Fast Heartbeat at examination?

How is your heart beating at doctors office? Is there any interesting strory about your fast heart beating at the doctors?

Mine goes through the roof. It was between 107-120 last time!

Depends on what's happening , younger it went nuts , now it's more calm

It depends a lot on the situation and the conditions, but usually in recent years during medical visits at the doctor's office my heart has always been beating quite calmly. However, when I was a teenager and then a young man, my heart would always beat fast and strong, and the doctors would notice my emotional state. I remember that at the age of 16, during an appointment with a young female doctor, my heart started beating fast and strong, at 110 bpm.

As long as I can remember, my heart was always pounding noticeably hard and fast when I was at the doc‘s office. This is caused by my love of being auscultated. Since more than a year now, I finally switched to a nice and attractive female family doc and as she was listening to my heart for the first time she slightly smiled and said „oh, he‘s a little fast“.

Being stethed by a woman, either play exam or real, gets my old pump pounding. In a play exam. It's pounding because I know I will get to steth her next. In a real exam I'm fantasizing about stething the pretty young NP.

Question always is, WHY is it rapid? Excitement? Exercise? Normal for you? Dysrhythmia like atrial fibrillation, atrial tachycardia etc. Hyperthyroidism? That's what should be going on in the doctor's mind.

I remember a few years back whilst having a pre-employment medical the rather stern middle aged female doctor commenting on my heart rate when she was listening to my chest, she asked if I was nervous so I informed her it was a nervous excitement that I always experience when being auscultated., she said “well, your pumping away like a piston engine”, which of course just made it even more rapid.!!

In an examination I always have the feeling that my heartbeat is going to "give me away" in some strange way - as if the doctor could detect the difference between an elevated heartbeat caused by perfectly common nervousness, and one due to the patient being totally turned on by the stethoscope on their chest...

Of course, I do everything I can to remain calm and keep my heartbeat reasonably under control. It doesn't help if the doctor makes one of those delicious casual comments along the lines of "your heart's beating quite fast at the moment..."

It would be so wonderful to have the opportunity, through a play exam, to not have to stay calm and in control...

Fast

In a few days, we'll have to have a work visit here at the office, and the doctor, a young woman, will also be examining me, even though I'm the boss. I hope my heart doesn't start beating too fast during the visit.

@Cuoreitaliano Too bad, I‘m not at your office to join this exam. Would be great if you could arrange a private one with her next spring where I could participate 😉

It’s the elevated blood pressure that occurs only in the doctor’s office that concerns me. Somehow I can keep the heart rate in check in those circumstances.

My heart would be fast because I walked there of course its gonna be inside

I went to the doctors yesterday for a completely unrelated matter so was not expecting a stething. Even when she asked about my asthma and we talked about it. My heart rate was pretty normal almost good for me at the drs but then she reached for the stethoscope and OMG. I knew straight away what was about to happen and my heart reacted, immediately thumping like crazy.

As she stethed me, I could feel my heart slamming against her steth, even when asked to take deep breaths. Whilst she commented on it sounding fine, she did note that it was a little fast

Normally my heartbeat was faster than normal, but thankfully the doctor never commented on it.

Another funny story. I don't like going to medical examinations or screenings, even though I know I'm perfectly healthy. When I get to the hospital, my stomach immediately starts to ache. And while I'm running between the rooms, I even run to take a crap a couple of times. I don't know. It's my body's reaction. The hospital triggers a process of defecation in me.

My heart raced a bit when i was in my teens. After all the medical exams in the navy and subsequent, my BP, heart rate etc are not phased. In fact, my doc wanted to manually check them at the end of my exam because she thought the nurses readings at intake were too low.

Always elevated heartbeat and elevated BP.

Racing.

Easily 120 bpm. All doctors comment on it. And my BP is elevated too. This is on itself one reason why I dread doctor appointments in real life.

But this is about the only situation that gets me so stressed. I'm fairly fit physically and my heart rate is usually calm.

@patientdoc I had the same experience as you when I went to cardiological for prevention check up on March. My heart was beating over 100 times per minute even 3 hours before visit. Close to visit time, heart began to beating bit faster, around 120. When I entered nurse office for ECG, machine showed 130 bpm. My blood pressure then was 170/90 or something like this. After heart ultrasound and auscultation, cardiologist wrote on report 100 bpm, but I think heart rate was higher.

Always very fast, which makes me more nervous, which again accelerates it!