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Heart Palpitations
SpongeCake
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I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm booking an appointment with my doctor first thing tomorrow, so please none of that pointless "Doctor, now" shit.
Alright, so I'm at work today and all of a sudden my heart starts flipping out and I get this fluttering sensation every 30 seconds or so. I've experienced the feeling before but it only happens once, and even then it's a rare occurrence- once a month maybe. Being terribly British, I don't want to cause a fuss so I stay quiet and after about 2 hours or so it stops, there's no pain, just this fluttering feeling and a general queasiness - I put it down to lack of sleep or some hypochondriac, psychosomatic bullshit.
A few hours later, on my way home I get another "attack", same symptoms. At this point, a GP appointment is certainly in order, but I want to know how freaked out I should be, and if there's anything I can do in the short term to cut this shit out - it's pretty annoying.
I'm in the "Ideal" BMI range, I do a fair amount of exercise, I don't take any medication or drugs, I'm not drinking any more coffee than normal and I have no known medical conditions.
What the hell is going on here dudes?
Edit: For added comedy value, I just read today's Toothpastefordinner.
Alright, so I'm at work today and all of a sudden my heart starts flipping out and I get this fluttering sensation every 30 seconds or so. I've experienced the feeling before but it only happens once, and even then it's a rare occurrence- once a month maybe. Being terribly British, I don't want to cause a fuss so I stay quiet and after about 2 hours or so it stops, there's no pain, just this fluttering feeling and a general queasiness - I put it down to lack of sleep or some hypochondriac, psychosomatic bullshit.
A few hours later, on my way home I get another "attack", same symptoms. At this point, a GP appointment is certainly in order, but I want to know how freaked out I should be, and if there's anything I can do in the short term to cut this shit out - it's pretty annoying.
I'm in the "Ideal" BMI range, I do a fair amount of exercise, I don't take any medication or drugs, I'm not drinking any more coffee than normal and I have no known medical conditions.
What the hell is going on here dudes?
Edit: For added comedy value, I just read today's Toothpastefordinner.
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Did it stop by itself? Because whenever this happens to me, I gotta go to the hospital, usually get some Sotalol under controlled environment until it stops (then again, I have a heart malformation so my case is more delicate).
Assuming you are under 35, it's unlikely that you have some kind of heart problem from the description you give. If you do, it would be genetic rather than caused by poor health.
Yeah, after a couple of hours it just cut out. The thing that has me most confused is the speed of the thing - I could understand if I'd gradually experienced it more and more over time, but this is from once a month to hundreds of times in a single day.
But there are so many different types of palpitations you'd have to really pay attention or know what you were feeling to be super specific what with all of the Atrial and Ventricular, Tachy's and Brachy's, Fibrillation, Flutter's and what have you... It would almost certainly be impossible to say one thing or another with any sort of accuracy.
Hopefully it was nothing, but it can be anything from stress or deficiencies of some kind to Heart Disease.
Not sure how much that helps but it is a pretty broad subject, the heart.
I'm going through some pretty hefty heart .... episodes lately. I get palpitations, chest pain and on Friday night, my arm went numb. I ended up going to emergency, but it turns out I wasn't in any danger. My heart was doing about 120 bpm and it was hard beats, like every heartbeat could be felt throughout my body. Sucks ass and is pretty terrifying.
Anyway, after numerous tests, the doctor told me it's something called a sinus rhythm and won't harm me. I'm hooked up to a portable monitor right now for 24 hours so they can review a longer term ECG and I'll be going in for more tests, but it's probably related to sleep apnea (Possibly, I'm being oxygen deprived at night, which is making my heart run hotter during the day).
Anyway, my point is that it could be anything, palpitations aren't necessarily a sign of something worse and lots of people experience frequent chest pain with nothing really wrong with them. So stay calm, think happy thoughts, and get it checked out.
She used to be able to have caffeine, but now anything like chocolate or the sort will throw her heart all out of sorts. I'm sure the Dr. will have more insight after hearing whats up.
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Monitor your caffeine intake CAREFULLY and hope for the best. I will be interested to hear what you find out from the doctor.
Good Luck
Me too. Now that I have pretty much cut out caffeine altogether, I can really notice it if I have a diet coke at lunch or something.