My Dumbbells Exercise is Causing High Pulse Rate
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This started in Nov 2013, for the first time I started taking dumbbells for exercise. I didn't know the weight to start so I took 20 kg (10kg in both hands). Within a week of exercise, I felt shortness of breath and so I stopped doing it and went to see a doctor.
He told me to take ECG and it came out normal but had higher pulse rate. When he checked my bp it was also high like 140/90. So he prescribed Nebicard 2.5 one tab per day morning and it brought down my heart rate and BP.
Since then I am not able to work harder and when I do something then excessive sweating and higher pulse happens. So I went to see a cardiologist and he asked for an echo test.
It was taken lying down and he told there is no problem but I have a Bicuspid Aortic Valve. He told to continue with Nebicard and take echo every once in a year.
But even today I have symptoms like higher pulse and I can feel the heart beating hard when I touch the chest wall. Also when I stand up suddenly my heart rate first increases and then decrease after 7 seconds and I have sweat, Sometimes this is accompanied by breathing difficulty. This stops to normal after 1-2 min. This is happening to me since Nov 2013 and still going on.
What is wrong with me, is BAV causing this or what test should I take now.
Should I take stress Echo test?
Note: I have done all blood tests, thyroid tests, kidney Doppler. All are normal.
He told me to take ECG and it came out normal but had higher pulse rate. When he checked my bp it was also high like 140/90. So he prescribed Nebicard 2.5 one tab per day morning and it brought down my heart rate and BP.
Since then I am not able to work harder and when I do something then excessive sweating and higher pulse happens. So I went to see a cardiologist and he asked for an echo test.
It was taken lying down and he told there is no problem but I have a Bicuspid Aortic Valve. He told to continue with Nebicard and take echo every once in a year.
But even today I have symptoms like higher pulse and I can feel the heart beating hard when I touch the chest wall. Also when I stand up suddenly my heart rate first increases and then decrease after 7 seconds and I have sweat, Sometimes this is accompanied by breathing difficulty. This stops to normal after 1-2 min. This is happening to me since Nov 2013 and still going on.
What is wrong with me, is BAV causing this or what test should I take now.
Should I take stress Echo test?
Note: I have done all blood tests, thyroid tests, kidney Doppler. All are normal.
Category: Cardiology
The Bicuspid aortic valve indeed is causing the symptoms you have mentioned and this can be a heaviness in chest, shortness of breath, etc.
These are best managed by a Cardiac Valve specialist and they usually monitor you for signs of other related problems. The treatment for this is usually a surgery that replaces the defective valve with an artificial tricuspid normal one. This will relieve you from all your symptoms and shall last for a decade at least. The surgery is performed by a Cardio-thoracic surgeon and recovery usually does not take too long.
You can discuss this with your doctor and speak to a heart surgeon about your options.
These are best managed by a Cardiac Valve specialist and they usually monitor you for signs of other related problems. The treatment for this is usually a surgery that replaces the defective valve with an artificial tricuspid normal one. This will relieve you from all your symptoms and shall last for a decade at least. The surgery is performed by a Cardio-thoracic surgeon and recovery usually does not take too long.
You can discuss this with your doctor and speak to a heart surgeon about your options.
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