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Rapid Hearth Rate while sleeping

by Diane1950, Jul 24, 2009 12:46PM
As a teen - I would get rapid heart rate occurrences - the older I got, it subsided - early 30's. I am 58 years old - During the night when I am in a deep sleep, I will be awoken by rapid heart beat - sometimes I will be dreaming and something in my dream triggers the rapid beating. I am thinking though that maybe the rapid beating has already started and I start to dream - casing me to create a dream that would have a bad situation in it, which would cause me to be scared or upset and frighten me enough. I am not sure, all I do know that, when I awaken and my heart is beating so terribly fast and hard - it is very scary. I do have stress in my life - maybe this could be causing me to have this problem. About 6 months ago I had a few drinks in the evening, went to bed - and then woke up with a terrible episode of this fast heart rate. Once since then, I drank 3-4 drinks and it happened again.  So, I have stopped drinking alcohol of any amount over two drinks. This past week I have had three episodes while sleeping - 3 nights in a row. After reading so many stories of people with the same situations, I wonder - should I see a doctor????
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by mammo, Jul 24, 2009 02:17PM
To: Diane1950
Yes, I would see a doctor.  I'm your age and I wouldn't wait on this, since we are at the age when things like heart problems start.  It may just be anxiety, panic attacks, sleep apnea, but you need to know.  Best of luck to you.

by ed34, Jul 24, 2009 04:10PM
Did you know that your heart responds to your actual dreams. If you are not having a
particularly nice dream, your heart will speed up as if it was actually happening. This
is one of the reasons we can wake up after several hours of sleep and yet feel exhausted. A GP should be able to prescribe medication to keep you relaxed through
the night. I'm the opposite, when I sleep I usually have nice relaxing dreams. In hospital
recently my pulse was 60-80 during normal rest but when asleep it was dropping to
38-45 setting off all the alarms. This caused them to reduce my beta blockers to just
1.25mg a day which has helped to balance things out.

by sukumar794, Jul 25, 2009 05:15AM
To: Diane 150
Cardiological consultation would be the ideal choice.You really have to ascertain whether the condition pertains to tachycardia or not.Take care.
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