Topic: How do you exercise with POTS or tachycardia?
CD57
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I need to get back into exercising/swimming but even climbing stairs has me out of breath. I am woken at night with tachycardia also, when lying flat. I am not on regular meds for any of this but do have an RX for a beta blocker, which I am trying to avoid. I take salt and electrolytes.
How do you exercise with this incredibly annoying problem?
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WPinVA
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Can you manage five reps of arm curls with very light weights, like 3 pounds? And then you can work up slowly. Or very slow short walks? That was all I could do, but it's better than nothing.
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Keebler
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- Pilates, Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi. Even lying down, some of these can be fashioned to your level.
Are you taking a good kind and enough magnesium? Other minerals, too? Magnesium can calm a racing or out of synch heartbeat.
Hawthorn has some beta blocker properties. It's in the Cardiac thread.
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Includes articles & discussion about exercise safety & methods. Adrenal support is also included as that is essential with POTS. -
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I take a very low dose atenolol beta blocker - I take it in pediatric liquid so I can control the dose. I take 4.5 mg twice a day and 2 mg at bedtime. I am med sensitive and it seems to help some.
I exercise on a recumbent bike or rowing machine. Everything in supine position if possible. It doesn't always work but it is better than nothing.
I found that taking just 1/2 of a .5 klonopin at night helped adrenaline surges that were causing tachy. I seem to be sensitive to adrenaline.
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CD57
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Interesting Opus. The adrenaline surges can be caused by low adrenal function. Do you support adrenals?
Swimming should be good too then, since it's supine.
I am often woken up by racing heart so it seems my issue may be POTS but something else too, as lying supine can cause this. Thoughts?
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so i was wondering do people with dysautonomia/POTS supposed to have no tachycardia/palpitation when exercise/do activity/exertion supine? maybe like lifting themself or something heavy. or push-up/sit-up.
does getting tachy, palp after eating also the symptoms of POTS/dysautonomia? i read it also related to blood volume? also insulin.
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Summer3
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I am having a VERY tough time with exercise since starting treatment for tachycardia and low BP. Before I could still force it, now I'm completely out of breath and exhausted.
My HR before got up to 180 just walking up a hill and now on a beta blocker it's rare for it to get much higher than the high 70's.
As soon as I'm feeling better I'm going to try reconditioning again. I used to be a runner.
Kisekis, I get a lot of palps after eating and sometimes even faint. I believe that's called postprandial hypotension. It's where the blood pools in your stomach for digestion. The treatment (non-medication based) is to eat small low-carb meals instead of large ones.
CD57, I was VERY against taking the beta blocker, but I have to say that I never realized how many skipped beats and heart irregularities I had until I took it and they stopped. They were a lot more frequent/worse than I realized. I must have gotten used to my heart beating like that. I take metoprolol 25 mg and 12.5 mg per day. It does make me more out of breath though.
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Look up the Vanderbilt (I think) research on astronaut POTS/OI and recumbant bicycle training/recovery. I'm too sick to do it myself, but that's what I would do (astronauts often have POTS/OI).
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