How can I slow down my heart rate when in heat?

7 Mar 2011

It's not normal for your heart rate to get that high, especially since when you're in the shower you are not exerting yourself or doing aerobic activity. You should see a doctor to find out what the cause of this tachacardia is.

7 Mar 2011

You need a good checkup with a heart doctor. You sound like you could have heart arrythmia. I do and use a very los dose of a beta blocker called Atenolol 25mg. It's helped alot. I don't skip beats anymore either. Hope this will help you...

7 Mar 2011

This is odd, because these are the same symptoms my daughter was having for a little over a month and literally blacking out, and we were almost certain it was an iron deficiency, anemia, come to find out that she had just been diagnosed with first stage asthma, she is on an inhaler and prednisone for a month, she is 13 years of age... I would have never thought about that or considered it, but too, people with seasonal allergies have also run into some of these symptoms as well... not to mention when my daughter's symptoms were in their onset stage she was almost always in the shower... blaze22

9 Mar 2011

You definitely need to be checked out by a medical professional. It sounds like you have high blood pressure - and unchecked HBP is very bad. Or it could be something else - you must see a professional.

21 Apr 2012

Actually it sounds like a presyncopal episode to me. Sometimes in the heat your blood pressure drops as your body vasodilates to cool you down; to keep your BP from dropping too much your body ramps up your heart rate. This is a normal physiological response to a drop in blood pressure. You felt lightheaded because the acute drop in blood pressure decreased the amount of oxygen perfusing the brain. The issue becomes why your blood pressure dropped so much that you almost passed out -- could be that you were dehydrated, not drinking enough, tend to run a low BP at baseline, etc. Keep hydrated, exercise on a regular basis and talk to your doc. You may want to avoid beta blockers if you tend to have low blood pressure, as they would only make you more prone to syncopizing.