Hi guys, haven't been around past few days and with good reason. On Monday morning UK time I was rushed into hospital with tachycardia and laboured breathing. I had been to work at 9am and was sent home around 10am as I was really light headed, dizzy and felt like shit but thought I was coming down with something.
Got home and sat down, than at 10:30am it hit me like a train. My heart was pounding and I could hardly move but managed to get off the chair and to the phone, new I had to call 999.
My father was in the bathroom and came out shortly afterwards to help. I lay down on the floor and took deep slow breaths, the operater spoke with my dad. I thought I was going to die, really it was that bad. I was sweating and dripping with sweat, my hands were going cold and I thought this was it.
The rapid response and ambulance arived and took me to the A&E where my heart rate stabilised abit from 150-170bpm to 120-140bpm which is still very fast for someone not doing anything, okay if your in the gym ... I was sat down!
My max heart rate for my age is in the 190 region, 220 minus your age. So I was in the A&E and around the afternoon time my heart rate shot through the fucking roof along with the blood pressure which got to 220!!! heart rate was 170-180 and you could see my heart literally trying to get out of my chest ... they wouldnt give me anything to slow it down because I had taken a strong energy drink that morning which had 2 Grammes of caffeine in it, didnt think that it would have caused this.
They wanted the caffeine to make its way out naturally plus I'm already on strong meds for anxiety. They did several ECG's and didnt find damage or anything like that but mentioned later it was a coronary tachycardia and one that is very dangerous out of the tachycardia's as it can just BOOM shoot your heart to a flatline ... I was scared out of my fucking mind guys.
Later that night I was still in the hospital and had to wear a special device to monitor my heart 24/7 ... hit 140-150 at peak with a normal BPM of 130-140 while asleep!!!
Things started to get better as the days went by and the worse went and now I'm back home but its been a lesson not to touch caffeine or energy supplements ever again.
I'm so glad to be alive and came close to having a heart attack they said in the A&E which would have needing shocking and to be done within 60-90 seconds.
