Fun fact, 3 months after contracting Covid, I got heart palpitations and a persistent cough which have continued for 3.5 months. Maybe just age? I’m 40, working from home, no known environmental changes, no new drugs, no other symptoms, no history of similar symptoms (except colds, of course). 3-month delay suggests “not covid’s fault” but...weird! (Update: cough gone after 4.5 mo but heart palpitations now happen nearly every waking minute and heart rate frequently elevated; still, I have no good reason to blame Covid. Elevated heart rate was actually the first symptom—I can’t recall if it started before or after Covid, but I doubt it started at the same time, as I should have noticed in that case)
Could you clarify how long between the vaccines and the palpitations (etc)?
Sorry, I really can’t recall. I’m probably more out of shape than usual due to mostly staying indoors for the pandemic year. Also higher than usual anxiety due to work recently. That could almost explain my symptoms, at least at first. That’s why I thought nothing of it when it started, and also why I can’t recall exactly when it started.
I do have some sparse fitness tracker data from that period. From that, it looks like my resting heart rate became elevated the week of the first dose, and has persisted until now. The two months before that were noticeably lower. But that’s going by just a few manual readings per month, which is inconclusive.
I don’t have the cough, but I had the vaccine, not the disease.
I do have some sparse fitness tracker data from that period. From that, it looks like my resting heart rate became elevated the week of the first dose, and has persisted until now.
February averaged 71 bpm. March 68 (only one reading though). April, the month of both doses, 81. May 82. June 80. So maybe by 10-13 bpm. The data is pretty sparse though.
Fun fact, 3 months after contracting Covid, I got heart palpitations and a persistent cough which have continued for 3.5 months. Maybe just age? I’m 40, working from home, no known environmental changes, no new drugs, no other symptoms, no history of similar symptoms (except colds, of course). 3-month delay suggests “not covid’s fault” but...weird! (Update: cough gone after 4.5 mo but heart palpitations now happen nearly every waking minute and heart rate frequently elevated; still, I have no good reason to blame Covid. Elevated heart rate was actually the first symptom—I can’t recall if it started before or after Covid, but I doubt it started at the same time, as I should have noticed in that case)
Could you clarify how long between the vaccines and the palpitations (etc)?
Sorry, I really can’t recall. I’m probably more out of shape than usual due to mostly staying indoors for the pandemic year. Also higher than usual anxiety due to work recently. That could almost explain my symptoms, at least at first. That’s why I thought nothing of it when it started, and also why I can’t recall exactly when it started.
I do have some sparse fitness tracker data from that period. From that, it looks like my resting heart rate became elevated the week of the first dose, and has persisted until now. The two months before that were noticeably lower. But that’s going by just a few manual readings per month, which is inconclusive.
I don’t have the cough, but I had the vaccine, not the disease.
I do have some sparse fitness tracker data from that period. From that, it looks like my resting heart rate became elevated the week of the first dose, and has persisted until now.
By how much did your heart rate get elevated?
February averaged 71 bpm. March 68 (only one reading though). April, the month of both doses, 81. May 82. June 80. So maybe by 10-13 bpm. The data is pretty sparse though.