High Heart Rate - 226 BPM ???

[BritNick]

Thanks for advice, Ian. I did get it checked out (24-hr and 7-day monitors, Electro- and Echocardiograms, consultations with heart specialists) but no action was required as the symptoms subsided each time within the timeframe required for the tests and consultations.

I forgot to mention the strange restless, breathless feelings I used to get as well, where I felt the need to keep taking deep breaths but they never satisfied me, while at the same time being physically rocked by my heart banging away in my chest, with frequent stops and multiple beats thrown in. It was the only time I was physically aware of my heart beating while at rest. That was a few years ago now, thank goodness.

[IanDarkpeak]

****************************Breaking News**************************

Latest on the heart Operation
just back from Cardiologists
DISCHARGED..... WHOOP

I'm now fixed....

[Tindersticks]

Excellent news Ian, really pleased for you mate.

[Mike T]

Agreed - that is really good news.

[Alexandra]

****************************Breaking News**************************

Latest on the heart Operation
just back from Cardiologists
DISCHARGED..... WHOOP

I'm now fixed....

I just picked up on this. BRILLIANT!!!

[geronimo]

****************************Breaking News**************************

Latest on the heart Operation
just back from Cardiologists
DISCHARGED..... WHOOP

I'm now fixed....

blimey, great news

[IanDarkpeak]

thanks every one. a bit surprised when I left. no more visits

heart does feel totally different. before it was "noisy and jerky" now it sounds like a finely tuned F1 engine

[Chris K]

After three ablations and a gap of four years, I decided to have another 'episode' last weekend during a long walk. With a resting pulse of around 150 (over cake break) the last two hours down Ennerdale were very hard. Phoned the hospital, yes come straight to A&E, which I did and got some immediate attention from some great staff and down to a mere 125. Sadly the system didn't let me me get 'zapped' for another 23 hours so ended up taking a hospital bed for two nights. Brilliant staff but a second rate management system. A scan and some tests to follow and on the plus side a few days enforced rest has allowed the cracked ribs to settle down. Very pleased to have been 'active' this weekend with no issues - except a lack of fitness!

[Alexandra]

After three ablations and a gap of four years, I decided to have another 'episode' last weekend during a long walk. With a resting pulse of around 150 (over cake break) the last two hours down Ennerdale were very hard. Phoned the hospital, yes come straight to A&E, which I did and got some immediate attention from some great staff and down to a mere 125. Sadly the system didn't let me me get 'zapped' for another 23 hours so ended up taking a hospital bed for two nights. Brilliant staff but a second rate management system. A scan and some tests to follow and on the plus side a few days enforced rest has allowed the cracked ribs to settle down. Very pleased to have been 'active' this weekend with no issues - except a lack of fitness!

No accident imo that it was during the cake break that AF kicked in. My AF always started at rest, in the middle of the night or early morning, until the most scary episode when it began as I sat resting alone by a mountain stream during a walk in the French mountains. Luckily I was not too far from a road, and was eventually able to hitch a lift down to the valley, but I didn't want to have every outing after that over-shadowed by the possibility of an AF incident, so I agreed to start taking the lowest dose of Flecainide twice daily. That was Autumn 2012 and I have had no episodes since. I still take the same dose of Flecainide, with no side effects that I can discern. It is considered a dangerous drug if one has a damaged heart, but happily the upside of being a runner is that my heart is fine.

[Chris K]

This time the AF brought on the decision to have a cake break - I hoped that resting may have proved that I was actually working hard, but I wasn't, until beginning the slog down the valley. I was on flecainide five or six years ago, but didn't get on with it for one reason or another, but you're right that thought of another incident is always there in the mind - it's a good job we're actually fit mechanically to take it!