Getting woken up with what I think is a rapid heart rate

Can anyone shed any light on this, for the past few weeks, on and off I’ve been woken up by what feels like a super rapid heart rate, it quickly slows down once I wake then i fell asleep again. By the morning I wonder if instant it or imagined it.

It’s happened a few times now and I’m not sure what to do.

I do take Hawthorne, I’m on buhners protocol for Lyme babs and bart and over the last few weeks have decreased my dose of all herbs to once a day as I just felt like my body needed a little break.

I had an ecg carried out about 8 months ago due to rapid heart rate and that was fine.

What do I do from here?

I had this for awhile. How much and what type of Hawthorne are you taking?

How is your treatment going?

I'm glad your ecg was fine! That is always a relief.

Maybe getting an iWatch or similar device that tracks your pulse while you sleep? If not, maybe a holter monitor?

I had a similar thing that happened to me for years. I would wake up with a heart rate of around 130 (resting heart rate is mid to low 60's), and sweats after 2-3 hours of sleep. Then I would be wide awake for hours. It was happening between 2-3 am. I now take mast cell stabilizers and don't have it anymore. I had a holter monitor done and it didn't show anything, ECG was normal too. I think it might be a histamine dump with an adrenaline rush. I didn't find out anything from drs.

Szabo246 said...
Thank you all for your responses,

Opugirl I am taking Hawthorne capsules, natures way capsules. I take one a day. Other than that my symptoms are relatively mild.

WBF- I haven’t changed anything but I have dropped the dose on all herbs temporarily.

Girlie - I don’t take CoQ10 do you think it’s worth trying?
Healing 98 - I rummaged around looking for my fibit watch last night, finally found it and wore it last night, Sod’s law I didnt wake up but will keep it on me now. I did feel a bit like I had a fast heartbeat this afternoon at one point but when I checked it it was fine?!

CoQ10 is good for the heart. I don't have heart issues (that I know of) but I've been taking CoQ10 for years - even prior to having lyme.
I added Hawthorne in since lyme.

This along with a very minor pain in my chest is how my symptoms started as well.

I would go to bed and wake up and hour later with my heart pounding in my chest. I was able to fall back asleep but then I would wake up at 0300 every night wide away. I also noticed that when I laid on my left side that I would have trouble sleeping. That was late April of 2018. I did notice an odd rash about this time on my legs. Shortly thereafter the brain fog, incredible fatigue, twitching, neck pain, muscle spasms and other symptoms started up. My disrupted sleep was by far the worst symptom.

I went to the ER twice (thinking I was having heart attacks), my family doctor three times (lyme test negative), a cardiologist, and twice to a neurologist. All of my testing came back completely normal. The only reason I considered Lyme disease was that a nurse who gave me an MRI told me she had Lyme and had exactly the same symptoms as I did.

I found a doctor in late May of 2018 who started me on antibiotics for Lyme and gave me more detailed tests for Lyme (came back negative as well). It took about 5 weeks for the antibiotics to work but they did improve a lot of my symptoms but never really fixed my insomnia. I stopped taking them after about 3 months and thought that I was well but the sickness came back a few days after I stopped them.

Now I'm back on the antibiotics and feeling much better again. I do have new symptoms now though that are different than before. It sounds weird to say it but it's almost like the meds chased the Lyme into the harder to reach areas of my brain (including my eyes and ears). I had an incredible neck stiffness and pain brought on when i was taking the meds the first time. I'm also doing the Buhner protocol for Lyme and Babesia for the past few weeks.

I'd thought I'd share my story with you since you seen to be in the beginning stages of it and I hope it does get worse for you.