Elevated heart rate hours after exercise

Lifted pretty hard today and noticed hours later my heart rate was still in the 120s. It is 82 as I write this now, so glad it has gone down, but this is now 11 hours later. Normal for first few tough workouts after PM placement (6 weeks out from implant)?

Side note, I noticed I pushed PM to the point the 2:1 safety block kicked in and cut my heart rate in half near the end of the workout. I've had this part once before on the treadmill and they have since adjusted my upper-bound up. Surprised to hit it today lifting.

Any thoughts would be appreciated,
Ed

2 Comments

Something else wrong

by Selwyn - 2014-12-02 01:12:37

If your heart rate remains elevated over an hour after exercise you have some other problem. As Tracey says, seek help. Drugs such as caffeine and prescribed drugs may cause elevation. If you have excluded these, think of an underlying medical problem.

I am concerned that you should reach your upper limit ( I never have). If the upper limit is set correctly for your age, you are overdoing it. The idea is to keep fit, not to kill yourself!

PMs usually have 3 settings for offset of exercise ( fast, medium, slow). Mine settles down in about 30 seconds after exercise. These parameters can be set.

give them a call

by Tracey_E - 2014-12-02 12:12:50

That's an awful long time for your rate to stay up! Are you sensitive to caffeine? I can do one cup, but a second one will have my rate up for hours. The pm will only increase your rate if needed, or if you have av block (sounds like you do?) then it will simply keep the ventricles in sync with the atria. If you are going that fast, it's all you and unrelated to the pm.

If you hit the upper limit, they might need to raise your rate more, or possibly turn off the 2:1 feature. It's a safety feature for afib patients so if you have no history of afib they should be willing to turn it off. That's what I did. My upper limit was at the max (180) and sometimes I still bumped it. Pacing at 180 when your atria is doing 200 feels a lot better than 90! I try hard to stay under that, but it's not as crucial as when the 2:1 thing was activated.

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