Got my appointment

Finally got an appointment to see cardiology however last 24hrs had intense dizzy spells and heavy legs , anyone else get the heavy legs ? Really affects my walking

[Yumz199725]

Glad you have your appointment finally, sorry to hear about your dizziness and heavy legs sounds really scary, I understand about the dizziness though I have been having similar dizzy spells I'm having a blood test to see if I'm anemic. Hope your appointment with cardiologist helps shed some light on what's causing this!

[Hidden in reply to Yumz199725]

Hope you get some good news from your blood results and it's just a pill needed to help you x

[Yumz199725 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks hun I hope so too x I might need a different medication I will tell my consultant about it aswell so there aware of the affect verapamil is having on me.

[Teresarc in reply to Yumz199725]

I too have dizziness it’s awful

[Noodlesalad in reply to Teresarc]

Hi I too suffer from dizziness and my GP prescribed Betahistine which works for me. I don't know if it's suitable for everyone but it maybe worthwhile asking your GP.Hope you get some help.

[Chinkoflight]

I'm going to post screenshots of two runs on consecutive days, Mon/Tues this week here is the second run. I'll comment after.

Running stats

[Chinkoflight in reply to Chinkoflight]

I set off on both days with the pace aims for the distance. The average pace for the 5km run was 8:34 and the 7k run yesterday 8:40/km . This by most standards is quite slow I am 71 and only recently started running. You will see an unusually high HR the shorter run peaking at 184. I was aware I was feeling heavy legged, checked my watch, saw the HR and shortened my stride and eased back and quickly brought my HR down for the rest of the run. The longer run was more normal for me, and because the whole run felt normal I picked up the pace towards the end. 5k is my normal longer run and only occasionally do I do two runs consecutively like this. After the heavy legged experience it might have been precautionary to have a rest day but as you can see there were no problems. I have a LINQ device fitted and I'm trying to get a conversation with my cardiologist (although I am low priority) to see whether anything was noticed on this run with the high HR. I have no physical awareness of an Afib event or tachycardia. My normal state is bradycardia in sinus rhythm.My LINQ device is monitored by AI as I understand it and sends out reports if anything is unusual.

The point of my reply is, it is easy the more you know, to get more concerned and potentially worry.

But speaking for myself, I will always respond to specific advice related to specific information. But otherwise I'll take note of what is happening, listen to my body and my heavy legs, and do what feels right. Certainly I won't stop doing things that make me feel better about myself, including running and walking.

Throughout my life there are days when I have felt heavy legged, or said, that seems hard today!

It might be diet, hydration, too little exercise, too much exercise, a bit of congestion.... Post hoc always difficult to be certain.

The screenshot example above is me saying that was yesterday, this is today. I did go out again for a run and it was okay. Two days on the trot and I would have started to look for a pattern.

This is my example. Do keep listening to your body, get the clinical inputs, maybe try and get some of your own data and try hard to think positive.

Monday run

[Hidden in reply to Chinkoflight]

Thanks for your great Advice I noticed yesterday I was particularly exhausted so should have seen this coming I will in the future

[wischo in reply to Chinkoflight]

You do realise that 184bpm is way above your healthy max heart rate giving your age? irrespective of your health status and is likely to cause more strain on your heart and your overall body. I would get proper advice as to whether you should push your heart to these limits. You know the formula and your max safety HR is 149 although 90% of this is highly recommended as your max so 135bpm ish. Do not damage your body by doing something silly.

[Chinkoflight in reply to wischo]

Hi Weshko, thank you for your reply and the nudge! I agree about the peak heart rates which is why in another post I said I was seeking contact with either the consultant or EP as I have had no feedback on the LINQ implant apart from one call. It was a one off as I said and I backed off and it came back to my normal rates in exercise. It is a bit dependent on which measure you take about max heart rate but I try to keep rates below 150 and most of the time I am below 135 when I run. Today I had another peak similar to the Monday event, so as I said two events will raise my efforts to extract a response from the cardio team! I marked today's event on the LINQ device so it should produce a separate report back to the team if its significant. Up to now in 9 months the team have only reported one short Afib event back in May. I am fairly clear in my mind today was some form of tachycardia, I can't say much more than that. What was clear that it stopped suddenly and everything was back to normal and I completed my run with normal for me metrics.

After my stroke the tests/scans etc showed no abnormalities. This may be something new and I will get it checked out if only by going to my GP to push for a new referral.

I am concerned but as I have posted elsewhere running has helped me enormously and my levels of fitness and general health are measurably improved. I'm running for enjoyment, I'm not racing and have no ambition to say do a marathon etc.

I do appreciate your feedback and you are absolutely right to point out the high HR if not to me but to other readers too who may not fully appreciate the metrics.

[wischo in reply to Chinkoflight]

Hi Chinkoflight, hopefully it was just an SVT or something benign as I am sure it can not be serious or you probably would feel a lot worse than heavy legs if it was. Well done on your jogging and wishing you well in the future, bit of burnout methinks.

[Chinkoflight in reply to wischo]

Hi wischo, I had a call back from my cardio rhythm monitoring team today, I had also used the marker device to record an event that I picked up on my watch. So new news to me from this call was my tachycardia event is set at 158 by them and this hasn't triggered. The 'throw the watch away ' comment by some cardio 's is ringing !!!! However I had thought the event trigger marked the preceding 30 minutes on the LINQ device, but was informed it only records the preceding 30 seconds. By the time I clicked my HR had dropped to circa 120 which is what they saw! Don't throw away the watch?I know now that I have to press the button while the HR is actually high so I'll do a run ready to press and I'll set my watch alarm at 158.

But essentially they were saying all looks good having been prompted to look before calling me, so the exercise regime is definitely working.

I hope I won't regret writing that 😂

[wischo in reply to Chinkoflight]

No you will not, all the best with your runs.

[jayjay10000]

Hi There. I have been experiencing the same problems as you for awhile now. I get light headedness every morning, it comes on around 1030am, I told my doctor this two weeks ago and he told me to stop talking Propranolol at 10am to see what would happen. I have been doing this and iam still feeling light headedness. Once I was driving to the shops and it just came on, I think it's to do with blood pressure, dropping low or blood pressure to high. I get heavy legs when iam out walking. It's to do with not enough oxygen in the blood to support leg muscles when required, I don't know if low heat rate effects this as well. My HR is around 55BPM when walking. I hope you get sorted out soon.Take Care.

[JAVA12]

My other half gets the heavy legs feeling and yesterday read that it could be a side effect of bisoprolol.

[Dollcollector]

It could be water retention and your heart not circulating your blood efficiently. I get the same and the dizziness.