Racing heart beat

Hi Everyone. I had a new dual pacemaker impalnted on Jan 9, 2018.  so far so good. I had issues with Pvcs after implant. So Dr put me on toprol xl twice a day and back on magnesium which helped me and they seem to have gone away. But last night for the first time i woke up in the middle of the night with my heart racing super fast. it took me a min or two to get it to slow down. Has anyone else had this happen to them?  

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Yeah, same for me....

by Theknotguy - 2018-02-17 15:01:13

Right after I got the pacemaker and had changes in my medication I started having vivid dreams as well as serial dreams.  i.e. I'd have a dream one night and pick up where I left off with another dream the next night.  If the dreams would in any way make sense I could probably make a living writing fantasy fiction.  And, of course, the thing that went along with the dreams was a racing heart.  So I'd wake up with a pounding heart.  A few quick breaths and I'd be OK.  

However, the question is as to why the pounding heart?  You don't give us your age - I'm assuming a little older - so have you been checked out for sleep apnea?  A lot of people with heart problems have, or will get, sleep apnea and that can cause the racing heart.  With sleep apnea you stop breathing.  The brain starts yelling at the body to do something, dumps a whole bunch of adrenalin in the system and the combination of no air plus the adrenalin gives you a racing heart.  Any problems with afib?  That can cause symptoms like a racing heart too.  It may be something to check out.  

The magnesium is good stuff.  I'm on it too.  Next question is if your doctor would have any objections to you taking a straight calcium supplement too.  Not the calcium with all the other stuff, just straight calcium.  That really helped for me.  No scientific backing to the statement, just something that works for me.  

Then, of course, it could be the changes to your body with the pacemaker and the new drugs.  As soon as the body adapts, the dreams go away.  

My body adapted to the medication, I changed my CPAP mask so it wouldn't slip off while I was sleeping, and I added a calcium supplement to the magnesium supplement.  Now I rarely have any racing heart dreams.  

Hope something will work for you.  
 

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