Post MI-CABG and profuse sweating/Nausea/low body temp/pulse rate

I'm 9.5 yrs post-op/post MI. Since I started doing household chores, I am soaked to the point I have to take a shower immediately after I finish any of them. If I clean out the refrigerator, I sweat, if I vacuum, wash the dishes, cook, sweep the floor, I start dripping. I look like I just took a swim in a pool and was underwater. My hair is soaked, my face is soaked and my clothes stick to me. I never really thought of this as problematic, thinking it was normal, because one doctor told me it was - I guess - he shrugged his shoulders.

I never asked another doctor thinking it was just me. This happens in the winter as well as the summer.

Does anyone else have this problem? No pains, no chest pain, no nausea, just sweat dripping off me.

I also wake up some mornings with nausea, but it goes away after a few minutes. I take my morning meds as soon as I wake up. (Aspirin, Cymbalta, Digoxin and Atacand.) Is this angina?

Reading another post, I understand low body temps are a precursor of heart failure??? I have low body temps when my BP goes way down to 90 over 40 at rest. Am I doomed for heart failure now?

Pre-HA I had a pulse rate from 80-90, which is normal. Post HA I had a pulse rate of 60. The doctors were happy with that. Now it's back up to 70-86. No one has said a thing about it, but I wonder if this is okay or is something brewing? I also am getting premature beats at night while lying down again. I had those since I was 20 and was diagnosed then with prolapsed mitral valve. Oddly enough, when my surgeon looked for it, he said my valve was totally normal! Here I was taking meds before dental work for 30 yrs +! Stupid, stupid doctors in Florida. Can't even read an echo right.

NO offense against Florida, I used to live there, but the docs there aren't too swift. I know I worked in the ER with a lot of them. I had high cholesterol there and no one bothered about it. I kept going to the doc for runs of premature beats during work and he kept saying, it's nothing. Put me on strong meds but they didn't work. Never a word about cholesterol and CAD. He put my husband on cholesterol meds, but not me. Interesting how that worked.. like women can't have HA's. It wasn't til after my HA, I saw my chart from him and found out. How sad, my HA could have been prevented years before by meds and diet.

Before I run off at the mouth, any ideas about my questions?

TIA
Lynn

By martzj
Posted September 28, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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Hi Lynn and welcome to you,

My, you have a whole 'platter' of weird things to deal with don't you.

I'm not a doctor but I can offer what these symptoms mean for me.....heart electrical hijinks. Arrhythmias, dropped beats, racing heart beats followed by erratic slow ones. This can create sweats, even drenching sweats no matter what the weather. Beta blocker Coreg helps a lot with this.

Have you had your thyroid checked lately?

I was turned away during heart attacks by doctors too....looking back, all of them could have been prevented. I was 41 when the almost deadly one slammed hard enough to get me into an ER surgery.

I hope this is helpful in some way.......we all know how isolating and frustrating heart issues and medical system beliefs can be for women.

Jaynie

By Asurvivor
Posted September 28, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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Hi Jaynie,

Thanks for the response and welcome. Actually none of these occur when I'm having any atypical beats. The sweating is most bothersome to me. It makes me feel as if I ran two miles.

I'm on Synthroid for my thyroid. They discovered that after my MI, so it's been over 9 years taking that. I also take Toprol 50 mgs once a day to help stop the asystoles.

I'll survive and if I don't, oh well. lol I really never had anyone to talk to about this before who may understand why I'm grouchy or feel sick. Thanks for your kind words.

By TinGirl
Posted September 28, 2009 at 6:58 pm
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Welcom, Asurvivor,
I have many of the same concerns you have, especially the sweating. I sweat mostly early in the morning and sometimes at night. I also sweat profusely when I do any house work, or exercise, or have any nervousness or anxiety. I am real fun at the mall. The sweating does interfere with my life because people who do not know me think I am having some type of attack. The sweat runs off of my forehead down into my eyes and then drips onto my clothes. Anything I wear gets really wet. It is one of the many reasons I had to stop working, after my CABGx3 three years ago.

I have talked to my internist and my cardiologist about this and they both are uninterested. I am over weight and I am trying to lose. If you find some answers please let us all know. I take Cymbalta, Plavix, metoprolol, aspirin, triglide, and avapro.

By hipmama42
Posted September 29, 2009 at 5:26 am
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I'm a sweater too. I've been peri-menopausal for years and now well into menopause. I've blamed a lot of my sweating on hormonal fluctuations, and I am still not sure how much is because of hormones, and how much due to heart and circulation issues. i also have the PVC's and missed beats, with a high pulse and bp the minute my bp meds and diuretics and beta blocker start to wear off. Then I go to do a little housework, or just try to carry a few groceries into the house and put them away and whew! I'm drenched in sweat, even though I was freezing cold when I went out into the cool fall air, and had to even have the heater on in the car when I first got in it!
It's hard to know how to dress for the weather and also predict how much I will sweat when I am, say, in the checkout at the Wal-Mart after shopping.

This past summer I could not take the heat and humidity at all without sweating and wilting. It would then leave me faint and short of breath, which sometimes also accompanies the sweating.
I figure some is heart related, some hormone related, and the rest, well, I just don't know. I don't get the sweats at night like I used to when I first started peri-menopause, but I now sweat with the least bit of physical exertion, it seems. I am always fanning myself if I am in a crowd when others are bundled up in sweaters and shivering.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem. I don't know what it means either, and it doesn't seem to be high on the list of worries for the cardiologists.

By Asurvivor
Posted September 29, 2009 at 3:57 pm
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Hi TinGirl - cool name! I get very warm in stores when at the mall, but so far I haven't sweated there yet, mainly because I walk very slowly and sit alot. I DO sweat when I try on any clothing. That is very embarrassing.

Hipmama - I went thru menopause in my late 40's and was on a hormone pill until I had my heart attack. I had night sweats then. Now I have day sweats!

I try to take my bp med in the a.m. and the beta blocker at night to even things out. They left it up to me when to take my meds. I wish I had help with that.
I don't see any correlation between my meds and the sweating though. It happens anytime I exert myself.

By Robinlynn
Posted October 13, 2009 at 10:59 am
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Hi Survivor,
I had gotten in a car accident and they told me I had congestive heart failure at the cleveland clinic. They believe my family doctor had me on too much thyroid medications and then the stress of the accident finished it off. My ef was 15% but is now 65%. I also have been diabetic for 30 years and have dystolic dysfunction stage one. I kept going for stress tests over the last few years but like you said, I 'm a women and they blew me off. I thought they would see me at least every six months. robinlynn

By Asurvivor
Posted October 13, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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If you take thyroid meds, Robinlynn, you should be having your blood tested at least every 3-6 months. I do.
Your EF is a lot better than mine is.

Be well
Lynn

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