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give me some hope please! :(
Just like everyone else, Im scared. I've always had a higher heart rate then most, dr's never said much until in my late teens when I was diagnosed with anxiety. Never took meds for it or anything. It would go away for a year or years and then come back. I suffered pretty bad. In my late twenties Iearned to control with breathing and other exercises. My HR wouldn't get to high..maybe 125 at the most, but only last a short time. Well anyway, this past weekend I was out to dinner and afterwards while driving home my heart just started racing and it felt like it was pounding HARD. Never had that, not even while working out. Went to ER and they gave me that med that they Push fast through an IV and it almost stops your heart to bring it back to normal. They did it twice! Then they gave me anxiety meds and a beta blocker... I was a total zombie but my HR did come down, but it took maybe a good 45 min to get into the 90's. They took blood, ekgs, etc and sent me home. OMG! I slept the next day. I couldnt even walk. I read alot of posts on here about people having these rapid heart beats, but they just waited them out??? My ER doc said you can die from it and that is why they jump started my heart. It was a horrible experience. Its like you die for six seconds. I just cried. I still cry. I had a follow up visit to DR. did another ecg and more blood work. Got to wear a holter next week,and in two weeks do a stress test. I started on beta blockers today. Metropol? The first couple hours I felt bad..then it kinda just was fine. But at first it did feel like it made it hard to breathe..but figuring that was my anxiety..cuz i HATE meds and I held that pink pill in my hand for a hour before I actually stuck in my mouth. My dr. told me I HAD to take it!! I felt I had no choice. I took it at 530pm though which was a mistake cuz i have to take it twice a day..and im thinking at least ten hours apart?? So, Im not gonna take another one until 9am...and next at 9pm so I can get on that schedule. I hope nothing happens inbetween that time of when Im supposed to take it 530am-9am. It was my first dose, so im thinking it will be ok. sigh* Dr.s do NOT give you enough info!! Ok, so I haven't been able to sleep now. Been up all night. SCARED to sleep because of this. I try to relax but I cant, its bad and all i want to do is cry. So if anyone can give me some glimpse of hope that would be great. And what do u think of having to get that IV push that pauses your heart to get it back to norm? anyone else have that? Its HORRIBLE. I need advice on how to live a positive life again? I feel like Im a ticking time bomb. Please help! Thank you! xoxo
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Thank you for your comments. I appreciate them all. I haven't slept in two days. I want to, but when I lay down I feel like my HR goes down really low and I start to freak out and i sit up. I get this feeling like im in a car going over a small hill. lol if u know what I mean. I know it's prob nothing and I know my body has to get used to the meds. But Ive never taken meds for anything!! I don't even take pain killers unless I am in alot of pain. So, this is tough for me. I wish I could go to the hospital and get hooked up to the ekg, just so I can go to sleep....and if my hr got to low it would beep. Ha!
Thanks again. And don't worry about any grammer mistakes. My meds make me so loopy I don't know what Im typing half the time. :)
Thanks again. And don't worry about any grammer mistakes. My meds make me so loopy I don't know what Im typing half the time. :)
For over a year ive had palpitations and at first no one could find anything wrong. Then during my next trip to the hospital they found that I had wolff parkinson white syndrome. I had to have an ablation done to get it fixed. The ablation was successful. Then a few months later during this past summer I started feeling it again. I was scared I cried and me being a college student I didnt know where my future led. I went to the ER while in school and they couldnt find anything. After a second time to the ER with no result, I went to my cardiologist and she almost told me the same thing and she said I needed a stress test and they found that I had an atrial tachycardia which required another surgery. I was scared, probably not as scared as my mother who was with me. I also had to take metoprolol until which does work. I just had the ablation on february 15th. Im still healing and still have my good and bad days but I know that this will be successful and I will need no more surgery. Believe me I know the feeling of being scared and frightening, very uncertain of whats going on, and thinking that your going crazy. Realize that your not and realize that your not and that it could be anything and that it will be found out. Once they find youll be on the right road to getting health again. I hope this helps and I hope they figure it out soon god bless.
what kind of encouragement? no matter what is wrong with you, you can make it through - not sure what else kind of encouragement we can give since you don't have a diagnosis or know what's wrong, we don't know what's going on and we may tell you you're fine when you're not...
sorry don't know what else to say except sorry you're going through this...chin up, stay strong and take your meds as your dr described and let us know how you're doing.
it's great they're following up with testing and not brushing you under the rug as is done with many arrhythmia patients.
sorry don't know what else to say except sorry you're going through this...chin up, stay strong and take your meds as your dr described and let us know how you're doing.
it's great they're following up with testing and not brushing you under the rug as is done with many arrhythmia patients.
were you told to take one metoprolol every 12 hours or 2x/day. 5:30am and 5:30pm works.
