Angina heart rate

[young85]

What heart rate to trigger your angina?

Does your heart rate have to get to 100bpm,

Or even higher like 130, 150 etc?

[IanGordon]

I believe the short answer is that it depends on what's causing the reduction in oxyginated blood supply to the heart via the coronary arteries. So angina symptoms can kick in at a variety of bpm levels. My personal experience was that as my aortic stenosis advanced, I experienced exercised induced angina symptoms at a lower bpm; 125 became 115 bpm by the time surgery was imminent.

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

Mine dropped to the 80 - 90 range as the angina became unstable. At that time four arteries were over 70% blocked, the worst was the LAD at 85%!

[young85 in reply to MichaelJH]

Did you ever get any kind of back pain? If you imagine where your heart is, but pain from the back? Doesn’t feel like a tightness etc, it’s just an uncomfortable ache, like a stomach cramp but in the back between the shoulder blades?

[MichaelJH Heart Star in reply to young85]

Mine was only pressure and pain in mid-chest accompanied by breathlessness. It depends on the individual and arteries affected. I had four with blockages the worse being the LAD (85%)!

[kel55]

hi, cardiac rehab noticed that when my pulse went over 96/98 l started having angina, as you can imagin it is not hard to go over this, so my life is slow. I have microvascular disease so my supply and demand is shot!