heart racing hours after eating

[greensoup]

not sure if this is normal but i chowed down an XL pizza about 2-3 hrs ago. i was lying down just resting and i could feel the vibrations of my body against the bed beating like 2x per second. sets me at a 120 heart rate. is this normal occurence?? 120 is really high

[armoredvan]

That is high but it's not much higher than the upper normal range. But yeah, that describes me as well. Food is a metabolic stimulator plus your entire digestive tract wakes up and all of it needs an increased blood supply to function under this increased demand.

[FK86]

not sure if this is normal but i chowed down an XL pizza

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[jeffro]

A resting HR of 120 is by no means "normal" I have never heard of pizza induced tachycardia either, unless you got crack cocaine toppings that is. You will have to elaborate a bit more about yourself, are there any other contributing factors you would like to add? what is your normal resting HR? any medical problems? etc..etc..

[armoredvan]

A Google search will show you it's not that uncommon but I'd like to know what your resting heart rate is normally. 120bpm is I little too high for my liking.

"Like the many physiological changes that accompany swallowing and digestion, an increase in your pulse is usually a natural side-effect of eating."

"a small increase in heart rate can be seen from the changes in blood flow as you begin to digest a meal."

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It is normal to get an increased heart rate after a meal as the heart has to pump more blood to the stomach. The bigger the meal, the more the stomach has to digest and the faster the heartbeats."

[phoenix13]

When I overeat, my HR is elevated to the point that it is distracting if at rest.

Emphasis on overeat.

[jeffro]

When I overeat, my HR is elevated to the point that it is distracting if at rest.

Emphasis on overeat.

interesting, I have fed my face to the point of being very uncomfortable on several occasions, but have never felt like my heart was racing.

[greensoup]

just did a quick test using the pulse on my wrist, 20 beats in 20 seconds. so maybe ~60BPM? i guess im back to normal now so it must have been the giant meal, loads of sodium or loads of fat.

yes it was an XL 7 topping pizza from papa john's with 1-2 garlic butter cups. i live in LA so every day the lakers play, LAKERS50 code gets us 50% off entire order. its 30% bigger than a large. ends up being 10$ and 4000 calories :o

im also on sauce right now but idk if that matters in regards to blood related things.

i ALWAYS foodcoma after a big meal but this was the first time i paid attention to the beat frequency. i eat 1-2x a day but large meals.

[armoredvan]

My heart will bound quite a bit when I overdo it with Americanized Chinese food.

Now that I think about it, isn't the "meat sweats" phenomenon due to this same reaction?

On a semi-related note, anyone else experience this: I can eat a very large amount of steak tips, bacon, sausage, even a large meat-covered pizza, anything that's loaded with saturated animal fats and I WILL wake up with a (sorry, embarrassing) rock hard erection.

It's happened so many times I can predict it without fail. I even tell my wife what to expect : )

[Kidrok (Hop)]

When I overeat, my HR is elevated to the point that it is distracting if at rest.

Emphasis on overeat.

overeat AND high sodium.

[Sammich]

overeat AND high sodium.

I've noticed the same thing with big ol' cheat-ish meals, also. I always chalked it up to eating a lot of carbs. You're saying it's the combo of large quantities *and* high sodium?

[Kidrok (Hop)]

I've noticed the same thing with big ol' cheat-ish meals, also. I always chalked it up to eating a lot of carbs. You're saying it's the combo of large quantities *and* high sodium?

For me, absolutely. If I eat a lot of anything high sodium I can feel my heart thumping hard in my chest and head. Of course I have HBP ad am on meds for it so that may make me more sensitive to that combination.

[greensoup]

i've always had low blood pressure but i haven't checked in months and have since gained ~20-25 lb so i'll see if there's any correlation

[Collabera]

Personal experience with eating an entire Dominos pizza with a liter-a-cola is a high HR but nothing near 120bpm. It is especially noticeable when I become relaxed. Did you actually measure your HR with something, count it yourself, or are you just guessing?

[greensoup]

Personal experience with eating an entire Dominos pizza with a liter-a-cola is a high HR but nothing near 120bpm. It is especially noticeable when I become relaxed. Did you actually measure your HR with something, count it yourself, or are you just guessing?

i didnt measure but i was coutning/guessing in my mental haze of fatness

trying to remember the tempo again, might be ~100bpm instead of 120bpm

it's really weird that 1 second passes a LOT faster than i remembered