Can rapid awakening pulse be caused by vivid dreams or gerd?

CarpeNoctum wrote:Old Dude,
And while I'm sure you're aware of this, but just to provide the info for readers. Atrial flutter, PAT and other atrial arrythmias are irregular while a rapid pulse from an adrenal surge or central apnea would be rapid but regular.
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jnk wrote:

old dude wrote: . . . I was in the middle of a very vivid dream. Not a nightmare per se, but I was having a somewhat contentious discussion with some government bureaucrat. . . .

That meets my definition of "nightmare."

Just sayin'.

Anything can happen once or twice for any number of reasons. Such an event without the context of medical history, family history, and direct observation may or may not have significance.

Your body may have noticed something about your state at that moment that made the body think there was a reason to pump some panic-juice into you at that instant. Your body may have been right. Your body may have been wrong. If the body THOUGHT you were having an obstructive event, for example, even if you weren't, the body/brain is fully capable of hitting the panic button to get you from sleep to fight-or-flight. If the dream changed your breathing, your body may have overreacted. May.

But it happens for reasons completely unrelated to sleep-breathing, so any deeper meaning might only be found in an interaction with your doc if the "problem" happens often and disturbs you significantly.

In my opinion as nobody medical.

Julie wrote:I wonder if your doctor thought he'd withhold a cause until he'd investigated the problem, done some tests, etc., rather than just guessing (with nothing much to go on yet) which cause on your internet list might be the trouble? He knows the causes of A fib, doesn't need to be reminded, but without testing an individual, how can he choose which cause it might be? ]

Rob108 wrote:I agree with Jnk. I'm glad my doctors don't decide things on a whim. Shotgun approach to a diagnosis hardly ever pan out.

Old dude... My pulse rate pre-ablation was measured as going from 70bpm to 240+bpm instantaneously. It was beating so fast no oxygen was being delivered to my brain so next thing I'd realize was Iwas on t he floor or ground. Not fun & caused a whole lot of injuries

jnk wrote:A doc only cares about the cause when knowing that helps determine the treatment.

Docs diagnose and prescribe. They leave unrelated (to them, anyway) details to others. Docs may at times offer info for you to file under "hey, why not try doing blah, blah, blah to see if that helps". They may even have a handout or two full of such common-sense suggestions of what has helped other patients for some unknown reason. But these days, we have the internet for that sort of thing. So docs mostly just diagnose and prescribe, as they were taught in doc-thought 101.

Docs who admit their limitations, and the limitations of the science, are my favorite kind of docs. I like talking to the guy behind the curtain instead of the blown-up image with sound effects on the big screen.