Does your heartbeat race when visiting the doctor?

In my early 20's, a year or two after leaving home, I registered at a new Doctor and asked for a physical. There was a bit of an uphill walk to get to the clinic and I was turned on by the idea of having a medical anyway, so by the time I arrived my heart was pounding with a mix of anticipation and nerves. (This was going to be my first adult physical). The examination was a basic over the waist exam, but as my heart was racing I got referred for an ECG. The ECG was ok and much less of a turn on as it wasn't with a young male doctor...

Oh YES!!! When my gynecologist examines me and listens to my heart it's always racing so fast and he always says "your heart is racing, Amy, are you nervous?" And of course I can't just come out and say "no, doctor, I'm just excited because I get to be examined from head to toe by you and I'm extremely turned on by male doctors and very fascinated with them" lol

Yeah, I have "White Coat Syndrome". My BP is always elevated at first when the nurse takes it. At the end of the exam the Dr. takes it again and I am always OK. It's a lot like the nerves I got before a final college exam; am I gonna get an "F", or pass it.

A receptionist/pa over whose lap I was bending to get my injections once commented that she could feel my heart throbbing against her thigh.

Every time my ob walked in ?

Sometimes I go for a physical just to get aroused. My heart races at 120 bpm. The docs think I have a heart problem. Also, my BP is always insanely high.

With so many reporting a racing heart while at the doctor's office, does this present any concern to your doctor? Or do doctors expect many patients heart rate to be elevated? I would think this could result in the prescription of unneeded drugs or the ordering of extra tests.

It has the tendency to do it every time especially during the blood pressure check

With so many reporting a racing heart while at the doctor's office, does this present any concern to your doctor? Or do doctors expect many patients heart rate to be elevated? I would think this could result in the prescription of unneeded drugs or the ordering of extra tests.

I would think the doctor would discern & consider the patient's demeanor. There was one doctor who had me borrow & take home a battery operated blood pressure monitor, and told me to pick a quiet time to measure my blood pressure to try to get a true reading. He considered that it could be measured during times of stress. I had told him that I hadn't had it as high as it was reading at the time.

Yes, if I am going in for a prostate exam which I have every 90 days as a preventative measure as my prostate cancer went into remission in 2008 then came back in 2015 but is gone again with very good PSA readings. The suspense of whether she is going to do a full prostate exam or not weighs on my mind and when I get to the office my heart is racing and I can't help smiling at her like an idiot. She is always very professional but her touch, no matter how professional, is so gentle and loving, there is no comparison to a male doctor doing the same thing. Very close to heaven I suppose.

YES IT DOES

Always, no matter what I do when I go to the Dr. my blood pressure is elevated and pulse, when at home when relaxing my pulse rate can go as low as 44-54 bpm, at te Dr's its through the roof, not that I go often, I just hate the environment, and hate having to negotiate myself out of being there

Oh yes it does!! Actually my heartbeat is really slow around 55 bpm but when I am relaxed it also can be in the low 40's. But when I visit my doctor my heart just races. Most time the doctor isn't in the room when I enter it, so I try to take deep breathes to calm it down but to no avail.

I was there once telling her about my slow heartbeat, and she took my bp (automatic device unfortunately 😉 ) and it showed a heartrate of 104. So we both laughed because I told her it is usually slow but not now.

So I ended up with an 24 hour bp cuff 😉

Always races away at the Doctors, blood pressure also goes sky high.

Yes, at several times before and during an exam my heart rate increases. Some over the anticipation, and some over something actually happening.

One time, in a university anatomy & physiology class, my lab partner and I were using a blood pressure cuff with pulse monitor. I was hooked up to it, when the teaching assistant came over. The read out showed a marked increase in my pulse rate, and I began to blush a little. We all laughed. That then became the basis of a fantasy I had for quite a while after, of me being monitored by classmates and that teaching assistant, but wearing considerably less.

Always when I go to the doctor my heart rate climbs to over 100bpm! I was already sent for a Holter exam (basically wearing a portable EKG machine for the whole day) which showed nothing abnormal. So yeah, it's just when going to the doctor (or doing intense exercise of course).

My blood pressure is also higher at the doctor's office than at home.

Always my BP is always soaring too, bottom line I don't feel relaxed there and hate being looked at

Mine always does ... they always ask me if I had any caffeine before the visit because my heart is racing.

One time a cute nurse who was listening to my heartbeat jokingly asked me if i was nervous while she was listening to my heartbeat during a physical. She could tell right away that I was nervous and it made my heartbeat even faster

I am aware once I enter the exam room I know my heart begins to race. A combination of anxiety, nervousness and white coat syndrome overcome me. Part of me is excited to be inspected and analyzed. Part of me anticipates humilation. I always find it difficult to relax.

Yes it does and I love it

Sure, it races and the BP is also not normal .... 😃

Definitely it does.

A few years ago before I had my mitral valve repaired, my heart would be racing and my blood pressure was very high. It was more nerves than anything. Now it's normal. I do get a little nervous still in the doctor's office.

Yes definitely does, the Doctor commented on it during my last exam along with my raised blood pressure reading.

My heart races always when i visit the doctor, specially when i know i get a heart and lung ausculation. the doctor says always that my blood pressure ist high when i get nervous.

When we are anxious, don't we feel our heartbeat loudly, even without placing our hand on our chest (generally we never feel a prominent heartbeat, right, we just know it's there and that's why we are alive and breathing)

When I am very anxious I can feel the heartbeat. That's normal for me. The incident I was talking about was that of my first gyn exam, hence the anxiety.

Yes I usually get nervious when seeing the doctor so it does a little. If the doctor is female and I am going to be getting a psyhical or anything that might involve my pants being down then yes my heart beats very fast.

I even had a lady doc check my pulse and breathing a couple times to make sure it was normal. But I feel more comfortable with a female doctor for any kinda exam involving my clothes being off.

I had a man doctor who used to give me pshyicals and he would lift the band of my underwear and peek inside and sometimes touch and feel of me. I didnt like it at all and i would feel a chill come all over my body and intense uneasy feeling. But when i have a female doctor or nurse look at me down there im still a little nervious but dont have the uneasy feeling. Even if she is old enough to be my mom and I dont find her attractive. I am more comfortable with her looking and touching me down there then a man but my heart will still beat fast.

By the time a physical begins, I have panicked for a few days anticipating the dreaded event. I have spent time sitting in the waiting room wondering anxiously how the exam will be done and how thorough it will be, been called back to an exam room by an office staff member, had vital signs taken, and been told to undress.

When the doctor first puts his stethoscope on my chest, my heart is racing. I have had several doctors inquire about my level of anxiety which makes the situation even more embarrassing because he knows I am afraid of the exam.

When I was in high school and getting sports physicals in the locker room, my heart went crazy. The setting and not quite knowing what was going to happen did it. The doctors always commented on it and asked if I was on any meds. I just said that I had run from an appointment with a teacher because I didn't want to be late for the physical. That seemed to satisfy them. Not sure they were too concerned anyway. Every guy passed those exams. When I was in my 20s, dr's office exams where I was stripped to underwear made me nervous, and I'm sure my heart was racing. Now, all the docs have me in a gown or just shirt off. I am pretty relaxed, and also avoid coffee in the hours before the exam. I'm sure if I ever get another doc who has me almost naked from the start, my heart will race.