To ask if a heart rate of 134

[Tellmelies65]

Is very abnormal?

I do feel at times like my heart is going to fast.

@Tellmelies65

I do feel at times like my heart is going to fast.

As a stress response, or when you're resting? And by too fast do you mean a bit quicker, really quite quick, or something else? Is it your regular lub-dub heartbeat? If you're concerned you need to speak to your GP.

More context is needed OP. EG: Is this at rest, when standing up, just after getting up, when anxious? Are you using an accurate, fully charged, stationary medical grade device to attain these measurements (rather than a phone). How is your blood pressure in relation to this figure?

I have a condition called POTS so have a resting heart rate similar to this andoften higher when standing or when dehydrated, after a big meal, when stressed or many other variables. I'm yet to meet a doctor who is shocked by the numbers or who regards it as a danger to life, albeit it causes me a number of unpleasant symptoms which do put me in bed a lot, and on bad days can be disabling.

Check it over a number of hours and if it is still.consistently high then call your GP and ask them about it, they can invite you in to check themselves or do a basic ECG. You can then be referred to cardiology if it shows anything abnormal, and they can look into why. It's something that should be checked but certainly doesn't mean the situation is necessarily particularly dire.

Normal resting is between 60 - 100bpm.

Are you aware of your heart rate?

That's high.
I'm 46 and my resting is approx 55. A sprint is around 160. Sleep is around 45.

I have supra ventricular tachycardia which sometimes gives me palpitations but it's not anything to worry about. You could do a lot worse than getting it checked out.

60-100 bpm is normal at rest - this means laying flat for 10 mins. If you are small then your HR is normally higher.

As a PP said your HR does go up with age.

Things that put your heart rate up - any movement, emotion, digesting food, fear, for a lot of people caffeine. HR changes are virtually instant to increase, but slower to decrease, this is the way the nervous system works and stops you fainting as soon as you stop moving.

Try taking your pulse a few times a day and make a note of what you were doing when you took it.

Don't use a monitor on a watch, lots of things can make it unreliable and taking your pulse over 30 seconds is more accurate.

as a previous poster said, the average resting heart rate for an adult is between 60-100. Every ten years after 20, the 'average' heart rate increases by about 10. So, in your 30's, 70-110 average, 40's 80-120 average, 50's 90-130 is 'average'.

This is the system medics have been using since around 1890, and it's only recently that medics have started expressing concerns around elevated heart rates within this narrower 60-100 bpm range, without factoring in age related changes, and that's probably 'big pharma' can start prescribing heart meds to people who clinically have no real need for them, and increasing profits for their companies...

This is garbage. It is not so pharmaceutical companies can dish out meds. You are most likely getting confused with rising Systolic BP with age.

Anyone with a heart rate of over 100 with a normal complex ecg is considered to have sinus tachycardia.

You can have sinus tachycardia for a number of reasons, one specifically being sepsis. Seeing as a heart rate of 131+ is a single red NEWS2 score (therefore actioned as a priority call into hospital or rapid sepsis treatment in hospital) then no, a heart rate of 130 isn't average.

Some people do have higher rHR, but it's not considered normal.

[quote Beautifulbonnie]@Hamster1111

I’m being investigated for low heart rate. Mine dips to 36-39 when resting. I’m almost certain it’s my thyroid. As it’s been on it’s way out for a while. Weird readings.

It was only noticed about a 3 weeks ago during a routine drs app.[/quote]
It's good it's been picked up. I hope they discover what it is and you get it sorted! Mine was discovered during one of those private health screens you can get, I had no idea before that. I do think it's better to know if something is wrong though, as then you can deal with it x

Is it really yours lr someone else's issue?
And yes. It's high

Do you take any medication?

Sorry about your friend, @Beautifulbonnie.

I'm sitting here ,heart rest is currently 124, this thread reminded me that I hadn't taken the pill that slows my heart down . My ECG showed nothing wrong apart from the speed.

@LakieLady

Thank you. That means a lot to me

I've been in a&e twice with a resting heart rate of 150. After ecg's blood tests etc they found that I had Graves disease which is an overactive thyroid gland. I take a beta blocker everyday and the Graves disease is in remission. It was very worrying at the time but its fine now.

I think that as you are someone who regularly checks their heart rate- including whilst swimming 🙄 - you are probably asking this as a prop for your neurosis or a joke.