Heart Problems?

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The cardiologist said that while taking drugs called beta blockers there's little point in using a HRM because the beta blockers limit HR and from that point heart rate is meaningless, so I don't.

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That's a really good point. All the Maximum Heart Rate etc guff for fitness assumes no chemical intervention.

 

[ColinJ]

At 28 I was diagnosed with a heart block which meant my heart would just stop when it felt like it causing me to pass out. I had a pacemaker fitted and all is well again.
Ive had it 10 years now and due a change within the next couple of years. I was just told to take it easy to start with and to build up slowly listening to my body. Now at 38 I can push my heart rate up to and hold at 195bpm with no issues and it will return to a normal bpm at a good healthy rate. My pacemaker prevents my heart rate dropping below 50bpm. It was originally set at 60bpm but this prevented me sleeping at night as I have a low resting rate.

That's interesting ...!

I have had a history of fainting when under stress, such as having teeth pulled or painful injections, and I always just put it down to being a wimp. My RHR when I was fit was 34 bpm and even now after illness and losing a lot of fitness, it is only about 55 bpm.

I had never heard of heart block. When I had my pulmonary embolism last year, the doctors did tell me that something didn't look quite right on the ECG, and I have had some rhythm problems since then but they told me that they thought it was caused by the large clots pressing against the side of the heart. They did an ultrasound scan of my heart to take a look at what was going on and I have had a couple of CT scans as well.

If things stop improving, I will have to get them to check my heart again.

 

[pawl]

I had open heart surgery in July Aortic valve replacement and bi pass at the age of 72 .
I was advised that I could use the Turbo but not ride on the road until the Sturnum had healed.After 8 weeks I was allowed to go out on the road.
The rehab team advised a max HR of 148 BPM i believe this was calculated by age so unsure how accurate this is.The max HR I have recorded is 132 this was going uphill.

Current mess are Aspirin Beta blocker and Ezeterol which is a substitute for Statins.

I am currently managing an average of 14 MPH. My target is to average 15 to 16 MPH.As part of my rehab I also did long undulating walks of 2 hours.
Stick at the exercises Doc .Take your time and build up slowly .

 

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That's interesting ...!

I have had a history of fainting when under stress, such as having teeth pulled or painful injections, and I always just put it down to being a wimp. My RHR when I was fit was 34 bpm and even now after illness and losing a lot of fitness, it is only about 55 bpm.

I had never heard of heart block. When I had my pulmonary embolism last year, the doctors did tell me that something didn't look quite right on the ECG, and I have had some rhythm problems since then but they told me that they thought it was caused by the large clots pressing against the side of the heart. They did an ultrasound scan of my heart to take a look at what was going on and I have had a couple of CT scans as well.

If things stop improving, I will have to get them to check my heart again.

The way it was found was by firstly have a 24hour ecg monitor, This didn't really show anything so I got sponsored by the hospital to have a reveal device fitted.
http://www.medtronic.com/patients/fainting/device/our-insertable-cardiac-monitors/reveal-icm/
Then each time I had an episode I had a remote control to activate a time stamp on the device along with a recording of my heart. 60 seconds before I pressed the button and 60 seconds after. I still have the device, the hospital let me keep after it was removed from my chest.

 

[ColinJ]

The way it was found was by firstly have a 24hour ecg monitor, This didn't really show anything so I got sponsored by the hospital to have a reveal device fitted.
http://www.medtronic.com/patients/fainting/device/our-insertable-cardiac-monitors/reveal-icm/
Then each time I had an episode I had a remote control to activate a time stamp on the device along with a recording of my heart. 60 seconds before I pressed the button and 60 seconds after. I still have the device, the hospital let me keep after it was removed from my chest.

Interesting!

Mine is definitely stress-related because I have always been undergoing some unpleasant procedure or other at the time. One exception was when reading a very graphic description of damage done to a body by severe illness, which caused me to flake out just by me imagining suffering from it!