I'm sick of it all....

[Armyguy]

So I went to cardiology, let me tell you What a f@*!&ng joke and waste of has that was, looking to buy private insurance because the V.A. can't be trusted with serious issues and I now know why the old vets say that.

So what happened and what is going on today

So I noticed when I eat, 30 mins after I eat my heart litterally races, and races for up to 4 hours sometimes 5 after I eat...... I'm talking about standing 120 to highest I've seen 136, sitting around 100 and lying down 90 to 100....

I can duplicate this every day, and from I have read it's not normal....

Not that high at least from what I read, now I have EKGs, echo, stress test, monitor, blood work all in the last 10 months and my test all show clear but they have no answer for my issue and keep saying it's just anxiety, well half the f@#!ing time I'm not anxious and that excuse and reason is really getting old. If I was anxious ALL the time then yes id accept this but I'm laying here playing PS 4 with the kids laughing and I feel my heart pounding and I check it, it's 106 laying down but that's normal........

I am lost on what else to do..... Just want to give up and scream at something or punch something.

The cardiologist at Veterans was like we are not blowing you off at all and we looked over your er notes and they think it's anxiety and we agree and I said really??? Will you at least run a test and let me show you what im talking about???? They told to just go home and continue cbt.

[rubyred777]

Hi Armyguy, I have been checked out by cardiologist also. All's good, he said. I was happy about that! You should be too. What I wanted to say, is my heart beats fast after I eat also. I think we should be looking at our blood sugar. I haven't checked it out good yet. That's what I'm thinking, is going on. Hang in there, Armyguy. 😁😁 Ruby🌹

[Jeff1943]

Armyguy, I can only tell you what I think, you've had a lot of tests and seen quite a few doctors and if they all say it's anxiety well, you can be sure it's anxiety. As they say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's probably a duck. If as seems likely it's anxiety you don't actually have to feel anxious at the moment the speeding pulse happens, people with other symptoms find they can suddenly strike at the least expected times. It's because stress can cause sensitisation of the nervous system and that stays with you until you shake it off, so you may not feel anxious all the time but thehigh pulse rate can still happen any time.

So how do you shake off nervous sensitisation? You just accept the symptoms it causes, completely accept them, don't let the first fear cause second fear, break the vicious circle. I'll say that word again because it's so important - accept. Then eventually you stop worrying yoursekf to death, your nervous system recovers and the pounding heart rate stops. By the way, the heart can withstand fast beats such as you mention without and damage and although your heart beats are higher than normal they're only marginally higher though you're intensely aware of it.

Soldiering is a stressful job at the best of times. With respect to Rubyread I don't believe that high blood glucose level causes fast heart beat, never heard of that. The other reason I think it is anxiety is...you've found your way to an anxiety forum to discuss that, maybe you're trying to tell youself something.

This will pass, you are not going to have a heart attack over this, it is anxiety and you overcome it by Accepting it. Take care and good luck.

[Jeff1943]

It's me again, Armyguy, I just read a previous posting you made, the fact that you have two children who you can only see periodically because of the break up with their mother is reason enough to start anybody's heart racing with anxiety. I know you're a soldier and you're taught to be brave and strong but even soldiers are made of flesh and blood.

Ending it all which you have referred to is something you will never do, you wouldn't do that when you have kids, it's not an option. You will soldier on and eventually beat this health problem no matter how long you've had it. I'm an old timer, over seventy, so I've had time to work out the meaning of life. We're here to evolve into a higher form and we achieve that by having shit thrown at us and surviving it, that which does not destroy us makes us stronger and all that, nobody escapes these tests. Of course, we get time to warm our hands round the camp fire, it's not non-stop stress all the time. But you are going through one of them testing times.

Your goal us recovery from your high heart beat which is undoubtably caused by stress and building good relationships with your children despite the problems and helping them grow up as happy well-adjusted adults, you're not going to abandon them leaving them wondering why their dad isn't there any more. If you think this is moral blackmail well maybe it is.

So I repeat, you will recover through Accepting, you've tried it and given up because it wasn't the quick fix you want I know but you mudt persevere and be prepared to let time pass. If you haven't already read it get a fopy of 'Hope and help with your nerves' by Claire Weekes, it will give you reassurance, you will recognise yourself in its pages and it spells out how to achieve acceptance. I know it's not a book title you'll want other squaddies (U.K. term) to see you reading but they don't have to see you reading it.

Don't give up on yourself, Armyguy, cause you have friends here who care because we've been through the shite too and we're not giving up on you, things are no way as bad as it looks to you, anxiety has a way ofvturning molehills into mountains.

[Agora1 in reply to Jeff1943]

Jeff1943, beautifully said.

[Katlinma78]

What did they think about the postural tachycardia syndrome possibility? Even if they don't think it is, some of the simple treatments on this page e.g. drinking more fluids, doing more exercise do no harm anyway and could do some good if there is an element of that in your symptoms?

nhs.uk/conditions/postural-...

[Peacewithin1]

That happened to me before with the heart racing, I also felt off balance and they said I had a spike in my sugar. I don't have diabetes Thank God, I'm my normal height and size for my age group, but that was a sign that I should start watching what I eat.