I have a fast heart rate all of the time(around 120s-mid130s) is this anything to worry about?
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Yes, it is something you ought to bring to the attention of your health care provider.
It may be something as innocuous as a fast metabolism (120 is stretching it... but anyway)
It may be as serious as a cardiac or electric defect.
Take care of you.
Hmmm. For how long now?
The answer is yes, but I'm slightly suspicious. If your resting heart beat is 120-mid130s all the time, you should be experiencing difficulty in relaxing, which would put you under a lot of stress. Your question seems to suggest that yours is 120-130 but you're not feeling strange.
What did you use to measure your heart beat?
If you're doing it manually, try setting a stopwatch to 30 seconds and then counting your beats while not looking at the stopwatch. You should be feeling for your pulse at your neck about an inch below your jawline. After 30 seconds, double the number of beats you counted and that is your heart rate.
If you've done this accurately, or if you're using an electric HRM and still getting 120-130 while still relaxing, make an appointment with your doctor. That's too high. A relaxed heart rate should be somewhere between 60-100.
If your heart rate is really that fast (tachycardia) you need to get to an ER immediately. Are you sure it's not more like 60 or 70 bpm and you're just counting it wrong?
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