Posted by Chris M. on 5/16/2008, 6:14 pm, in reply to "Surgery canceled"
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I am relieved to hear you are OK, c.j.
To follow up on Lukes query, I can assure you my heart rate is always high when I just need to go in the Docs office for standard updates. I would suggest perhaps you check these mornings when you are not facing surgery and see if the heart rate is indeed in more normal range.
I've noticed many folks become concerned about higher heart rates when exercising too. We need to get our heart rates up when we are active to help supply circulation of increased blood flow.
Sometimes too, under stress heart rates climb...it shows that we are tightening up and anticpating concerns and the heart is preparing us for possible "fight or flight" and it's a way of protecting us...
You might discuss again with your Doc if it's "atrial fibrilation" which is a medical condition or just our repeated and overhealthy attitudes working to "save" us from what we are worrying about. I'm sure an "anticipator" with all the stress markers. I travel with plenty of oxygen, but always check twice "just in case".
I noticed that you alerted the medical folks at the time of the surgery prep that you had had high heart rates...thus it was deemed an issue to "rule out"- patient complains of an unusually high heart rate...cancel surgery.
I can tell you when I was having lung surgery my body was shaking from head to toe, and my heart rate was definitely up there for days...it's called scared, in my situations. Signs for me: higher heart rate, dry mouth, sense of impending doom, inability to walk well, light headed, naseous, and shaky...When asked how was I this morning, I answered, "scared" and worried, and it went well and I was home in no time. Maybe you are like me a bit...
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