[susie123]

Having read the comments by John and Margaret, my experience with a rapid heartbeat has been a bit different.

My pulse appears to be naturally high, above the "normal" 100bpm and up to 120 I would say. When I was in hosp in Jan, the night before my op this was noticed and caused some alarm, doctors were sent for, my chest was listened to and I had an ECG. I told them it would probably go higher thanks to anxiety about the op, they found nothing wrong and forgot about it.

Then a few weeks ago I had to have a procedure at Preston to insert a catheter into my heart, again they noticed a rapid pulse, I told them it was par for the course and would probably subside once the procedure was under way. Which it did and as I was hooked up to an ecg machine as part of the procedure again it was not taken any further.

Last week I went for a blood transfusion and the same thing happened, high pulse, everyone got very excited, I told them it would go away once I was hooked up to the drip but they sent for the doc anyway who listened to my heart and said all was fine, it must be just me as I'd been saying all along.

Of course when they get all excited about it it makes it worse so I asked if could have THIS PERSON HAS A NORMALLY HIGH HEART RATE plastered across the front of my notes

I know my pulse was nowhere near as high as John and Margaret describe and I know all the docs and nurses have to take note of anything unusual but I'm getting a teeny bit fed up of having to explain every time. I guess I should be glad they take it so seriously...