Yesterday while watching a movie with my friend not feeling anxious at all I had this odd feeling I never felt before.
Friend took my pulse and my heart rate lying down was 114, I go to stand up and it sky rockets to 150, my friend insist on taking me to the hospital and when I get there, they instantly tell me its not normal for it to be that high and stay that high even with anxiety, after 5 hours under observation, my heart drops to 105 and they discharge me and let me go home, follow up with my primary care, well this morning I wake up it's still 115, so I decided to drive 50 miles to the VA and stroll in there with McDonald's and coffee, I smile and look at my doctor and say, can you please take my pulse? When she takes it her eyes get wide and she instantly tells me to stop eating and the next thing I know im being rolled over to the Emergency room, now mind you, this is the lady that said this is all in my head lol. I'm sitting at this point laughing, song Highway to hell is playing at this point in my head lol, I may die but I'm going out proving a damn point. We get to the ER and the docs there are confused, they started with the entire anxiety spew until they called in the staff Doctor for mental health who politely informed them that a heart rate from anxiety comes down after a hour max but doesn't stay elevated like mine, next thing I know the same cardiologist comes rushing in that told me on the 12th, that it was all in "my head" apologizing to me saying sorry she must had missed something, I was given a beta and now my heart rate is 80, I can sleep like this, no answer as to what this is but they all agree it's not anxiety now, lol I am loving it and hating it, this is proof doctors use the anxiety excuse way too damn much, when I have the administrator coming down to my bad apologizing then that means something is wrong..... I'll keep you all posted, other good news, no longer afraid of 120 lol beats per minute, stayed at that rate all day today lol.
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Armyguy, good for you in proving your point. I'm glad they are finally getting off the anxiety kick and looking further into what is going on. I can feel your mood change in just knowing you were right all this time. Let's hope they get you stabilized and keep you at a pulse of 80. Good Luck and yes please keep us posted as to where this all goes. Take care.
And did they check your blood sugar? After all, you were eating McDonalds! Glad you're finally getting some action. As soon as the Dr. can't figure something out, it's good old anxiety! Easy way out.....Ruby🌹
Armyguy, I think your persistence is paying off and you have proved that your fast heart beat is organic and not caused by anxiety though it understandably causes you anxiety. I for one was wrong in jumping to the conclusion that it was all caused by anxiety. Today I took my wife for her routine echogram to check her heart and whilst I was waiting I saw a little booklet published by the British Heart Foundation (I live in London) titled 'Heart Rhythms', I thought of you and read it through. Basically it said there are several reasons for fast heart rate but it's usually caused by disturbances to the electrical signals that regulate the heart. Tony Blair who was the Brit Prime Minister had this problem whilst he was in office and it was successfully treated. Correcting the electrical impulses can be treated by medication ( as appears to have happened in your case when you say you were given a betablocker that brought your heart rate down) or by a procedure called Catheter Ablation which I gathercis a form of micro surgery that permanently corrects the problem (this was what Tony Blair had).
However, there are 4 or 5 different variations of this condition but as you are still young I think yours is not likely to be among the more serious causes, but either way all variations can be treated.
Now, it only takes about 10 minutes to read this booklet and the British Heart Foundation us a very respected organisation over here. If you wanted I'm happy to post it air mail to you, if you do I'll tell you my e-mail address and then you could privately send me an address for me to post ittoo. Either way you've had a breakthrough, now you must keep up the pressure on the VA to treat it as an organic problem and not keep telling you it's anxiety.
Thank you so so much, don't feel bad, heck I didn't even know what it was. Its ok..... I have a cardiology appointment tomorrow, along with a electro whatever the guy is called so this is something they're looking at and I would love to read it!!! I hope your wife's appointment went well.
So my issue with the POTS diagnosis, if it is pots, when they give me a beta blocker, which works when I don't eat, I can just tell, when I eat it still goes up to the 120 if I've taken the beta blocker or not, my mom was in cardiology for years and she even said that, if it was POTS it would come down regardless if I ate or not, so that tells her it's not anything with the heart that is wrong, something digestive is messed up seeing that this only happens when I eat.
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Not a good night for the first time in ages!
Scared of panic attacks
Split second dizziness 
Went to a cardiologist and everything OK but still feel palpitations
Anxiety is just horrid 
