Help with Heart Palpitations

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject: Help with Heart Palpitations

I have suffered from anxiety attacks all my life. Lately I have been
experiencing things with my heart and hope someone can shed some light.
I
feel my heart pounding in my chest almost all day long. It goes faster

whenever I do anything at all. At times it will start racing up to
130bpm.
I had to actually go to the hospital because I got so scared at one
point.
The hospital said they found nothing wrong. So I went to my
cardiologist,
did an EKG said it was perfect. Then I wore a halter for 24 hours in
which
the rapid heart rate happened twice. He said the results were fine.
He
said he will know for sure when I go and do the stress test and echo
next
week. So fare everything points out ok, but why am I getting these.
Can
anyone shed some light if you have experienced these as well?

Thanks so much,

Josell Paredes

Male Age39

dansawyeror · medicine forum beginner Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 12

Josell,

Palpitations are very common and can have many causes including micro attacks,
infections, and defects. It may be difficult to the root cause. Most docs are
only interested in determining if they are potentially dangerous, that is lead
to fatal fibulation. They may try symptomatic relief.

Dan

josell@hotmail.com wrote:

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VIDiot · medicine forum beginner Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

Man, you are "singing my song" here, I have gone through the EXACT
same thing, except my main Dr. (after 2-years of heart issues),
"finally" told me my x-ray showed I had a slightly enlarged heart.
But I have seen my cardiologist for over 2-years, he ran the same
exact test's, 2-3 times, and he sais everything's normal. Yet, for the
past few months, my palpations are now constantly happening. I cannot
"do" hardly anything... If I bend down and reach for the floor,
'wham', it happens, and every night, when I lay down on my side,
within 1-min, 'wham', I get a major palpitation. Getting upset,
stressed or raising my voice so someone can hear me from a distance
will cause my heart to skip. I often feel "anxious" and can even
'feel' like I'm going to have palpitations, before they happen.
Because of this I'm stuck in bed 95% of the time now, unable to
function normally, and I've put on another 20lbs, and I've weakened so
badly, that if I do anything physical for a short time, I get shaky
afterwards. I have even found certain foods, like chocolate and even
soda's (caffeine free, mostly, I have an ulcer and can't have
caffeine) will cause my heart to "race" and then have palpations at
some point.

Tomorrow, I'm going to see my main Dr., and DEMAND a new
cardiologist! I saw him last week, told him I was doing horrible, he
sais the same 5-words he always sais: "you're going to be fine", then
he shakes my hand and leaves... never telling me "anything" about
"anything"... he even dismissed my main Dr's comment about my slightly
oversized heart saying "I wouldn't worry about it". I want these guys
to consider a pace-maker... I've asked about it before and the idea
was 'brushed off' as nonsense?! if it'll give me back my life again,
then I am all for it!! I am a single parent/father of twin 18yo's,
this is stressful on them as well, and we have to live with their
grandfather, because I cannot work and support us completely on my own
with the income I get from not being able to work. I live in terror
damn-near every moment of everyday, because I know from my own
research on the web, that there are 'two-words' associated with my
condition in every page I visited, and they are "SUDDEN DEATH".
I can't help but feel like just because I'm "poor" I'm getting
3rd-rate treatment, and these Dr's could care less about me and my
life because I'm just "another sheep in the herd". All this just
"adds" to my stress which seems to just compound my problems.

I'm at my wit's end, and pray everyday that I'll feel "normal" once
again... being unable to function normally just stresses me out more
and more, and makes things worse. But the saddest thing is that my
Dr's have little or no compassion for my situation, and I can't help
but wonder if I shouldn't go to the hospital E.R. when things get bad,
even though I hate hospitals... in the hope's that when they keep
dragging my cardiologist in each time, that just "maybe" I'll finally
get his attention and some real treatment beyond 1-medication,
(propranolol; which is a beta-blocker. It helps, but it's losing it's
effectiveness).

I hope that you have better luck than I have, with your issues,
because none of us should have to live like this, and from what I've
read... anytime, anywhere, we could just drop-dead from heart failure
when I know damn good and well, there's "something" that can be done.

There was a guy, who climbed Mt Everest, who suffered from heart
arrythmia's, and had a pacemaker! So I say it again, there "IS" a way
to survive this, if only the Dr.'s would do something about it!

...that's the end of my sad story, more of a rant really. Sorry I
rambled but I felt the need to unload some stress.

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