my resting pulse

[chucky31ro]

Hello everybody
I am male ,30 years old..married with a good sex life.
My resting pulse is about 88-92 and my blood presure is about 140/80.
I am overweight but not obese.
Is my resting pulse normal at 88?
What should i do?
Should i take ivabradine or not?
I am not too young to start taking pills?
I went to 2 different doctors and one of them told me to do nothing just relax
and the other told me to start taking beta-blockers,which i could not tolerate because my sex life was going down due to the weak erection.
so i can not take beta-blockers
What should i do?should i take ivabradine or not?
PS 1 : If i make an effort my pulse rises over 100 at about 120-130.
Is this normal?
PS 2: Excuse my very poor English.

[conserned313]

a normal heart rate is 600-100, with athletes heart rate ranging from 40-60. Your heart rate is perfectly normal. You should be worried if your resting heart rate is often times above 100. Also, sit still and relax for about 5 minutes before taking your pulse. The best time to do so would actually be in the morning as soon as you wake up to prevent any activities influencing your pulse.  your systolic pressure is considered stage 1 hypertension, although your diastolic pressure is normal.

Doing regulare exercise should strengthen your heart, which would bring done your pulse and should help decrease you systolic pressure

[Mom2four85]

Personally I've been where you are, except I'm female.  I would try lifestyle and diet modifications first and see how you do.  Don't do it to lose weight but to get healthy and stay strong; losing weight is just icing on the cake when you're healthy and feel good;  then it doesn't seem like such a chore =)

Start slow with walking & interval training if your dr says; google interval training and see if it will work for you; you can do it with just about any exercise and works well when you're deconditioned - helped me greatly when I started running again back in 2006...hopefully as you exercise more, your hr/bp will regulate and won't be as high or take a roller coaster ride the better conditioned you become; if it doesn't then I'd take a good look at what your doctor is recommending.

as always, ask your dr before starting any plan and make sure you keep in contact with him/her if you have any problems

sorry for any typo's and this makes sense...

[tom_h]

As others indicated, your resting pulse rate is on the higher side of normal.  I started the beta blocker, Metoprolol about 6 years ago at 54 years of age for this very reason.  My pulse rate was high, and my blood pressure was up a bit.  Metoprolol was very effective in lowering my pulse as well as my blood pressure, and I continue to take it today; 50mg daily.  I would consider myself very healthy, and I can tell you that it had, and continues to have no effect on my libido.  If you're overweight, even a little, I'd be also concerned about the possibility of sleep apnea killing your sex life. It doesn't hurt to try the medication as the effects, if any, are reversible.

PS.  Your English is just fine!

[is_something_wrong]

A heart rate of 120-130 while climbing stairs is not abnormal, by the way.

[is_something_wrong]

Well, if the doctor prescribed it, you have two choices:

1) You could try taking it, and see if it helps. If it doesn't, or side effects are unbearable, you could just ask your doctor if you can stop taking it, or ask if you can reduce the dosage.

2) You could not take it, but if you don't, and you find your symptoms unbearable, you need to make some effort treating them without meds. Losing some weight and start to exercise, for example.

I get a thought when I read your posts, that some of the heart rate elevation is caused by your fear of a rapid heart rate (which without doubt will make your heart rate increase). If this is the case, you may look that way when you decide what steps you should take to decrease it.

You alone must decide this. It's not, by any means, OK for us to say "yes" or "no" to a question concerning medications. I'm sorry.

[chucky31ro]

he prescribed it
but i am worried that if i start taking it my heart rate will be too low
and i am also worried about side effects too
i don't know what to do
when my heart rate reaches 120-130 i do just a little effort...like just walking or climbing stairs etc

[itdood]

It's much better to manage through lifestyle changes.  Back in 2007 I lost 30 pounds and my BP went from border-line high to really good.  Typically I'm around 105/65 these days.  In the docs office even with white coat syndrome I'm 115/75.  I'm really glad I didn't start popping pills to deal with it, the side effects are worse than the issue.   I do understand that certain conditions require it.  Border-line high is treatable with weight loss, usually.

[is_something_wrong]

Hello.

A resting heart rate of 88 isn't necessarily dangerous (it's borderline high, normal resting heart rates are 40-90), it may just be a sign of poor condition. Ivabradine is as far as I know, used to treat inappropriate sinus tachycardia, but it doesn't seem you are there. Your blood pressure is a bit elevated, could it be that you are constantly stressed? With IST the blood pressure is usually low, that's why beta blockers aren't tolerated.

Did your doctor actually prescribe Ivabradine or is this just something you have read about?

The heart rate is supposed to increase with efforts, the question is what effort do you do when the heart rate is climbing to 120-130 (which is not so high, by the way).

If I were you, I would try to lose some weight and start exercising. That usually helps. Monitoring the heart rate through 24 hours is also a good idea. I did, and I was surprised how low my HR really was. At that time (2 years ago) my heart rate was always 80-90 when I measured it but the average turned out to be 70 (including exercise and work).