They have not given me a diagnosis. Odd thing was when I went to ER, my HR was 150 but I overall felt ok. No chest pain, no short of breath.
I am going to have a holter next week and stress test in two weeks. I just hope Im not taking these meds for nothing. If u can live with a high heart rate and an occasional irregular fast HR...ugh. I just dont know what, who to believe. :( Thanks for u comments. Eventhough I was looking for some encouragement. :(
I am going to have a holter next week and stress test in two weeks. I just hope Im not taking these meds for nothing. If u can live with a high heart rate and an occasional irregular fast HR...ugh. I just dont know what, who to believe. :( Thanks for u comments. Eventhough I was looking for some encouragement. :(
What type of tachy do you have? I read svt can be from 150-250 bpm and last for hours and most doctors dont blink--so why were you told you could die?
You need to go to a cardiologist outside an ER/A&E and have a full cardiac workup so you'll know exactly what you're dealing with and figure out what triggers you have.
anxiety can be a large part of your higher HR, even breathing faster could make it high - 125 seems high but it's not as high as some here - some get 300's, but even 120's is hard to deal with when you don't know what it is or causes it.
I've had just about every arrhythmia there is except AFib, my hr's and bp ride crazy roller coasters daily going from a normal 60 - 80 then it will bounce to 195 -200 for no reason...or if I move, sleep, eat, breathe... I've had roughly 50,000 pvc's and VT runs that drive me nuts...fainting, shortness of breath, chest pains - plus saddled with the dreaded diagnosis of "malignant" pvc's or polymorphic VT and no answers to why...my heart stopped when I had a tilt table test for my fainting, then it stopped again 3 times during surgery and I think it stopped 3 or 4 times before I had surgery in Jan - March 2009, and I made it through, the heart is very resilient and can withstand alot of abuse.
I had to have a pacemaker/ICD implanted which is a great thing to have if your heart is quirky like this - but I don't understand why the dr didn't want you to have one implanted if they said you could die from yours? That ticks me off they scared you like that and only gave you meds...did they at least tell you to follow up with a cardiologist or EP dr?
Calm your anxiety & stress down some, you don't need that if you're having tachycardia. Get your results from the ER you went to and go to a cardiologist and get a complete workup, EKG, Stress test, Echo, holter monitor etc and figure out what's going on and keep a journal of times, dates, symptoms and what you were doing at the time to see if you can find any triggers.
anxiety can be a large part of your higher HR, even breathing faster could make it high - 125 seems high but it's not as high as some here - some get 300's, but even 120's is hard to deal with when you don't know what it is or causes it.
I've had just about every arrhythmia there is except AFib, my hr's and bp ride crazy roller coasters daily going from a normal 60 - 80 then it will bounce to 195 -200 for no reason...or if I move, sleep, eat, breathe... I've had roughly 50,000 pvc's and VT runs that drive me nuts...fainting, shortness of breath, chest pains - plus saddled with the dreaded diagnosis of "malignant" pvc's or polymorphic VT and no answers to why...my heart stopped when I had a tilt table test for my fainting, then it stopped again 3 times during surgery and I think it stopped 3 or 4 times before I had surgery in Jan - March 2009, and I made it through, the heart is very resilient and can withstand alot of abuse.
I had to have a pacemaker/ICD implanted which is a great thing to have if your heart is quirky like this - but I don't understand why the dr didn't want you to have one implanted if they said you could die from yours? That ticks me off they scared you like that and only gave you meds...did they at least tell you to follow up with a cardiologist or EP dr?
Calm your anxiety & stress down some, you don't need that if you're having tachycardia. Get your results from the ER you went to and go to a cardiologist and get a complete workup, EKG, Stress test, Echo, holter monitor etc and figure out what's going on and keep a journal of times, dates, symptoms and what you were doing at the time to see if you can find any triggers.
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I have had almost every heart problem in the book; skipped heartbeats, abnormal rhythm, and most often, a very high heart rate. My heart has gone up to or over 200 beats per minute on multiple instances, and it has scared me to death. For a long period of time last year, I barely left my house for fear of what my heart would do. What I have learned from talking to my cardiologist, people on this site and others, is that our hearts are alot more resilient than we think they are. I have been told that a healthy heart can beat at over 200 beats per minute for days, even weeks on end with no trouble at all. Mind you, that doesn't mean that we should consider such a heartbeat normal; it's important to find ways to treat it. You may hate being on medication--I would, too--but it is going to help you once your body and mind get used to it. And remember, these symptoms won't kill you. There are so many things that affect the heart: blood sugar, hormones, and especially anxiety, that periodical abnormal rhythms are not really abnormal at all. When heart problems happen, they feel terrifying, but you're strong and you're brave. You can survive. There are so many people here, me included, who have been convinced that death is imminent and are still alive and well. You can get your life back.
Keep us posted on your progress, and take care of yourself! Cheers and best of luck.