I am grasping at straws here. LOW PULSE PROBLEM? Low to high 50's.
My daily headache is in the back-side of my head and neck pain along with it. I have multiple other symptoms. Memory problems, lack of co-ordination ect. ect. I won't list it. It makes people think I'm just "CRAZY." I won't go there.
My question is, Has ANYONE ever heard of a condition where someone is heat intolerable and cold intolerable.......For instance a cold breeze on the back of my neck, my head or spine makes me not feel anything; like my brain is shutting down. My pulse drops to the high 50's. My skin feels like it's on fire in my face and torso yet the back-side of my head, my hands and feet are freezing. My head is hurting and I go into confusion. I feel no feelings. I am severely slowed down. My skin is white as a Ghost! I have to remind myself to keep breathing cause I feel so too tired to keep breathing.
Anyone heard of such a thing? Am I crazy?
Please, HELP ME! Anybody out there that knows what I'm looking for to get well?
I do get dizzy if I try to do anything more than a 4 mph walk. I am familiar with the term CI. I am puzzled by the fact that actual bradycardia (40 bpm or below ) occurs after I stop exercising and sometimes long after. I've looked at posts in *********.com and the runners there (I used to be one) who had PM's implanted were having problems maintaining the necessary rate, but all of them say that their rate got back to normal after they stopped. Of course 'normal' for these very fit people was 40-50 not 70-80 as in my case. I'd love to hear from anyone here who's been in a similar situation.
I did have a Holter done a couple of years ago when I was in this low bpm stage after exercise. My rhythmn was junctional when they did my ECG. Holter showed skipped beats and pauses but sinus overall. My Timex monitor now tells me that I have an irregular rate, with a drop to 60 when I start exercise before it picks up and levels off at a suboptimal 100 bpm. Thanks for your comments.
The case you describe is a rare form of what is known as chronitropic incompetence. I don't know your age but assuming that you are under 70 your maximum heart rate should be over 130 bpm. If not, during exercise, you may experience early fatigue and not be able to achieve the levels of activity that you once achieved. This may have a number of causes, and the test we would usually order would be a 24 or 48 hour holter monitor. This would keep track of your heat rates during periods of exercise and afterwards and give the interpreter objective evidence of what is actually causing the inability of your heart to reach target heart rates.
At present you don't seem to have an indication for a pacemaker, as you have not develop any dizzyness or light-headeness.