Can anyone give me any ideas why my pulse has dropped by about 50% with no change in what I’m eating, drinking and doing.
Use to average a resting pulse of about 120 bpm but usually a lot higher.
No I’m lucky if it reaches this when exercising or stressed.
Jeff
Hi, can I ask are you taking any medication or such?
On stacks of meds. Which have been on for years. No new meds.
Perhaps your Atrials were in tachycardia causing some atrial pulses going through to the ventricles. In effect doubling your heart beat. Could be some type of atrial arrhythmia that has now resolved back to NSR.
Heart was check and angiogram done while pulse was all over and both were perfect according to cardiologist. My pulse would b 110 bpm at rest up to at worse 200+. The worse at walking would hit 150-180.
Now mines now in early 40 bpm at rest up to about 70-80 when walking.
So don’t know y it’s dropped massively.
Gp told me with problems I had heart failure with no cardiologist to back it up. Already had a heart attack and stroke back in 2008 in my 40’s. Even then the cardiologist told me there wasn’t a heart problem and gave me all clear on hearts and arteries were as clean as a whistle.
Another mystery to add to health problems.
I had heart bypass nearly three years ago and after three months was signed off as fit and well and ready to face the world. I was over the moon.
Before Christmas began to have serious hip pains but with Covid the waiting list to see specialist weeks away so Dr began prescribing pain killers until the pain manageable. Heavy pain killers until I began to get some normality back and now know the problem was three fused disks at bottom of spine - However - In October and because of volume of pain killers, Dr sent me for blood test, who rang me and said results were through and to expect phone call from heart clinic. Later the same day appointment to see specialist the next day.
As soon as I walked through the door he said to me I was in heart failure! Now to me at that time, HF meant I was about to shuffle off and should be in A&E. Then he began to explain and now waiting for pacemaker to begin to get a hold of my very slow and erratic heart beat.
What I am trying to explain though my experience is that just because one is over (like me) heart bypass other s**t happens and had it not been for the request for the blood test because of pain killer levels, I might never have known, which is far worse than knowing! As we grow older, you think you are over something where no sooner something else comes along and bites our bottoms.
There are more knowledgeable people here about HF, but my understanding of it is that the heart is unable to pump blood around the body properly and usually occurs because the heart has become too weak or stiff. It's sometimes called congestive heart failure although I believe that description is not used these days. From my blood test, my doctor knew what the problem was but wanted it confirmed by an expert. My doctor was just out of training and I am sure a more experienced doctor would have told me what was wrong but would still have referred me to a specialist.
All I believe in is that if I am still standing and "a going concern" and the specialists are looking after me, then I am in good hands. If your doctor has not referred you to heart clinic, suggest he does so quickly as he has a duty of care to do so. Perhaps the time for a face to face with Dr or even a different Dr within the practise. Hope this helps you.
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