Does your heartbeat race when visiting the doctor?

I'm always torn between letting my heart race when the doctor examines me, or trying to control it. Not that there's much chance of me being successful! There's something so liberating and sensual about being auscultated knowing that the examiner can hear how fast your heart is beating, and not having to cover it up with lame excuses about being nervous, having run to the appointment, or just plain "oh I've no idea why that is, Doctor!". I suppose that's where play exams come in... ;-)

Thinking about it, how wonderfully amazing would it be to go to the doctor, and have them auscultate you only to say - "Well, I can hear your heartbeat is a little fast at the moment, but that's understandable as I know you have a cardio/stethoscope fetish. I'll just listen for a bit while you relax..." Dreammm.....

No my heart doesn't beat more strongly when I see the doctor. Why should it? I'm with Quincy. I usually think about surfing waves which are big enough to be fun but not big enough to scare me. Works every time.

Always beats faster and harder

Yes - for me sometimes I even feel it while waiting for the dr to enter the room.

Heart beats fast and Blood Pressure is always up, even had a 24h monitor on me because it was too high every time. The 24h measurements were perfectly healthy though!

So, one of the issues with our fetish is that we get insanely turned on at a regular doctor appointment. So how have your experiences been? Did your heart race? Did the doctor comment on it? How did you explain it?

I know I would be torn between wanting out of the awkward situation and wanting to stay in it forever. Especially if it was a beautiful young female doc.

Also, first time poster here! 😃

I'm a huge cardiophile, but I wouldn't say I'm insanely turned on at a real doctor's appointment. My heart was racing at my physical the other day, but mainly because I was incredibly nervous and always am in his office. 98bpm when the nurse checked my pulse this time, and I know it's been higher at previous visits. 😢 But if I were to take my pulse in the comfort of my home for example, it's would be around 72-74bpm

Only once has someone commented on it, but it wasn't my doctor. It was a nurse that I'd never seen at his office before. She took my pulse, gave me a strange look, and asked if I felt like my heart was racing. I told her yes but didn't know what else to say. I was in getting checked out for strep throat. Then she took my temperature and realized I had a fever, which honestly probably explained the increase in heart rate that time! Didn't make me any less embarrassed, though!

My blood pressure and pulse are almost always elevated when I'm at the doctors office getting seen, and it doesn't matter which doctor's office I am at either whether it's Doc's or someone else's. Its not because I am all that excited to be there, quite the opposite actually because I have white coat syndrome. You would think as a nurse working around doctors all day it wouldn't bother me, but it does, and probably always will.

Mashie

I don't develop a rapid pulse at the doctors. Perhaps that's because I'm barely alive these days. Seriously I'm not overly fond of going to the doctor but it doesn't bother me much. It also doesn't titillate me either. I'm such a bore.

My heart is usually elevated at the doctor's office too. A couple different doctors have mentioned it when listening or looking at my chart. I just tell them it's white coat syndrome.

Due to my respiratory status and the medications I take to improve my breathing my heart rate is always rapid. I have found that most of the assistants do not believe my heart rate and generally document it in the 80's or 90's when it usually runs 110-130. Because my physician knows me he takes my pulse himself and does not get concerned unless its really elevated (160-180) and stays that way.

I'm not overly fond of going to the doctors but it really doesn't bother me that much unless I'm going for a gyne appointment.

I really try to ignore the doctor listening to my Heart as much as I can........which isn't much! I try to think of other things so my Pump doesn't jump out onto the doctor's Stethoscope! I love Hearts and Stethoscopes so much I'm surprised the doctor can't hear my Heart loud and clear from across the room without a Stethoscope!

Mine use to be high but over the years it finally became normal when having bp and pulse taken

Mine does in fact race. No matter how much I try to calm myself. I am a HUGE Cardiophile, and even more so enjoy taking a woman's BP and having mine taken, even though I have a terrible case of WCH. In clinical setting, there is nothing arousing about any of it. Too nervous to enjoy it. Last visit at my GP, BP was 180/100 I think. Didn't tells pulse, but had to be 120 if I was guessing. Lowest BP in clinical setting was 140/90 at a urologist office of all places. He actually stethed me as well at visit just before vasectomy. All 4 points as well. Pressed hard at Mitral....Assuming going for low frequency sounds. More thorough stething I've had since was in high school or before.

