If I'm honest, Marcie, I don't think so either.  I'm just trying to find some benign reason for it being that high.

Yeah, and I already do.  I walk all the time....it just pisses me off that I can't do stuff.  I got the green light from the pain guy to start a run-walk-run program yesterday, and now I'm being told I can't do that because of my heart rate.  It's incredibly frustrating.

Yeah, I know that too, and I think that's what they're going to say is wrong.  The electrical signals are all kerflooey...but there's medication I can take for that (if that's what's going on, that is).

I occasionally get palpitations, where I can feel it beat VERY fast, then stop, beat a couple of times really slowly, then fast again, then go back to it's normal rhythm.  Apart from that, no, I can't tell that it's beating that fast, and I feel fine. 

They had at first thought that it was because I was in pain, and that that was what was causing my heart to beat faster.  But I wasn't in THAT much pain yesterday, or today - and it was 110 yesterday and 115 today.  So, we can rule that out as a cause.

I just want to know what the heck is going on.  That's all.  Once I know, I can get on with stuff.  I just feel like I've been held back and held back and every time I think I'm over one thing and on the road to recovery....another thing rears it's ugly head.

Oh well.  Life goes on.

That's the thing that aggrivates me the most.  That it's going to take ages to figure out what's going on.

I'm sure it's something minor and can be easily fixed with medication.  I just wish the damn referral process didn't take so long!

Geez!  That is high!  When I said mine sometimes spikes, it is to about 102!  Most of the time it is in the 80s or lower.  My Doctor thinks it is just my aversion to giving blood (since everything is normal every time I visit him, but a lot higher when the VBS draws a pint).  I hate the needles, but I try not to get all worked up about it.  Apparently I do.

Since I am on HBP medicine, and give blood 4-5 times a year, I am watching this stuff really carefully (the doc wont write a prescription for more than 6 months, so that means at least 2 visits a year).

I hope it is just the fact that dave is home and your Heart is going thumpity thump thump!  That could be it!

Aha!  I think I have diagnosed your problem!  You are IN LOVE!

Some of us old fogies that are married, are still in love!  With our spouses!

Nope. We looked at my vital signs for every visit since we got here, and it's consistently been higher than 110 since April.  That's high, and that's an extended period of time, and that's not good.

That's the thing...it doesn't hurt.  I've never had any chest pain or arm pain. 

HAHAAH!  Funny!  I don't feel ill, Dan.  Not in the slightest.

You are 100% correct, lady.  My heart is not something to be messed around with - I've only got one, and I can't live without it!  I'm going to try my best to be patient and not freak out...and I've ben knitting up a storm lately anyway, so I've got some good stress relief going on.

We already did.  One of the meds I'm on can cause tachycardia, but when we looked over my history for the past year my heart rate was actually lower when I was on the medication.  The tachycardia started AFTER I had come off of it.  I was put back on it last month, and my heart rate is still the same.  So, we know it's not the medications.  If it was, that would be an easy fix....

Yep, it increases the seizure risk, so most physicians won't let you take both at the same time. 

If you're looking into adding medications that act as catalysts for the pain meds, you might want to ask about gabapentin as well.  It's an anti seizure med, but it works for a myraid of other stuff....and it doesn't have the risks that elavil does. As far as I know, it's not contraindicated with Ultram (tramadol).  Might be worth looking into.

I was on that once.  That was after they had misdiagnosed me as having bipolar disorder.  I was on that, lithium, tegretol and some other med that I can't recally the name of.  I do recall the dreams, though.  Very, very vivid.

I took my pulse atr various times during the day yesterday, and when we went to the BX I used the BP cuff thing that you see in a lot of stores.  It ranged from 99 to 112, and the machine rated me at 104.  I had wondered if it wasn't the stress of being in the doctor's office that was pushing it up, but as I wasn't anywhere near a doctor yesterday I can rule that out now.

Thank you for the card, btw.  It should be ME who's thanking YOU, just so's you know.  

That's what I'm doing.  I'm creating a log of what I do and when and taking my heart rate whilst doing so in the hopes that we can identify a pattern.  The lowest it's been in the past 24 hours has been 97, and that was when I first woke up (before I got out of bed).  That's still really pretty high considering I was laying in bed. 

I got palpitations yesterday and I made a note of it.   I think that I've got so used to having them that I haven't paid them any mind.  That needs to change.  I'm going to have to make myself very aware of what's going on with my heart and report it all to the doc.

And yes, it DOES stink.