just need one answer - Heart Disorders Message Board

yugokid · 10-29-2004, 08:31 PM

is there a posiblity that if a person does not eat for 20 or so hours that the lack of food will increase the persons Heart Rate? just wondering cause it happened to me today, i did not have anything to eat all day and last time i did eat was yesterday around 7. just wonderin

EDIT, it seems that my heart is just chillen at 90-110 when im sitting or working and its under 90 when im sleeping. I take 25mg Toprol XL and 500mg of MAG a day, tho i may take one more right now. i just ate a whole box of mac n' cheese maybe two hours ago and i have FREQUENT pvcs. what are some good things to do to keep my HR while at work and out on the town. and should i ask my doc for a different drug or just to increase my dose?

zip2play · 10-30-2004, 07:29 AM

Fasting will generally LOWER a person's (and cattle and penguins

) heart rate, rather than raise it.
Evolution has made the very logical choice (it ALWAYS does) to SLOW the body down in times of food scarcity!

CobaltBlue · 10-30-2004, 08:41 AM

...but dehydration results in an increased heart rate. Now, I will leave it up to Zip to figure out what the net effect on the HR will be if someone is in starvation and dehydration mode

I better start running for cover now

yugokid · 10-30-2004, 06:39 PM

hmmm it could have been that, i dont think i had anything to dring in around 6 hours besides a milk shake, that and i only had 6 hours of sleep...OOORRRR it could be that i think too much about my heart rather then live my life.