High Heart Beat

[Priya_B]

Hi,

I am a 37 year old female.  I live in Dubai and I was suffering from weakness (having a feeling that my hands and legs are trembling) muscle&joint pain.  When I went to the doctor my heart beat was 120/min.  My BP is 60/110.  The doc ordered for blood tests and I was diagonised with vitamin D deficiency.  I have been given a dose of 50000 of Vitamin D3 capsules once a week for 12 weeks.  It is almost a week that I have started this medicine.  

Upon checking with the doctor about my high heart beat rate he mentioned to me that it is partly because of my anxiety and is also because of the vitamin D deficiency.  

Please could someone suggest whether Vitamin D Deficiency would lead to high pulse rate.  I am really worried whether it could be any heart problem

[Bromley]

Glad to hear it. I had some similar issues and managed to put em behind me, so I am feeling better about this myself. Take care now.

[Priya_B]

Thanks a lot for your comments.  I did go to the doc and had an ECG and fortunately everything is fine and the doc confirmed that it was due to anxiety.  Now my symptoms are getting better.  My pulse rate is not at 84 bpm.  i am feeling better.

[Jerry_NJ]

Many people have high heart rate and blood pressure, can be either not necessarily both when in a doctor's office.  

A HR of 120 at a true rest is too high, but if you just walked in and haven't recovered from that physical activity many would see a HR of 100 or more.  Some have a resting HR in the upper 70s or even 80s and very little stress and/or activity will push them up.

Taking you own HR is simple and requires only some way to measure time, most pick 10 or 15 seconds, I usually count for a full minute. If you do this when you are in a comfortable state of mind and relaxed physically for at lest 10 minutes and get a HR of 120 I think you may want to get further tests as "Bromley" suggests.   I'd do the home HR test first.

[Bromley]

Hi I am sorry to hear that you are feeling anxious about your heart  health. I have been through some of this and suggest that one possibility is that your doctor is correct: you mention that you feel weak and that you are worried. If you have vitamin d deficiency, weakness is a definite symptom from what I just read on the web.Feeling weak, and being worried go hand in hand to create anxiety, which can raise your heart rate.

Whether this is what he meant or not.  Testing for vitamin d deficiency is done easily with a blood test, just as your heart can be tested for heart issues using fairly straight forward testing methods. A high heart rate is often a normal heart beat that is running fast because of some systemic issue, such as an adrenalin rush. It is easy to determine whether you have a normal heart beat:  ask you doctor for an EKG. The other heart concerns are normally: 1. is the heart structurally normal  and does it have good "function" meaning does it pump blood the way its supposed to.  This can be assessed with an echo cardiogram, another very simple test. 2. blockages. This is normally assessed through a stress test, at least initially.  Before that though, doctors look at risk factors and your symptoms.They may assess this before recommending a stress test. Of course you can request that you be given one, but be prepared to work...

If you are real worried about this, I would ask your doctor about getting some of this testing done to address your fears. In many cases a really good doctor should be able to make your  heart rate drop by providing you with some reassurance and basic insight into the nature of problem at hand. If you dont buy it, ask for the testing. Seeing proof can also be very reassuring, and may result in a drop in your heart rate....