danb1983
Well-known member
Hey everyone,
I sheepishly return to the board after a long spell of absence, after promising to stick around. Truth is I didn't want to come back here because my recovery hasnt been the positive, easy return to health I was hoping for... quite the opposite...
My head is a mess with concerns about what actually should my heartrate be when doing different things - and this is why... I'll try and be quick.
I thought I had fully recovered and went on holiday to Thailand for 2 weeks - after a few days I went snorkelling, and in the water my heart started racing (210 a minute). I was taken as an emergency to the hospital where I was given amiodarone which calmed my heart.
However it did not fix the underlying rhythm issue in my heart. For the rest of my stay in thailand whenever I walked any deecnt distance or walked fast - or especially when walking upstairs my heart would go crazy - like fast, but very irregular, thumping beats, missing beats etc. It would calm down to 100 again - no lower.
It stayed like this for the next 6 weeks upon my return to England - always being 100 at rest and gonig crazy when walking up stairs.
I saw my doctor and started to take warfarin while continuing the amiodarone in preparation for a cardioversion.
1 day before the cardioversion my heart went back to normal. Better than normal - my heartrate went down to 80 at rest.
2 weeks later it went back to being crap again - the same - 100, then rising and irregular when walking upstairs etc.
This time only for 24 hours - then it went back, to a heartrate at rest which ranges from 75-85
I think exercise - in particular lifting weights and straining my chest and heart doing this are the trigger which led to all of these instances so this is something I will never do again.
Since then (3 weeks ago) I have come off the amiodarone, and my head is all over. My doctor has told me that she doesnt know if ill get better, or worse, whether I will be able to lead a normal life or not, what the problem is, and even worse, there isn't much to treat it.
I acn't stay on the amiodarone as I am young and would develop complications as serious on that. There is the chance to burn a "maze" into an area of my heart, but this may not fix the problem or may even make it worse.
I am basically hoping that it just gets better rather than worse... which it is, this hasnt happened again in 3 weeks, and I have stopped the amiodarone, but it takes a month to leave the body and I am terrified that without it I will go back to irregular rhythms.
Okay, were getting close to my question now. I have been walking every day and to start with my heartate came down from 95bpm while walking (I have a heart rate monitor watch) to 86, but in the last week it has gone back up to 92, and is stretching to 110 when walking up a gradient. I am only walking around streets in my town so I don't mean proper hills, just hills around town - small ones, but maybe a little steep here and there...
My question is what on earth should my heartrate be while walking? What is anyone elses? I am aged 26, slightly overweight - but still pretty normal, and I guess my fitness used to be good but due to a lot of inactivity over the last 8 months it is probably pretty low...
My heart is 80 sitting - sometimes after relaxing, deep breating, meditating a little it goes down to 70-75. However while walking around the house my heartrate is 85-90. When I go for a walk it is aprox 88, but rises up to 90-92 after walking up a little hill, and then stays there. It reaches 105-110, even a little more up longer or steeper hills, and then goes back down but my heartrate stays at 95ish for the rest of the walk...
I know I am developing an unhealthy obsession with my heartrate - can you tell But it is driving me crazy, I am going insane and can't stand the tension of waiting to see what ill be like over the next month and worrying about my heartrate constantly.
Any info to help calm my mind and understand if a 92 walking heart rate is normal or not would be of great help,
Many thanks,
Dan
I sheepishly return to the board after a long spell of absence, after promising to stick around. Truth is I didn't want to come back here because my recovery hasnt been the positive, easy return to health I was hoping for... quite the opposite...
My head is a mess with concerns about what actually should my heartrate be when doing different things - and this is why... I'll try and be quick.
I thought I had fully recovered and went on holiday to Thailand for 2 weeks - after a few days I went snorkelling, and in the water my heart started racing (210 a minute). I was taken as an emergency to the hospital where I was given amiodarone which calmed my heart.
However it did not fix the underlying rhythm issue in my heart. For the rest of my stay in thailand whenever I walked any deecnt distance or walked fast - or especially when walking upstairs my heart would go crazy - like fast, but very irregular, thumping beats, missing beats etc. It would calm down to 100 again - no lower.
It stayed like this for the next 6 weeks upon my return to England - always being 100 at rest and gonig crazy when walking up stairs.
I saw my doctor and started to take warfarin while continuing the amiodarone in preparation for a cardioversion.
1 day before the cardioversion my heart went back to normal. Better than normal - my heartrate went down to 80 at rest.
2 weeks later it went back to being crap again - the same - 100, then rising and irregular when walking upstairs etc.
This time only for 24 hours - then it went back, to a heartrate at rest which ranges from 75-85
I think exercise - in particular lifting weights and straining my chest and heart doing this are the trigger which led to all of these instances so this is something I will never do again.
Since then (3 weeks ago) I have come off the amiodarone, and my head is all over. My doctor has told me that she doesnt know if ill get better, or worse, whether I will be able to lead a normal life or not, what the problem is, and even worse, there isn't much to treat it.
I acn't stay on the amiodarone as I am young and would develop complications as serious on that. There is the chance to burn a "maze" into an area of my heart, but this may not fix the problem or may even make it worse.
I am basically hoping that it just gets better rather than worse... which it is, this hasnt happened again in 3 weeks, and I have stopped the amiodarone, but it takes a month to leave the body and I am terrified that without it I will go back to irregular rhythms.
Okay, were getting close to my question now. I have been walking every day and to start with my heartate came down from 95bpm while walking (I have a heart rate monitor watch) to 86, but in the last week it has gone back up to 92, and is stretching to 110 when walking up a gradient. I am only walking around streets in my town so I don't mean proper hills, just hills around town - small ones, but maybe a little steep here and there...
My question is what on earth should my heartrate be while walking? What is anyone elses? I am aged 26, slightly overweight - but still pretty normal, and I guess my fitness used to be good but due to a lot of inactivity over the last 8 months it is probably pretty low...
My heart is 80 sitting - sometimes after relaxing, deep breating, meditating a little it goes down to 70-75. However while walking around the house my heartrate is 85-90. When I go for a walk it is aprox 88, but rises up to 90-92 after walking up a little hill, and then stays there. It reaches 105-110, even a little more up longer or steeper hills, and then goes back down but my heartrate stays at 95ish for the rest of the walk...
I know I am developing an unhealthy obsession with my heartrate - can you tell But it is driving me crazy, I am going insane and can't stand the tension of waiting to see what ill be like over the next month and worrying about my heartrate constantly.
Any info to help calm my mind and understand if a 92 walking heart rate is normal or not would be of great help,
Many thanks,
Dan