Probably the thousanth post on this subject, but I´d really appreciate reactions...

[snordfjord]

I've been "suffering" from acid reflux for two years. Whenever I feel the discomfort of said reflux, I almost always feel heart palpitations, sort of like skipped beats (it feels like an air bubble bursting in my chest). My doctor put me on medication called Omeprazol. This relieves the acid part of the reflux, but does not remove the reflux itself, nor does it do anything for my palpitations. These palpitations never occur when I´m standing up or when I´m just recently awake. But when I´ve eaten and sit down in a reclining position or lying down, I feel those skipped beats and i can feel those skipped beats when I check my pulse on my neck. I´ve had a sonogram of my heart and everything checked out fine (a year ago). there is no sense of feinting, nor do I have fluid build-up in my extremeties, but when Iie down at night I feel this pressure on my chest and those skipped beats. Can anyone shine a light as to why?

[MIserableinKy]

When my acid reflux hit me 17 years ago, it suddenly felt like my food was getting stuck and it felt like I had something stuck in my throat. My children were almost 2 and 6 months old at the time. (I will try to keep this short. This will relate to your problem. :)) Every dr. I went to wanted to say it was my nerves causing my problems because my children were so young. This made me furious them blaming my babies! I knew how I was feeling and it was not from my nerves or my children! I could not find any help! It got so bad that I was mainly eating soup and mashed potatoes. One day my heart rate went up to 140 bpm and I ended up spending the night in ICU at my local hospital. I was put on cardizem and the dr. said it's probably your nerves and wanted to give me xanax to help the "food getting stuck" problem. I took the cardizem for 6 months. (But not the xanax) (Even though all my heart tests were fine. I had no heart trouble at all. Finally....... I went to my ob/gyn and told him what was going on. He said, "Have you ever seen a Gastroenterologist?" "Why didn't they call a GI when you were in the hospital?" He sent me to a GI dr. He did an EGD and guess what? I had a very inflamed esophagus. I was put on prilosec and a few months later, i was fine! I went back to my cardiologist because I was still on the cardizem. I told him what I was finally diagnosed with. He acted a little embarrassed. He said I haven't helped you at all. This is were it now may have something to do with your palpitations. He told me that there are nodes in your esophagus and when they get inflamed it can cause your heart to beat fast. I also have those heart palpitations at time. I have been told they are hereditary (My mom and her dad do and did this) But also I can tell if my acid reflux is really bad, I will have those palpitations. I have taken meds for the acid reflux for the entire 17 years. I have recently had another bad attack of acid reflux where my food was getting stuck after gaining some weight through the holidays. I am now trying to lose the weight, I'm back on prilosec after zantac quit working and now am doing much better. ( A side effect of Zantac is heart palpitations also.) But, yeah sometimes at night I have to move around to get the skipped beats to stop.
PS My babies are now 19 and 17. :)
I hoped this helped. It is funny how one problem can cause something else to flare up when it seems they are unrelated.

[tiffthom300]

Hi, I have had the same thing for over 10 years.  dr said it is acid reflux, I have had a couple EKGs and its all fine.  even my thyroid is fine.  He told me its all in the same track is why when we get reflux this happens.  Its scary at first then you get used to it.  I also have anxiety which makes it worse also, when im angry or anxious it happens more.

Try to hang in there.

[selmaS]

HI....I was having the same issues and thru elimination I found I had Hashimoto's thyroiditis in addition to my reflux.....

Have u had a reg test for thyroid?......to get results for Hashimoto's , it is a bit different in u need more than just the TSH u also need the Free T3 anad Free T 4 plus TPO antibodies.


U may want to look at this.

"selma"