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I was diagnosed with a mysterious tachycardia last year, coincidental to this headline: while I was living in Canada. At one point I checked into the ER with a
by hedayet 9mo ago
I was diagnosed with a mysterious tachycardia last year, coincidental to this headline: while I was living in Canada.
At one point I checked into the ER with a resting heart rate around 200 BPM, and on some days my smartwatch couldn’t even detect a pulse because it was racing so fast.
I eventually recovered-though I still avoid wearing smart devices because seeing my heart rate triggers anxiety-but the whole period ended without a root cause and with me just being put on heartrate reducers for a while.
I really feel for anyone dealing with "mystery" medical conditions. It’s a tough place to be.
- whatsupdog 9mo agoHow many COVID shots did you get? I noticed my resting heart rate go up after the first one. So I never got another one.
- nucleardog 9mo agoWhen your immune system activity increases, generally so does your heart rate. It's fairly common to get sick and have an increased heart rate. A quick search for "heart rate when sick" will turn up a number of results explaining this, the mechanisms behind it, and more. Sorry you missed out on simple, effective preventative health measures because of this misunderstanding.
- whatsupdog 9mo agoIt lasted over 6 months. My resting heart rate has been 52 for over 2 decades. Months after the shot it was up to 75 and stayed there for over 6 months. Slowly crept back to 52.
- Retz4o4 9mo agoOr Covid itself.
- konschubert 9mo agoAn immune response to any trigger temporarily increases the heart rate.
- hedayet 9mo agoI got two. But these events started to happen 4 years after my last shot.
- rsynnott 9mo agoCOVID vaccines (and various other vaccines), often cause flu-like symptoms for a day or so; you should've been warned about this at the time. Pretty much anything that gives you a fever will boost your heart rate a bit.
- silisili 9mo agoHa, same! The first time I noticed it, coupled with palpitations, I thought I was dying and went to the ER. I swear nobody teaches you how to get older, so everything feels like something is going way wrong. They treated me like a baby, said avoid caffeine, and maybe see a cardio. And I did. He was an old guy, didn't seem at all worried. He said he worked in pro sports and a surprising number of people have it, including top athletes, try not to worry too much about it. It's been nearly 10 years and I'm still kicking so I guess they were right. But to this day I avoid smart watches/rings, because I know it'll be nothing but anxiety inducing alarms.
- matwood 9mo agoDid you get an EKG? Do you have it documented somewhere this issue randomly occurring is your 'normal', that's easy to share if you have an actual cardiac event? The reason I ask is I have a sternum pectus, so my EKGs can be odd. My cardio said I'm fine, but I should keep my odd EKG on my phone to show any doctors if I have an actual cardio event. Otherwise they may end up chasing something that isn't the issue.
- silisili 9mo agoGood idea. I don't, but hopefully I or my wife is around to tell them. What's funny, or depressing depending on how you look at it... when I told my dad the terrible news, he said 'oh yeah, that's been happening to me for years.' Like I mentioned, nobody, including my parents, seem to teach you about getting old...which is terrible for anxious people like myself.
- vasco 9mo agoFinally a useful application of a tattoo
- maxbond 9mo agohttps://xkcd.com/933/ https://xkcd.com/933/
- SyzygyRhythm 9mo ago
- Retz4o4 9mo agoCovid.
- femto 9mo agoOr POTS, which can be caused by covid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postural_orthostatic_tachycardia_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postural_orthostatic_tachycard...
- M95D 9mo agoAt 200 BPM the cause should be clearly visible on EKG. Examples: https://en.my-ekg.com/arrhythmias/supraventricular-tachycardias.html https://en.my-ekg.com/arrhythmias/supraventricular-tachycard...
- on_the_train 9mo agoFun story to add: I can't get my heart rate measured. I get so nervous about it that I immediately double my heart rate. Of course it's impossible to communicate that with doctors. One even equipped me with a 24h heart monitor. Only to have my stupid brain go on overdrive and clock my heart at 120+ for the entire time, with 0 sleep. I literally fainted when getting ekg cables on me. I now have on record a heart condition without having one: I just get nervous from measurements lol
- matwood 9mo agoIt's jokingly called 'white coat syndrome'. Any doctor who has a clue should understand this.
- djmips 9mo agoIt's has similarities to debugging intermittent problems in software which many of us are familiar with. Heisenbugs. Heisen-medical issues.