Thread: High heart rate

Hi Horsecrazy,
You might want to have a blood glucose test to see what your blood sugar level is. If you have low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) a symptom is tachycardia (high heart rate). You could also be suffering from anxiety that puts you in alert mode....lots of adrenaline and a resulting high heart rate.
Try not to worry...but just get checked out.
Ruthe

Hi Horsecrazy! Have a thyroid panel done also..an over-active thyroid will cause your heart rate to go up. When it gets high enough, it feels like a panic attack.

ive been searching for this thread! I recently have been getting these attacks where i can feel my heart racing.It got up to 110 when i checked it. I start to sweat really bad and my hands shake and my legs feel like jelly. It doeS feel like a panic attack but i have never had any mental health issues and it has never happened in a situation where i had a reason to panic. Like yesterday it was when i was on my way to work, one was at work and the other ones in different situations like at a store or at home. so i have not gone to the doc about this, just got married in august and moved twelve hours away...but asked my mom about it. she had dad call me and he said he had exact same symptoms when he was about my age-20.His doc told him it was actually an overactive adrenaline gland. For no reason your adrenaline gland in your throat will drip adrenaline into your heart which makes it beat really fast, like your running a race or going to get in a fight. Im not sure if you have the sweating or shaking but this is all i know about it. My dad said if they find this is what you have, they will prescribe a pill to take but he said one med they use is a depressant (not sure what the name is) he told me to try to see what else is available because not so excited to take depressant to scared it will mess me up and make me depressed. HOPE THIS HELPS!