Hello everyone,
I am a 40 year old male and I weigh 198 pounds and am 6′1”.
When I wake in the morning an average reading for my blood pressure is 110/50 and my pulse is around 50-55.
Sometimes it’s lower, sometimes it’s higher by as much as 5 points systolic, diastolic and heart rate during these waking hours.
During the day when I sit down and take it it is roughly 120/71 and pulse is 73, again give or take up to 5 points in both directions respectively.
My concern is my blood pressure and heart rate when I exercise on the treadmill..
We have a “Landice L8 Treadmill” and we also have an “Omron HEM-712C” blood pressure monitor.
We have had the monitor calibrated by our cardiologist and it gives perfect values for pressure and heart rate.
We then calibrated the Landice Treadmill with the monitor. The treadmill has stainless steel hand grips that measure heart rate and the treadmill gives identical correct values for heart rate.
My heart rate is usually about 85 when I get on the treadmill and I set the treadmill speed to 2.5
After about the first minute my heart rate goes up to 95 or so and then fluctuates between 82 and 105 during the 1 hour that I stay on at that speed.
If I turn the speed up to 2.8 my heart rate fluctuates between 95 and 115.
If I get off the treadmill and take my blood pressure immediately I get a reading in the 120’s Systolic and 70’s diastolic and my heart rate is in the 80’s.
The second immediate consecutive reading is around 113/60 and pulse is like 68.
What worries me is when I turned up the speed to 3.0 or 3.2 my heart rate goes up to like 168 after only a minute.
I got off and took my blood pressure immediately and it was 162/82 and my pulse was 76.
Is my heart rate supposed to be 168 after only a minute at the speed of 3.0 to 3.2?
And second my blood pressure stayed up at around 159/80 and my pulse stayed at about 77 for like 10 to 15 minutes after I got off the treadmill. Is this normal?
It seems like it stayed up too long.
I also did a treadmill stress test at the cardiologist about two months ago and while on the treadmill at almost a running speed, but still just a brisk, brisk walk my blood pressure went all the way up to 200/100 and my pulse was 178.
I asked my cardiologist if that was high and he said yes. Is this dangerous?
I don’t have any chest pain or shortness of breath. Is it exercise hypertension?
Is exercise hypertension reversible?
If this is exercise hypertension and the elasticity in my arteries isn’t there anymore can it be restored somehow?
I do not like taking medication, rather I would like to do things naturally.
Are there any tests I should specifically take to figure out why my blood pressure goes so high during exercise?
Basically I just want to know:
(A). Is the blood pressure and heart rate I experience while exercising on my treadmill at home normal for the speed I am operating at?
and
(B). If I do continually experience high blood pressure while exercising but not while at rest, what tests should I take?
I feel like a ton of adrenaline is being dumped into my bloodstream when these pressures occur. I have been tested for a pheochromocytoma by blood and MRI and both came back negative neck and entire body areas.
I am also pretty mellow and can’t imagine it being anything like a panic attack.
I try not to worry but it seems pretty high to me!
I hope there is someone out there who can shed some light on what may be causing my hearts symptoms and give me direction for what may remedy them.
Thank you so much in advance,
Bryan
Please note I wasn’t running at the doctors office, I was walking very briskly. Also please note at home I was only at the speeds of 3.0 and 3.2 for exactly 50 seconds.
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Hi : )
I have been having a rapid heart increase upon standing for about 6 months now. The heart rate raises from 20 to 30 beats upon standing just about every time I stand.
It also seems to race while laying down just after I roll over after having been asleep. It does that every time, I roll over from one side to the other and it jumps 20 to 30 beats and then goes down after about 10 seconds back to normal which is about 60 beats while laying down.
My heart rate also goes way up and stays up when I am in the sun and it also goes up while I am in a hot shower. When in the sun or a hot shower it goes all the way up between 140 and 160 beats per minute.
While those sound to me like POTS, I am uncertain about the blood pressure. I know you are supposed to take your blood pressure while sitting down, but it is when I am standing that I feel the symptoms so I take it while standing on numerous occasions and it is always high(at least I think it is, can you please tell me?).
