A note to myself, don't have a curry and then later eat dark chocolate. My heart rate went up to 152
I'll be glad when this is over.
The thinking is that the vagus nerve can be attacked during covid and that controls all the automatic processeses.
I think in this case it is probably the dark chocolate cocoa I was eating.
You probably have POTS. I developed that as part of my long covid. I couldn't take anything with caffeine in it, including chocolate otherwise it would make me feel considerably worse. In POTS, your body pumps out excess noradrenaline ( and sometimes adrenaline ) which is what precipitates the fast heart rate and other related symptoms which can include nausea, migraines, anxiety and panic. Any substance that exerts a stimulatory effect will exacerbate the situation eg. caffeine.
A note to myself, don't have a curry and then later eat dark chocolate. My heart rate went up to 152
I'll be glad when this is over.
It was very odd as I was wearing an oximeter that reads oxygen and heart rate, so I was sitting still watching it going up. I could feel the adrenaline before it set off.
Good luck with whatever solution you find to it
You'd probably still be safe with cardio-selective beta blockers eg. bisoprolol. Failing that ask for a referral to a Cardiologist. They could prescribe ivabradine as an alternative which won't affect breathing/asthma. Does seem likely you have some form of dysautonomia - POTS falls into that category, as does IST ( isolated supraventricular tachycardia ) and both are common in the aftermath of covid.
I'm due to have a phone appointment tomorrow, though the whole process is very slow. I'm still waiting for a radiologist to read a high contrast ct scan I had done about 5 months ago.
Could be mucous I had the same with the last bad chest infection I had, once the antibiotics cleared that up the tubes cleared after a few days (like a dam bursting, had this revolting taste at the back of my mouth)
Hospital specialties can make referrals to each other, unless they are being lazy. But waiting lists for things like echocardiograms can be very lengthy ( almost a year in my neck of the woods ). For diagnosing POTS, you can do a quick test yourself if you have a device that can measure your heart rate eg. fitbit, Apple watch etc. Lay down for several minutes and measure your resting heart rate, then stand for 10 mins. If your heart rate increases by 30bpm or more there is a strong chance you have POTS. Anyway, sounds like you're on the path to being investigated, which is the main thing. Hopefully you get to the bottom of it soon.
so dunno if I'll escape it. So far not picked it up, at least symptomatically, from people at work or other acquaintances.I think my brother and I had that about 6-8 weeks ago, nasty cold type thing, seems to go away for a few days then comes back, largely clears off again but lingers for weeks.Really nasty run of colds going around here at the moment, doesn't seem to be COVID, think it is the same one as people getting the same horrendous runny nose/bunged up sinuses as above one of my colleagues still sounds bunged up weeks on, just started going around at my brother's work and he has got it at the moment
