Heart Rate Question

[DLH]

Ok, it has been a while since I have been to the forum and posted. I am now 10 months post op (mital repair) and everything has been going well. I am still riding around 125-150 miles a week and staying active. However, I wanted to get feedback from other active members on their heart rates. Prior to surgery my HR was in the 60s or lower, but my BP was border line high. Right after surgery I noticed my BP was a lot lower but my HR was higher in the 90s. Now I thought that it would come back down with all of my training, but that has not been the case yet. Has or is anyone else experiencing this? Other than that everything has been well and on my last echo it showed no leakage.

 

[MarkU]

It took almost a year for my HR and BP to stabilize after my AVR. Prior to surgery my resting HR was around 68 bpm. Immediately after surgery it was up in the 80's for quite a while. Now almost six years after surgery and after three years of aerobic triathlon training, my resting HR is 42-44 bpm.
Never saw much change in my BP, fortunately it's always been relatively low.

Mark

 

[tommy]

I was sedentary going into AVR surgery and went through cardiac rehab for 12 weeks. I recall 90 BPM for a few months after surgery but stopped paying attention when it came down.

Several years later, in the 60's I started to exercise. Resting rate has come down steadily since. Now in the upper 40's.

I sometimes spike into the 50's, even upper 50's. I was attributing the rise to exercise intensity the day before, but now attributed it to diet. High sugar and fats with the evening meal or night snack seem to be the culprit (I know - don't do that).

You sound like you are doing very well. I suspect that you HR will be coming down. No guarantees, of course, but the signs are great.

 

[BillCobit]

Hi DLH

Like you, my RHR was in the high 50s before surgery (almost 5 years ago), now it's in the high 70s. My blood pressure has been lower as well. After all of this time, I conclude it's become my permanent baseline.

 

[kodi]

Like most all the other threads this is of interest to me. I had read on some of the other posts about the higher heart rates and I guess that must be the norm. It will be interesting to see how I fare. For the past 20 years or more, my resting rate has been 40 and sometimes lower. When it reached 42 or 43 I knew a rest day was in order. Last year my card had me on a monitor 24 x7 for 30 days. There were times during the night that it would drop into the high 28s. I never worried about it and the cards can't find anything wrong so just accept the fact that it is slow and strong. My biggest fear right now is that when they do surgery they might want to slap a pacemaker in me.

 

[mntbiker]

My RHR was 45 presurgery. It was up around 90 for the first week or so and now over 3 months later it is still in the upper 50's and it goes very easily into the 60's. The heart went through quite a bit of trauma, I would expect it to take time to recover.

Sounds like you are putting in some pretty good mileage. Are you staying in your aerobic range or pushing to the anaerobic? that will make a difference on how quickly the HR comes back down also.

Congratulations on the good echo.

 

[DLH]

Sounds like you are putting in some pretty good mileage. Are you staying in your aerobic range or pushing to the anaerobic? that will make a difference on how quickly the HR comes back down also.

I am pushing to anaerobic. My rides usually average around 25-45 miles @ 20+/- mph and my HR average for the ride will end up at 155-160 bpm. On climbs and sprints it will get up to 180s.