Heart rate 199

• By shamrock7
• Reply 3400205
• September 23, 2012 at 6:55 pm
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Jilleo, what medications are you presently on? Is this the first time your heart rate was so elevated? My only experiece with cardiac arrhythmia was two weeks after my bypass surgery my heart rate increased to 130. I was in what they call atrial flutter and spent three days in the hospital being monitored on a beta blocker called Betapace af. Ablation was mentioned also as a solution to the problem but I opted to try the medicine first. I now take betapace twice a day and have had no furter episodes. Hope this helps and I hope everything turns out well for you too. Shamrock

• By Jilleo01
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• September 23, 2012 at 7:36 pm
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Thanks for your reply Shamrock. Last night was the third time I've had my heart rate taken down by the needle at the Hospital. I do take a betablocker that is suppose to prevent this racing heart. I have a stent put in last Dec. Hugs Jill

• By Dpositive
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• September 24, 2012 at 1:41 am
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Hi Jill, I just had an ablation done two weeks ago at the University of Washington Regional Heart Center. They were fabulous there...my resting heart rate was between 125 and 160. They"zapped" my heart in 27 separate places, they went in through my groin and were able to run an arterial line in my left wrist while I was still awake. My heart went smoothly back into normal sinus rhythm when they used the defibrillator...and my heart is now beating between 60 and 78 beats per minute. The procedure wasn't too bad at all. It is difficult to lie completely flat for so long after recovery, but that was really the most trying part. I was also completely out for the ablation so I wasn't awake for my TEE either. Sore throat after for a few days, but manageable. They had me stay the night and let me go home the following afternoon because I was able and willing to give myself heperin injections in my stomach for 5 days afterwards until my coumadin levels got back up. I have an echo in about six more weeks to see if my ef has gone up. It was below 10%. If I am 35 or higher, I just have to stay on my meds. Under 35 and I have to have an ICD implanted and probably a pacemaker as well. Best of luck to you...I am really pleased so far with the results of my ablation. I still get exhausted, but the surgeons said that will take awhile. Hope all goes well for you, hang in there! Debbie

• By BadheartmuscleRussel
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• September 25, 2012 at 5:13 am
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My defibrillator kept shocking me because of a fast heart rate. I had an ablation of the AV node at the same time as they gave me my second pacemaker/defibrillator. It worked wonderfully. Before the ablation I was shocked 20 or 25 times. After the ablation I've been shocked only a few times and two of the shocks were because I had two broken lead wires. One broken wire was to the defibrillator and the other broken lead wire was to the pacemaker. They were Medtronic lead wires. That required a very risky double wire removal and two new replacement wires put back in. Only a few Hospitals will do wire removals because there so dangerous and it brings down the success rates of the Heart Surgery Units statistics. Thank God for Stanford Hospital and their Surgeons. Again the ablation helped tremendously. I hope this helps in your decision. Good luck.

• By Millie18
• Reply 3404041
• September 25, 2012 at 7:27 am
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The only thing I can suggest to you is : after I have episodes of my heart speeding up I feel like I have run a marathon. So think about it If you have been rushing around all day and your heart rate is increased its only natural you will feel tired. The heart gets tired too and needs time to recover. When I have a really bad episode It takes me weeks to get back to any type of normal. I too am on betablockers and they will make you feel tired as they slow the heart down. I am now on a very low dose and it has helped to make me feel less tired. Good luck with all the tests and treatment.

• By Jilleo01
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• September 25, 2012 at 1:44 pm
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Thanks everyone for your replies, I'm feeling nervous about having this ablation but I know realistically I can't live like this. I've missed out on many trips because I'm afraid of my heart racing while in a jet or in Mexico, Cuba or some other under developed country. Would they have the needle to stop the racing??? Millie I was so glad to hear it takes time for you to recover also. Today is the third day since the episode and I still feel a little whacked, I think a lot of it is nerves as well, I'm concious of the fact it might come back again and I won't be able to stop it without that horrible needle that stops your heart for 5-6 secs. Well I go Fri. for consultation, I'll report back as some as I can. Hugs to my heart friends

• By Millie18
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• September 26, 2012 at 4:21 am
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Jilleo go to Mexico! it has the best health care in the world....believe it... this is according to the W.H.O that is my informed information according to our european colleagues. Maybe if you just resign yourself that this "thing with your heart muscle" in SOME ways is out of your control and live your life with a little attntion to you strengts and listen to you body, but don't tune in to every little twinge especially if you are nervous. If something is going to happen it will and worrying about it wont help.......when it happens then you have to deal with it until then put it to the back of your mind and carry on as best you can. Be happy your frame of mind changes everything.