Exercise and Heart Rate

While exercising yesterday, after only about 5 minutes, my heart rate shot up to 182 and stayed at 177 even though I had to completely stop to get it to go back down. My upper limit is set at 150. I monitor it but it NEVER went that high before. Taking the day off today from exercise since it did not feel so good.

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Same experience

by molasses27 - 2012-11-21 05:11:19

Mine did something similar a few weeks back - raced to 185 and stayed there even after I stopped exercising. I have an appt to wear a halter monitor for 24 hrs in January and do the same exercise then. I forgot to ask my cardiologist if I could go back to class before then, so my family doctor said she would caution against it and just stick with running till then.

But yeah it definitely does not feel good.

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by boxxed - 2012-11-21 11:11:49

Whoever is faster takes control of the heart. If your heart refuses to go no faster than 50, but your device is pacing @ 70, your heart beat will be 70 with the pacemaker in control....no matter what. Alternatively, if your pacemaker is set @ 50, but your heart is sending itself electrical signals to beat above it @ 70, your PM will do nothing but monitor as your sinus node dictates it's own pace. The PM cannot do anything (well...almost) to forcibly subdue a heart rate LOWER with pacing function.

So it sounds like your own heart took control, and went faster than your device's upper limit of 150 bpm. In that regard, it did nothing but watch and record as your own sinus node (or something else if it's an arrhythmia) dictated how fast your heart would beat.

It's something I would mention to your tech or physician, even if it's just in passing. How old are you? Depending on how old you are, this could be be important (or at the very least...) mildly relevant information. If you're 25, 177 isn't going to be terribly interesting and they will probably be looking to dismiss it. If you're 80, that can be a different story. There's never such a thing as telling a physician or tech TOO much information, even if it annoys them @ that moment.

Thanks

by Grateful Heart - 2012-11-28 09:11:24

For your responses. I am 100% paced and Have SSS and LBBB. My age is 55. Today I went to the gym and kept it under just under 150 by constantly monitoring it but it felt like I had to hold back on exercising some. I'll see how it goes the rest of the week.

Same experience

by engineeringden - 2012-12-17 01:12:10

Yes I have the same issue. I have figured out that it has to do with being sedentary and then becoming active too quickly. I had a pm installed in April for Badacardia and it is set to 50, no other algorithms are turned on. I have prior to this run 1/2 marathons at below 1:50 consistently and still run 4 times a week approx. and I am 65. If I do not start my running slowly my heart may immediately sky rocket to 155-165. My initial Solution was to start slowly for 10 - 15 minutes and then take the pace up. By slowly I mean very slow jog <16 minutes per mile or brisk walk. I noticed that if I had an active day working say in the garden or anything being quite physical these symptoms happened less or not at all on the day I run. Now in December the symptoms are still happening but perhaps the racing is not quite as bad. I am still not up to a 1:50 marathon pace but will try to get there over the winter. It is a slow grind but I am hopeful.

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