fast heart rate while resting

My daughter sometimes experiences a fast heart rate while resting. It usually lasts less than 30 seconds. No problems with dizziness, fainting , or shortness of breath. She says it just feels like her heart is beating faster. No skipped beats or chest pain. She has a congenital heart defect and had a fontan 18 years ago. This is her 4th pacemaker with this pacemaker was put in May 29th. It is an epicardial pacemaker. Anyone else with this experience.

3 Comments

Self test

by ElectricFrank - 2012-09-13 02:09:53

Could be the pacer going through it's threshold calibration. Depending on make, model, and programming this could be any time of day, but they usually set it to be during sleep. Mine is set to "Day at Rest" which means it waits til I'm relaxed and my HR is low. Then it goes through its thing where it is paced 100% at 85 or 100 for a short time.

For some reason they never mention this to patients.

frank

CHD and arrhythmias

by golden_snitch - 2012-09-13 03:09:01

Hi!

It's not uncommon for CHD-kids to develop some kind of arrhythmia. They have lots of scar tissue in their hearts, and sometimes what one might call a "scar-reentry" develops, a tachycardia (fast heart beat) that uses a reentry-circuit that developed due to the scar tissue. A friend of mine had Fontan surgery, too, and now has a bad case of atrial flutter. He's on anti-arrhythmic drugs.

As long as she's not symptomatic, this will most likely not require treatment. But I'd mention it when she has her next check-up.

Best wishes
Inga

hi

by Kait127 - 2012-09-19 01:09:02

My heart used to slow down. I also had a new pacemaker implanted in may. Turns out I have an arrhythmia. So its for sure something you might want to get looked at. But im sure its nothing. Dont worry too much because anxitey can only make it worse. good luck.

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