While I am standing and I take it it is pretty much consistent at 143/87 and the pulse is between 75 and 88 each time.
Occasionally the second number (Diastolic) is 90, 91, 92 and on rare occasions (about three times) I have taken it and the Diastolic is between 144/100 and 146/106 and the pulse was 86.
Sometimes drinking a lot of water seems to help keep my heart rate normal so I can stand without it jumping so high, sometimes.
If you could please answer a few questions?
First question is, does this sound like POTS or what does it sound like?
And second is does POTS raise blood pressure like what I am explaining I have?
I was just in the shower with my Dad because I take care of him and shower him and I had an episode and it really scared me.
I felt my heart acting funny so I felt my wrist for my pulse and I felt my heart just go thump, and then about three seconds later it started to beat really fast and then after about 4 seconds it went “thump” and the again about three seconds later it just took off racing again.
I got out of the shower and got my Dad safe and took my blood pressure and it was 163/96 pulse 97.
I take it with an “Omron” blood pressure monitor and I have had it calibrated at the doctors office and it is always correct in its readings.
When I lay down at night my blood pressure and heart rate is always really good, I take it in the lying down position and it is always like 106/55 and the pulse between 55 and 65 consistently.
When I take it sitting down during the day I take it right after sitting down. I know you are supposed to wait a while but I like to watch the transition from first sitting down and how fast it “normalizes”.
So, when I do take it right after sitting down it is always about 143/87 pulse can vary between 70 and 90 and then each time I take it within the next 2 minutes, taking it one right after the other, it goes down each time to about 115/65 up to 121/78.
Can anyone shed any light on any tests I should have done?
I have already had a ct, a treadmill, a tomography an echo and a nuclear test and nothing has turned up.
The doctor did say he saw something in the nuclear test pictures but he couldn’t tell if it was something or not, he said the results he saw in the pictures were unequivocal explaining it could be something or it might be the picture. He said if he was a betting man he would bet it was nothing.
He said we could do an angiogram and that would really tell, but I haven’t done the angiogram yet because it sounded invasive and I wanted to read up on it.
He said an angiogram would tell if there was blockage or not and that if there was he could put a medicated stent in there.
Should I have the stent or have bypass surgery if there is blockage?
I am having a tilt table test tomorrow to see if it is POTS or if any other results show from that test.
I did smoke for many years and quit 8 years ago.
Unfortunately I also chewed tobacco for 20 years which I only quit 6 months ago. I had tests for cancer in the throat, nose and mouth and don’t have it there or anywhere else
My teeth are in bad shape and I have several cavities and my front tooth does feel like it is infected and I am having all of the cavities and the infected tooth pulled after the tilt table test.
Could my bad teeth be making my heart race and my blood pressure jump? They are pretty bad and the front one actually has an odor to it now.
I have been afraid to go to the dentist because the last time I had a tooth pulled the dentist broke a large piece of my jawbone which is why I have un-fixed teeth.
I AM going now no matter what to get my teeth fixed.
I was having PSVT symptoms before I quit chewing which is what made me quit chewing in the first place, but now that I quit chewing the sudden onset of PSVT like symptoms don’t occur anymore.
I am afraid that I have damaged the interior walls of my arteries from the constant tobacco chewing and they don’t have the elasticity (Like exercise hypertension), if
I was awake I had a dip in for over 20 years.
I’m really sorry for writing so much here.
I’m only 40 years old, I don’t smoke(anymore), don’t chew(anymore) or drink or do drugs, I weigh 195 and am 6′1 tall and I take care of my Dad who has Parkinson’s and my Mother too and they really count on me. I want to have all the info I can so I can treat this if possible whatever it is so I don’t leave them alone with no one to take care of them, plus I don’t want to die 
Please, helping with any answers would make me feel better so that I have more information to ask the questions I should or if this is a common experience for people who have pots.
Heartfelt thanks for anyone who responds to my question : )
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