I've had WCH since around 8-9 years of age. Had an EKG at that same visit. Was the old school suction cups. Red rubber. I'm certain that's where my EKG fetish started. Was already into BP and stething by then. Tee hee. Had never seen an EKG before. Was terribly nervous whole visit and has never gotten better since. Again, nothing sexual at actual clinic. Have masturbated numerous times after a visit though. The nurses fingers on my radial, wrapping the cuff, her steth over my brachial. The lovely sound of the gasp and hiss of inflation bulb. The Velcro tightening. Mmmmmmmm. Watching her hand pp the bulb, controlling the valve. Meanwhile heart is POUNDING and can feel blood slamming under the cuff. Face gets red sometimes even. Spreads down to neck and chest. Terribly embarrassing. Anyone else embarrassed by WCH?????? I don't like my friends or family to know.......Embarrassing for whatever reason. Odd.......Course it all is to me.

My wife is only person on planet who can get an accurate reading on me. 120-135/75-80.

A really good friend of wife's, a FNP tool it at house one time and was like 135/85. Not bad for a med professional, though I think of her more as family than friend. That's how much time we spend with her. I joke with her all the time. Commenting on what kind of scope she has. She's impressed with my knowledge. Even asked wife one time if I get online and peruse scope models. Haaaaaa. If she only knew. She knows I have a thing for nurses. And knows we have atleast one very nice welch allyn cuff and a Littman Classic II SE. That's gotta tell her something about my attention to detail in a house with noes professionals😃

I'm curious about others with WCH. You embarrassed by it? Avoid Drs cuz of it? Do tell😃

If anyone has any questions for me, feel free😃

When bending over a receptionist's lap for injections in my youth, she commented that she could feel my heart throbbing against her thigh. The nurse cheekily asked if she was sure it was my heart she felt throbbing!

What's WCH? By the way if one is listening for low pitched sounds one should put the bell lightly against the chest. Otherwise pressure converts the bell into a diaphragm.

Liquidsky, I think WCH is a case of the white coat hots.

Oh my. I should have known. I should be so lucky as to be the recipient of it.

When I see my gynecologist during my appointments my heart races and I'm sure my blood pressure flies through the roof when he touches me lol

@Mashie Yeah, I also have white coat sometimes. Lately however, I've been good at suppressing it, and my vitals have been looking pretty normal at the office.

I don't have White Coat Syndrome and as such my pulse and blood pressure are not elevated at the doctor office.because I am not nervous when I enter his /her office.

I'm more concern with establishing a good rapport with the doctor and working towards treating the illness or alleviating the present symptoms especially if its a new doctor that I'm seeing for the first time. My philosophy has always been, Ok what can we do, how can we treat this, what steps do I have to follow etc.

Truthfully I'm more concerned with their knowledge, expertise, rapport , communication and diagnostic abilities, as when you are ill returning to good health is much more a priority.

Our goals are the same RN, I want exactly that, and I do get and obtain that. But that doesn't mean that for the first few minutes of every visit I am a little more than nervous, lol.

Mashie

I recall that on some examination my rate was abnormally high but the doctor put that on the account of examination stress.

It used to beat faster than normal, though not race but in the last several years I've been able to calm it down by just getting my mind on something else during a doctor visit!

Mine was 130-something while at the doctor last week. While laying down for the EKG, I was 111.

Yes, my heart pounds faster than normal at the doctor.

He comment it then with a: "Is there someone a bit nervous?"

Glad to see I am not alone! If I see a different doctor I always spend half the time making up an excuse that I have anxiety! It slowly starts as I walk to the office and goes full force once my name is called to come to the exam room. If only there were ways to slow it down and it would speed up my appointments! Granted it has led to extra stething in the past which is never a bad thing.

White coat syndrome. Not me. Even when I worked on a cardiac ward my heart rate stayed good. I actually hooked myself up for a day. Boy did I get a lot of volunteers to put the electrodes on. I just laughed and put them on myself under my top. My heart was perfect the whole day. When I took the monitor off I kept the electrodes on until I got home. I am a tease. But the rule is,"Never let your heart rhythm get worse than your patients".

Yes. Both my heart rate and blood pressure increase, and a murmur appears that isn't usually heard.

It's nearly cost me my job on a couple of occasions when an Occupational Health doctor hasn't liked what they're hearing and said no to my employment pending it being investigated. The investigations always came back as nothing to worry about.

I think mine does yes. No doctor has commented on it though.