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Palpatation and high pulse rate
Sometimes around my menstraul cycle I get a lot of palpatation and then my heart will race up to about 140. I am a 27 year old female with one daughter and I have been trying to conceive again until this started happening. When this happens my arms and chest get tingly and I feel like I am going to pass out. Each time this happens my potassium has gotten low. I do not have an eating disorder and I eat an okay diet. I have been trying to eat more potassium. Also, I am tired A Lot, moody, headaches. I have worn a holter monitor, had an echo, and I am now on Inderal. All of the tests come back fine, just a really fast heart rate, do you think maybe this could be hormone related? And how do I make myself feel better about the outcome because now I worry constantly that it is going to happen again because it scares me so much when it does happen. I would be open to any comments and suggestions. Thank you!
I had almost the exact same experience that you are talking about. My heart would suddenly speed up and then suddenly go back to normal. I later had a sustained episode that wouldn't go back to normal and ended up in the ER and was diagnosed with "Sinus Node Re-Entry Tachycardia" a form of SVT. I am now on 50 mg. of Lopressor twice a day and I have my life back!! That medicine has made a world of difference in my life.
Also, I have anxiety and had thought for years that my anxiety was what was making my heart do that, but come to find out it was the SNRT that was causing my episodes - not the anxiety. I do have anxiety, but that was not the cause of my episodes. Please follow your instincts and if you feel like it needs to be checked out, make an appt. with a good cardiologist and have the basic EKG, echo and Holter. Good luck to you!
Also, I have anxiety and had thought for years that my anxiety was what was making my heart do that, but come to find out it was the SNRT that was causing my episodes - not the anxiety. I do have anxiety, but that was not the cause of my episodes. Please follow your instincts and if you feel like it needs to be checked out, make an appt. with a good cardiologist and have the basic EKG, echo and Holter. Good luck to you!
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thanks for the info. I havbe not had thousands in a day and I pray often that it never gets that bad. How was the ablation procedure? My cardio is not into doing that because they are benign. But , it would be so nice to have them go away!!! and since I had a catheterization last summer for a artery spasm, I am not scared or uncomfortable about doing ablation. I would like to just live like every one else and not have to feel my heart skip all day long!!!
thanks for the info. I havbe not had thousands in a day and I pray often that it never gets that bad. How was the ablation procedure? My cardio is not into doing that because they are benign. But , it would be so nice to have them go away!!! and since I had a catheterization last summer for a artery spasm, I am not scared or uncomfortable about doing ablation. I would like to just live like every one else and not have to feel my heart skip all day long!!!
I wore a monitor for 24 hrs and found about 3,500 pvcs. I really only bothers me at night when I lay down for bed. It has been going on for 12 years now and I take nothing. I have learned to live with it and sleep fine. My question is I was tested in 2002 do I need to ever be retested or I know I have pvcs for the rest of my life?
Just wanted to know if anyone has noticed that the pvcs show up after a complete hysterectomy,
I think that about a year after that is when all this trouble started.
I am 46 with high bp, I just counted my pvc's about 15 in a minute. They go in two's stop, fours stop. I never have anytime that I don't have them. They are for sure very annoying.
I have now started have a constant ringing in my ears. I take xanax for the palps and for the ringing. Atenol and hyzaar, and they just started me on a new antidepressent Lexapro and another water pill.
I feel like a walking pharmacy.
You all probably might like to know that my name on here is not lak because I lak in pvcs. Just my intials. Any comments are welcomed!
I think that about a year after that is when all this trouble started.
I am 46 with high bp, I just counted my pvc's about 15 in a minute. They go in two's stop, fours stop. I never have anytime that I don't have them. They are for sure very annoying.
I have now started have a constant ringing in my ears. I take xanax for the palps and for the ringing. Atenol and hyzaar, and they just started me on a new antidepressent Lexapro and another water pill.
I feel like a walking pharmacy.
You all probably might like to know that my name on here is not lak because I lak in pvcs. Just my intials. Any comments are welcomed!
Also, the beats can immediately drop back to normal. Like shifting your car back into the original gear. Slowly ramping down sounds more like anxiety, but I would have to ask the doc.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Hi. From your posts, not sure you get this yet.
If the pulse goes up instantly (takes only a beat or two to reach 140), then its a sign of abnormal tachycardia. If it ramps up over serveral seconds or minutes, then its proabably a response to adrenalin, which means its not heart related, but caused by panic or anxiety.
In going from normal beat to tachycardia, its more like an automobile shifting gears. At once, there is a sudden change in the way your heart is performing. If anxiety related, its more like using the accelerator pedal (assuming you dont stomp on it!!!). It slowly speeds up...
Dont worry about the abbreviations. A lot of these abnormal tachycardias turn out to be relative non-issues anyway. But when your ticker is acting up, you want to know what is going on...
If the pulse goes up instantly (takes only a beat or two to reach 140), then its a sign of abnormal tachycardia. If it ramps up over serveral seconds or minutes, then its proabably a response to adrenalin, which means its not heart related, but caused by panic or anxiety.
In going from normal beat to tachycardia, its more like an automobile shifting gears. At once, there is a sudden change in the way your heart is performing. If anxiety related, its more like using the accelerator pedal (assuming you dont stomp on it!!!). It slowly speeds up...
Dont worry about the abbreviations. A lot of these abnormal tachycardias turn out to be relative non-issues anyway. But when your ticker is acting up, you want to know what is going on...
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