Experiencing excessive heart rate with nausea

[Jules09]

I realize that I don't fit the demographics of someone with heart problems seeing as how I am a 23 year old female, but I wanted to see if anyone else has ever experienced the problems I have been having and if so is it connected to heart issues. For the past year I have been having "attacks" where I have either just awoken from a night's sleep, or been sedentary for a long period of time, but then all of a sudden a horrible feeling of nausea comes over me, I feel incredibly overheated, and my heart starts beating extremely fast. During some times, my heart will beat abnormally fast for more than 20 minutes but then other times it will only last a couple of minutes. I have been to a couple of doctors where I discussed this, but they all said everything with me is normal yet these episodes keep happening and are becoming more regular, often causing disruptions in my life. I have never smoked and am not overweight. The fact that these keep happening is leaving me freaked out that one day something very bad is going to happen.
If anyone could shed light on this I would be most appreciative.

[dancingheart]

Hi, I too have the same problem with mornings when I first wake up and ESPECIALLY taking showers, I have to take a tepid one to keep my pulse around 99-106.  In the morning I used to vomit with my episodes, waking up with 115 pulse. I used to get woken up from a nights sleep with 160-170.  Since I have taken Beta Blockers and Anti-anxiety medications before bed...the problems are considerably less.  Oh, and I don't do well with naps either.  I have only been experiencing this since just before Thanksgiving last 2008.  Most all my doctors says that it is Sinus Tachycardia, brought on my anxiety...from an hypersensitive sinus node.  I am 41 and non-smoker, and kind of a sedentary person.  Trying to get back on my feet from this. I hope that you'd bring this up to your doctor so that they can run some simple tests. Best of luck.

[jimgreg]

i  have the same thing..not every night..but last night i fell asleep in the computer chair for like 3 hrs..then at 5:30 am  went to bed..i notice my heart rate was up..i took my blood pressure was 140/70 pulse 93..witch isint that high..but all the same it felt like it was higer then that.ITS A SYTOM OF ANXIETY..YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY OPROBLEMS WITH IT.BUT THAT MORE THAN LIKEY WHATS WRONG..THEN IT GOES AWAY DONT IT??....IM 46 TAKE MEDS FOR B.P. SO I CHECK MINE ALOT..BUT  LIKE YOU SAID YOUR 23..IM 46   TWICE UR AGE..+ I TAKE ANXIETY MEDS EVERYNIGHT..WHEN I TOOK A DOSE AT 6:AM IT WENT AWAY..SO  MINE WAS ANXIOUS..GOOD LUCK TO YOU.....FEEL FREE TO MAIL ME..JAMES

[Jules09]

Thanks for your help.
My symptoms are pretty regular and reproducible. They seem to occur most often within 15 or so minutes of waking up in the morning after a restful night's sleep, and coming out of the shower. Every time they come on, I have been doing nothing strenuous or stressful. It just gets to be bad because I literally feel on the verge of vomiting but nothing ever comes up for real.

I don't know if there would be any connection here, but I get horrible headaches at least once a week, sometimes more, and they are usually centered on one side of my head, sometimes directly in the back of my eye. I also am constantly tired even after I have slept 8 hours a night continuously.

[Wisconsin2007]

Offhand, with the reading I've done because of my own situation, I could make a couple uneducated guesses as to what the problem might be, but I think what might be more valuable would be to suggest you have a Holter monitor test.  

Are your symptoms pretty regular and reproducible?  If not, an event monitor might be better, as there's a better chance of capturing the problem (though for some reason, with my own docs, getting them to part with the event monitor seems difficult).

Ultimately you'll want to get someone to conduct some tests to begin the process of figuring out what problems you may or may not have.  

Good luck!