
Have Tachycardia, Graves Disease, Hyperthyroidism. Reason For Fast Heart Beat. Due To Anxiety?

My question to you, is could this all be anxiety? If it is is there a way to tell the difference? How high can I let my heart rate get before I need to go the ER.? And my most disturbing symptom is when Im just laying still my heart rate jumps all over the place with any little movement. It will go from 60 to 120 to 70 to 140 all in a few mins why does that happen? I just want some piece of mind don't think I can handle this much longer.
Thanks for writing in.
I am a qualified and certified cardiologist. I read your mail with diligence.
What you have diagnosed yourself to be having "anxiety", I entirely agree with you. However, it is secondary to hyperthyroidism. Your faster rate episodes are mostly documented as inappropriate tachycardia, though doctors before doing EKG did think, and correctly so that "the upper chambers of heart taking off". That is paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT). For your problems you were correctly prescribed betablockers. I could not find why these were stopped? My suggestion see a medical specialist or a cardiologist who would throroughly examine you and do certain tests like Holter(24 hour recording) and if needed echocardiography and will suggest you a drug. That should give you relief. You are neither suffering from Panic Attack nor there is anything to panic about. Good Luck.
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Dr Anil Grover

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