Palpitations

[DKDD]

Like so many others I have been diagnosed with GERD and also suffer heart symptoms, often at the same time as a reflux attack. I think my heart always has skipped beats, even as a kid. And when I would run really hard my chest would hurt really badly. I get nasal and bronchial seasonal, pet dander, and dust allergies. I do get IBS - mostly caffeine and/or food allergy related diarrhea - (that too was diagnosed with medical tests.) I have high cholesterol, genetically, and take meds that act in the digestive tract, since my liver and statins don't get along. And, I have an underactive thyroid - that I take thryoxin for. And by the way, Prilosec is fairly useless for a particularly bad acid attack. I prefer Prevacid - it just works better. I have had diagnostic heart work ups and everything is always normal - even the horrendous chest pain that radiates down my left arm while doing a stress test on the treadmill. My doc actually got to witness the tail end of an episode of my heart palpitations once and it was attributed to being highly sensitive to caffeine (which does truthfully aggravate every problem I have) but I recently had an attack of palpitations, (which is when the heart beats so fast and hard it shakes the couch I'm sitting on - and it is painful), when I had just taken my Prevacid and had no caffeine. I noticed that the episode stops when I finally burp. I am positive there is some connection between digestive track pressure on the vegas nerve and the heart rhythm/chest pain problems. I am not given to anxiety nor panic attacks. I am the calmest person you'd ever want to meet - I keep my head when others are losing theirs. I am as logical as Mr. Spock ever was. I am in a fairly happy mood most of the time. This is no anxiety problem - it is something muscle spasm or "pressure" related  in my plump upper abdomen that is going on and it involves that vegas nerve and then also messes with the beating of my heart. I suppose it is harmless, but it surely is not pleasant or convenient to live with.


This discussion is related to acid reflux and pvc's.