything
Yes it was. Thank you.
When these epidodes occur, are you sleeping on your back?