A racing heart upon waking

As we all know, the human heart is beating at a certain frequency all the time, which promotes blood circulation inside the body and speeds up the body's metabolism. However, due to some reasons of the human body, the heart rate may increase, such as after intense exercise or being too nervous. However, some people in life report that their hearts beat violently when they wake up. What is going on? Let’s take a look with the editor, find out the reasons, and then prescribe the right remedy.

Reasons why your heart beats violently when you wake up:

If your heart beats too fast when you wake up, it may be because you are too stressed. Stress can increase arousal, leading to a faster heart rate and higher blood pressure, even when we’re sleeping. Another situation is that the caffeine or certain drugs you consume remain in your body for more than 6 hours, which can cause tachycardia. In addition, being suddenly awakened by nightmares or noise while sleeping can also affect the heartbeat.

What to do if your heart beats violently when you wake up:

Generally, you can improve your heart rate by reducing caffeine intake, relieving stress in time, and ensuring adequate sleep. If you often have a tachycardia when you get up, accompanied by shortness of breath, dizziness, or if anyone in your family has heart disease, you need to have a heart examination and get your doctor's advice.

An accelerated heartbeat during sleep, pathological tachycardia, common examples include sick sinus syndrome, and compensatory accelerated heartbeat after myocardial damage caused by various reasons. These are manifestations of myocardial ischemia and left ventricular failure. Heart failure (HF) is an abnormality of cardiac systolic and diastolic function caused by various etiologies, so that when the circulating blood volume and vasoconstrictive function are normal, the blood pumped by the heart cannot meet the needs of tissues, or can only meet metabolic needs when the ventricular filling pressure increases. At this time, neurohumoral factors are activated to participate in compensation, forming a clinical syndrome with multiple characteristics of hemodynamic function directing and neurohumoral activation.

Cause: It may be due to high blood pressure, myocardial ischemia, or left ventricular dysfunction. In order to adapt to the body's greater demand for blood after the increased activity, the heart rate increases to supply more blood from a static state to an active state, from a low-exercise state such as walking to a high-exercise state such as running. In addition, from lying to sitting, standing, and from sitting to standing, the heart rate also needs to be increased because the heart needs to raise the blood pressure to a higher level.