pulse is 128 when resting - Heart Disorders Message Board

aveolela · 04-02-2009, 11:55 AM

My pulse is always 128 when resting. I never noticed this until the nurses pointed it out the past two years when I tried to give blood. I wasn't nervous and I just checked my rate again and it's still the same. At checkups at the doctor's, the nurses never say anything about my pulse rate. I wiegh 120 lbs and I am 5'0''. This time, the nurse told me that it wasn't normal to have over 100 at a resting rate, so I'm not sure what that means for me.

harka · 04-02-2009, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by aveolela

My pulse is always 128 when resting. I never noticed this until the nurses pointed it out the past two years when I tried to give blood. I wasn't nervous and I just checked my rate again and it's still the same. At checkups at the doctor's, the nurses never say anything about my pulse rate. I wiegh 120 lbs and I am 5'0''. This time, the nurse told me that it wasn't normal to have over 100 at a resting rate, so I'm not sure what that means for me.

That is definitely not normal--especially when it's sustained for such a long period of time. Tell your doctor that it's been going on like that for so long and it's important for you to get an ECG, as well as some ancilliary biochemical tests done to rule out electrolyte disturbances as well as an overactive thyroid gland. The doctor may also order an echocardiogram to confirm that your heart is structurally normal.

Is there any history of heart problems in your family? Not necessarily heart attacks in anyone but more:
a) history of heart attacks in people under 50?
b) sudden death?
c) Weird valvular or congenital heart problems?
d) a heart that was too thick in a relatively young relative?

aveolela · 04-02-2009, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by cgranulomatis

That is definitely not normal--especially when it's sustained for such a long period of time. Tell your doctor that it's been going on like that for so long and it's important for you to get an ECG, as well as some ancilliary biochemical tests done to rule out electrolyte disturbances as well as an overactive thyroid gland. The doctor may also order an echocardiogram to confirm that your heart is structurally normal.

Is there any history of heart problems in your family? Not necessarily heart attacks in anyone but more:
a) history of heart attacks in people under 50?
b) sudden death?
c) Weird valvular or congenital heart problems?
d) a heart that was too thick in a relatively young relative?

Nope. The only heart attack under 50 was my grandfather on my mother's side, and it was caused from a major wreck he was in (it bruised his heart). I'm 18... would my age have any importance with this?