Are Really Hot Showers Bad For The Heart?

[artluvr09]

I take really hot showers every morning. I usually take a 20 minute shower because its relaxing. But then I don't feel right afterwards. Like now I took one after 9 this morning and now I am lightheaded. This past week I have been having weird heart palpatations and fluttering and racing heart. I am on atenolol so t hat should stop those symptoms I have been on atenolol for a month or two now. I havnet had t hese problems in a long time. On Friday November 22nd I was lying in bed t hen I felt my heart beat strong and I felt it beat in my ear as well. Then Saturday morning I was in the shower and felt my heart beat strong and race. Then Saturday night I was trying to open the dang jelly and when I was using my strength to get it open I had a heart palpitation. Then last night I was lying in bed and I felt my heart kind of drop then flutter not the usual palpitations that I used to get. I have also been very forgetful this past two weeks and fuzzy. Im scared because my Grandma said that one of these days I am going to keel over in the shower. ( Note: she worries a lot ). But my other grandpas wifes son died in the shower with a heart attack. So im kind of nervous. Its weird I do not l ike luke warm or cold showers. but I guess I will have to make a adjustment. Does any one else get these symptoms?

[Katybug]

I've never read that it's bad for the heart. But, it does vasodilate you which means your blood can pool in your lower extremities easier and that's what most potsies are trying to avoid. When the blood pools, your heart rate goes up because it is working harder to get blood to your brain.