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225237 tn?1333138999

Heart racing

Last night I was trying to fall asleep when all the sudden I could feel my heart pounding..   I checked my pulse it was 130, so I laid down an tried relaxing an after an hour my heart rate went down to 104.  What could it be??  Should I be worried??   My heart rate is usually in the upper 90.
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225237 tn?1333138999
My doc said if I experience it again she will do some testing but she thinks it may be from my anxiety.  So I'm praying I don't experience it again.
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995271 tn?1463924259
Yes that's a faster than expected rate for what was going on.   There's a bunch of different things that can cause the same set of symptoms and the only way to tell what is going on is an EKG.
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