My heart rate has been higher and my GP checked it

Started 28 December 2025 · 18 replies · 142 hearts · read 3k times

MarenBremen, DE · 28 December 2025

7 months ago

A question rather than an update: My heart rate has been higher and my GP checked it

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

It is not severe. It is relentless, which turns out to be a different problem, and one I have found much harder to describe to anybody.

I have read the guide on this and it covered the ordinary version. Mine is not quite the ordinary version and that is why I am asking.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this, because I would rather go in able to describe it properly.

Thank you for reading something this unglamorous. Any experience welcome, and timescales especially.

GwenBangor, UK

I want to offer the boring outcome for balance: mine was mild, it lasted a month, and it went. Not every account here needs to be dramatic.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

I want to name that an account of something resolving and an account of something that did not are equally welcome here. A page carrying only the first kind would be no use to the person reading it at two in the morning.

16me too 6

VivLuton, UK

Something I only worked out late: two mild things at once felt much worse than either would have on its own, and I kept trying to find a single cause.

OsipTbilisi, GE

Picking up Viv’s point rather than starting a new one.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

PerrinNice, FR

That is a kinder way of putting it than I have managed about myself.

9me too 1

CasperOdense, DK

My prescriber slowed my schedule down and most of it resolved within a month. I am not suggesting that for you. I am saying the conversation exists.

TaaviTallinn, EE

Reading Perrin, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The thing that made mine manageable was accepting that a bad three days did not mean a bad month. I was extrapolating from every rough patch.

RaviLeicester, UK

I keep a two-line note every day and it is the only reason I can answer questions about my own symptoms. Worth starting even now, mid-way through.

LarkGalway, IE

My pharmacist was more use to me than anybody. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge, and she spotted an interaction nobody else had mentioned.

BrammyBelfast, NI

#10

There is a real difference between something unpleasant and something worrying, and if you cannot tell which yours is, that itself is a reason to ask somebody qualified.

HéloïseGeneva, CH

#11

Nothing useful, just that I have been exactly here.

BrimHalifax, UK

#12

Mine was almost entirely about timing. Moving when I did it by two days changed the shape of my week completely and cost nothing.

BaySt Ives, UK

#13

Whatever it is, you are not being dramatic. Half the reason people end up frightened at midnight is that they talked themselves out of asking at four in the afternoon.

NanNeath, UK

#14

Reading Brim, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I found the anticipation harder than the symptom. Once I had had it twice and knew what it was, the third time barely registered.

10me too 1

PeggyRotherham, UK

#15

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that and came out of it knowing less than I went in with.

7me too 9

NadirCasablanca, MA

#16

Peggy, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

For me the useful question was not what to do about it but how long it typically lasts, because that turned an unbounded problem into a bounded one.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#17

Two things. First, nobody here can tell you what is happening in your body. Second, the conversation you want to have is with a clinician, and we can help you write down what to say.

NilsUppsala, SE

#18

I had one genuinely rough fortnight in two years. One. I say that because if you only read the difficult threads you will get a badly skewed picture.