Help!

[emcoll]

Hi guys,

I have no idea if I’m in the right thread but I need to start somewhere I guess?

I had an operation in Nov 2019 and when they brought me round, all the nurses and dr’s and everyone was in a massive panic because my heart rate was at about 180bpm. Nothing they tried brought it down and it was beating like that for about 14 hours. Eventually the next day it came back down to about 120bpm and they let me go home. Now the op was nothing to do with my heart, hence the confusion.

Ever since then I’ve had little flutters of palpitations, one a month at tops. But recently the past 6/7 months it has been awful. I’ve been having 5,6,7 sets of palpitations a day at least. The worst one to date has been when my heart reached 191bpm for over 5 minutes. I felt like I was gonna pass out, throw up, the whole thing.

I’m awaiting a cardiology appointment and I’ve been telling them all along what’s been happening, when the palpitations are etc, but they don’t really seem to give two. I was just wondering has anyone else experienced something like this? If it’s relieve at, my grandfather has had several heart attacks, my dad used to suffer with his but I’m not sure how he is now as I don’t speak to him much.

Can anyone suggest anything or help? Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks in advance

Em x

[lettingoffsteam]

A heart rate that high at rest is not good at all.It you get an attack like that you should ring 111 and get some advice or even 999 if you feel ill. Has anyone tried a 24 hour ECG on you yet?You need some evidence of your palpitations. I was getting palpitations but not so rapid as yours.I now take propranolol which helps a lot.I hope you get some relief from this soon.

[buddje]

1st thing is...yes....180..190.....

The faster it goes the more you panic...then you panic because its going faster and hey presto......vicious circle

Sooooo.........try to breathe steadily........lay down.......relaxing music....drop of lavender oil on pillow.....try to calm.

[buddje]

Could be a lot of reasons but try to be calm....not easy but then if you practice your heart will feel a bit better.

We re all a bit jittery just now but please ring 111 but try to breathe through it steadily...calm down....

[Shar28]

Sometimes having an anaesthetic is enough to cause a fast heart rhythm and as you found out it can settle itself within hours. One consequence of this experience is, quite understandably, anxiety which itself causes a fast heart rate. Perhaps in the meantime do two things: 1. keep a diary of how you’re feeling, together with any medicines you take, so you have a good record of symptoms to discuss when your referral to cardiology comes through.

2. Talk to your GP about your anxiety and ask for some counselling or CBT to help with it.

And try not to worry overly...easy for me to say and hard to do, I know.

Best wishes to you and your loved ones.