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by Michael Sanford
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I think if more doctors had this problem they wouldn't take it so lightly. It is awfully hard to ignore your heart thumping and jumping in your chest. I have tried everything mentioned on these web sites:magnesium, exercise, antacids, deep breathing, etc. My cardio says these PVCs are not harmful. Really? I'd like for him to have them and "learn to live with them".
I also get anxiety often, iv been to the doctors plenty of times about this heart fluttering and it dosnt happen only when i have anxiety it can happen randomly. I even got a second opnion but they all said it is when you heart beats fast, then skips a beat to make it right again, and that it happens to everyone, some people are just more sensitive to feeling it, and its nothing to be overly concerned about, but everyones different.i would suggest having your doctor check it out but dont panic it happens to alot of pplHope it helps/at least makes you feel better <3
this article defintely helped me i have been getting flutter feeling for years im only 23 but have never had anything wrong with my heart i also have been suffering anxiety issues so reading this i def felt better after reading this article thanks alot =D im also a mum of 2 baby boyzzz
would anxiety be a reason for the heart flutters??
anxiety is a terrible feeling!!! I'm 32 and have has anxiety/panic attacks for years now off and on. when I get them, I have them for a few months and then they subside for about a year and then I get them again. It's very strange! I fear of dying and thats how it all started. I dont wanna die but have told myself we all die sooner or later and we need not to fear! easier said then done. anyways my heart never fluttered before until recently so I got really concerned, went to the doc and had ekg, 24 heart monitor, xrays, blood work and everything came back fine. doc put me on xanax, beta blocker, and prilosec for heartburn. we will see if this works. I dont wanna take meds but do I have a choice? excercise does work along with a nice walk, eating healthy, laughing with friends and not being lonely really helps!Maybe you have already discovered this by now, however, I started having panic attacks at 30 and it took me 2 years, ECG, holter monitors and many tests later to discover that I was intolerant to Soy products. I would have a soy latte, and I would have severe panic attacks and anxiety sometimes starting with one sip to happening 8 hours later - depending on the type of soy that I ate. Soy bean oil, tofu etc. Anyway, before trying meds, if you can, try an elimination diet and see if you are sensitive, intolerant or allergic to a type of food.
I have been dealing with a heart problem (undiagnosed) for about 2 years now. I started getting anxiety attacks about 10 years ago on the regular, but I have solved that problem.SIDENOTE: For anyone else who might be interested, the first step to solving anxiety is to eliminate as best as possible the things that CAUSE the anxiety attacks; you know your triggers well if you have them regularly enough. Secondly, I have found that worse than the triggers are one's inability to talk oneself down from the panic ledge (it's an absolutely horrible place!). Fear not, however. What I have found is that these thoughts that keep the attacks going, and help to bring them back, are like runaway trains. You can't train yourself overnight to control it, but if you practice stopping these thoughts DURING non-attack times, and then during attack times focus on ANYTHING else (although, sometimes, I admit trying to be distracted at first makes it feel worse), then eventually you will overcome this physiological call & response nightmare. I recommend seeing a therapist (I don't care what anyone says, if you can find an inexpensive one who you feel comfortable with, you'll feel SO much better). I also recommend not turning down SLIGHT sedatives (especially if you're anxiety attacks are on a schedule and you can predict them and take the sedative one half-hour before the attack occurs) but I wouldn't recommend beating this disease (read dis-ease *wink*) with drugs alone. You need to attempt to beat the brain at it's own game, and each of us has the power to do this if we excercise our determination and KNOW that we can stop it...I'm living proof of that.Anxiety attacks aside, two years ago my heart did what felt like a flip-flop or "jump" in my chest and simultaneously I had to catch my breath as though the wind had been knocked out of me. At the time, I was under stress, smoking, drinking and consuming caffeine in my regular habits, although I had had no anxiety attacks for years. At first this heart "flip-flop" and gasping for air happened only once in a couple month period, but I find it happens more often as time goes by and especially when I am in a laying/reclining position. It made me very fearful to go to sleep, thinking that my heart my flip and I may stop breathing in my sleep and then subsequently die. (Again with this unhelpful train of thought of "what-ifs" LOL) I have decided to do some more investigating, since my doctor didn't seem overly concerned, and that is what brought me here. I hope my comments are helpful, and I hope to find out more info on the subject and thank you for posting your experiences.BTW I am going to get a new doctor ASAP!I am 62 years old and considered quite healthy. I exercise, eat right and have seen a cardiologist about the same exact thing you describe. I do not have heart disease they say and my nuclear stress test came back fine and my 24-hr. heart monitor showed a little bleep once in the 24-hr. period. The dr. was not concerned. It is frightening though. I do not want to be on meds, so I'll take my chances. It happens more frequently as I've gotten older.
