High heart rate due to broncitus(with asthma)

[engineer1961]

Hi , has anyone else had a rather high heart rate (doctor said it was racing )due to asthma or broncitus ? And befor you ask ...no meds in my system at the time . I just came from the walk in clinic. And the doctor told me that I had broncirus and a very high heart rate ..the broncitus was no suprise but the heart rate being high was . My chest is really sore from coughing but on the right side (not left).He gave me a few percriptions , zpack, pergnasoze(you know the one that kills your stomach and makes you hungaery all at once...ok my spelling kills toingh ) plus tylonol#3for the pain and he upped my puffers too .my peek flow is only at 260 ish and it's usually at 450 on a good day ........yup i'm a wreck .Off to bed for me ! But if any of you have had the heart thing from asthma or broncitus ..do tell please (i'm only34!).Ciao and thank you in advanced !!

[WendyRose]

My goodness E!! Hope you feel better soon. I know nothing cept that I wanted to wish you better health!! Take Care!!

[cupcake118]

I have a constantly high heart rate that is directly related to all the meds i take for my asthma, as i'm sure you know the albuterol will increase your heart rate some too. Also i do find when i am having more difficulty breathing my heart rate tends to increase some and it seems the higher it gets the quicker my O2 sats fall. I hope you are feeling better

[Countrymouse]

Hi engineer1961, just wondering exactly how high your pulse was? My pulse will race sometimes even before I load up on my meds, and albuterol will usually does speed it up a bit. Without being affected by meds I think the fastest mine has ever been is @ 130 bpm. I was just to the dr last night myself with a sinus infection, upper resp infection and ear infection, luckily no bronchitis this time. My doc also put me on Zpac, Decadron (which I take in place of prednisone), and tussinex cough syrup. This morning my pulse was 118 bpm.

Do you know what your pulse runs normally? Hope you are feeling better soon and can get that peek flow back up. Take care and keep us posted.

[engineer1961]

Noclue what my normal heart rate is and the doctor never gave me the rate just that it was "very high ".The Prednisone is starting to help i think, I'm breathing easier plus my PFM is higher today.The tylonol #3 is helping with the pain too (plus my husband will not let me out of bed .......yes he's gone to the store to buy me some OJ so i snuck in here ....a tad over protective but sweet none the less .Thank you all for your replies . I really think my heart rate was just up from all the damm caughing fits!