I have panic attacks regularly. At first I was very very concerned about it, like everyone else I thought "o m f g I am dying". I am 24 I smoke and drink heavily so I was very scared the first time it happened, I thought that my debauchery of life caught up with me, but alas I am still here. After the 10th or 11th attack I started thinking, after much research, "you know what? Eff it. You wanna f&*k with me, bring it" (yes that is me talking to myself, it helps. I am my own therapist) and now whenever I get one, like right now, I go into war with my brain, heart, lungs, and feelings. It's a game between them and I. And I always win.Reading about it and researching it, is not only informative, but also fun and it keeps your mind off of the "bad thoughts".I found the "waking up thinking I am dying at 3 am" very funny, why does it happen at night? It's like the bastard knows we want to sleep and it wants to play. (Yes I even named my bastard, well bastard :D)Anyways this post, all of them were helpful. And reasurring.Keep up the fight with your 'bastards' ;)Ps to the doctors that say "keep calm, breath, think of other things" well with all your respect YOU ARE NOT FEELING THIS EVERY OTHER DAY SO UNTIL YOU DO, DON'T FREAKING TELL ME TO BREATHE AND RELAX! MY HEART IS BEATING OUT OF MY THROAT LIKE A MAD MAN! SO SUCK IT AND HELP ME.I have had this, I was up to drinking a 12 pack to a case a day . I found out over drinking deplete magnesium in your body. Magneseium defficiancy can cause panic attacks heart palputation and other symptoms. Look up Magnesium defficiancy.Also It is your drinking catching up with you, you must quit and never look back. If you ever prayed to God to help you stop drinking this is how. If drinking gives you this sense of doom and feeling of possible death it is your blessing. Because we loved to drink and would never stop on our owm if not for these panic attacks.I have been sober for 7 years now and do not have any panic attacks since. You will still have them even if you stop drinking until your body has detoxified and healed.I tryed 3 years later and had a drink well back came the panic attacks so you can heal yourself.I also saw a doctor and had been perscribed zanax for the panic attacks.Gook luck : )
I never experienced heart flutters until I had my second child then during my 3rd pregnancy I had them constantly. They are the worst. I had a full heart work up and I am fine. I just started taking the pill and they are coming back stronger, I'm hoping once my hormones level out they will stop. I 100% believe they are hormonal and my cardio agrees.Im 20 years old and have had heart flutters for as long as i can remember now. when i was about 16 i had my bloodpressure taken and it was high. I had an echo done and the heart was all normal normal size normal everything just a small heart murmur that can only be heard by few doctors. Anyway i was diagnoced with white coat syndrom wich is the anxiety in a clinic setting. My parents are doctors and i hear all there stories and stuff and it all just scares me to death and i allways think im ganna die wich has now turned me into a hypochondriac lol funny cycle. I hate going to the doctors and will only go if something seriouse happens. They tell me these so called "HEART FLUTTERS" are nothing and even my parents say there nothing just as your muscles get cramps ur heart gets fluters. Its calmed me down untill i get a flutter it stops my breath and just happens for 2 seconds goes away then happens 5 mins later for months later. Ive cut out caffein none at all. I smoke and it seems when i smoke too much bam i get heart flutters like crazy then i stop smoking for a few hours and all is good. I just had a few in the shower and googled it to put my mind at ease so when i go to sleep i can accually rest. To all that say it seems to happen at night well ur thinking about it so much u want it to almost happen and it makes ur heart go faster and the anxiety builds then bam flutter the thing u wanted to happen. 3 in the morning been there countless times. Sitting in one spot too long is the number one cause. And excersizing everyday works your heart and makes it stronger so when ur heart pounds from anxiety attacks its saying yea i can handle this now im strong and ur heart flutters will ease. With all this said live ur life in fear or not in fear but just know after this life you will live forever in heaven with no more flutters.I was told that my heart flutters were due to low iron while pregnant cause I had meat adversions and my heart was lacking much needed iron. I got a supplement and the flutters stopped. I'm a vegetarian now and still get the flutters even though I try to eat lots of dark greens but you can cut down on caffine to help.
Reading these comments are making me have a panic attack, thus making my heart freak out even more. :(this happens to me I.m o k till Iread about it then the flutters start
I think sometimes the causes of the heart fluttering, chest pain and just the out of nowhere pains of our body can be caused by ourselves allowing our own minds to get worked up over who knows what. It could have been something that @#$@#&*ed you off earlier and subconiously your mind is still thinking about, driving your body nuts and putting added stress on it. I have put my body through some pain over the years, from drugs, smoking, drinking, dipping, wrestling, extreme weight lifting, and emotional stress. I left for the military when i was 18 and loved it all except for the sudden feeling of loss of breath and the feeling of my heart stopping out of nowhere in the middle of the night. I would talk to my @#$@#&*mate when this would happen and it would usaully help. Then one night it went too far and i went to the hospital and the doctor thought i was having pre cursors to a heart attack and after doing all the tests you could possibly do he said it was stress. For years after i didnt want to believe it because that feeling is the worst feeling in the world. Many doctors later, i have come to realize i was my own worst enemy. I was allowing my problems with my family back home( father was a drug addict) to damn near kill me. I had kept a log on when these situations would arise and found out that they were all happening when i was going through stress. By the way recognizing the things that give you stress arent always that easy to identify or accept.Some of us have a hard time accepting the fact that we are stressed. Not to mention due to the weight lifting i had torn my shoulder which was giving referred pain in my left pectoral region ''sudden feeling of heart attacks". Now that i have dumped my built up emotions on this forum i come to realize something. If the forums help you relax, you probally dont have anything seriously wrong with you. Besides most people who say they have had a heart attack say that you will know when you are having a heart attack. So if you have had all the tests done and everything is normal, relax, breath, stay positive, exercise, eat right, put your emotions on paper, get enough sleep, dont smoke, stay away from stressful situations, do what makes you happy and remember you are not alone. This is a great discussion forum, all of your comments help.A most helpful and realistic comment, I will now go off to my doctors with what I suspect is a frozen shoulder or torn shoulder happy in the thought that I too have referred pain as what you describe is probably a mirror image of myself. I will stop stressing and worrying about what might be - which probably will never happen anyway, and get on and deal with what is. Thanks very much.
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