Weird rhythm problem

Anyone else have this strange thing happening with them? When i am doing regular chores my heart rate will go crazy. Like Slowly painting a wall,  washing the deck, or fixing something thats broken, whatever chores it may be. Yet doing stationary bike will not take my heart rate that high at all, it seems my upper body movement is involved in increasing my heart rate very inappropriately.

[ed34]

If I stand on the spot and lift very heavy objects, swing my arms round for 10 minutes etc, nothing much seems to happen to me. Once anything involves leg work, I'm screwed. I'm amazed at how much extra work the heart has to do for legs to be involved.

[allene916]

I have PAT, when I turn suddenly..it throws my heart-beat into a skipping ordeal..for few minutes..use to ...longer like 20 minutes..now 5 minutes and then it will snap..back to normal..I'm bothered by faint skips...constantly...bending..or doing nothing.
It is scary.

[LindaTX]

I have a theory that all of these arrythmias we all deal with are connected to Vagus nerve problems.  Maybe weaknesses occur along the long path of the Vagus and each person is affected in a different way and area. Does that sound really far out? I'm currently trying to read as much as I can about this most interesting nerve. I think it's the longest nerve in the body and it innervates the heart, stomach, esophagus and I think a couple other organs.  So there must be some kind of connection, especially since the Vagus nerve controls heart rate, as well as acid production.  It regulates the immune system and digestion.  If its overstimulated, blood vessels dilate and the heart slows down. Also when its over-stimulated, it throws extra electricity out the path of least resistance..to the heart. So there!  

[ed34]

Just as a matter of interest, when the chest is opened for bypass surgery, would the vagus nerve be intefered with?  Most of my problems have started since I had bypass surgery.

[LindaTX]

I would say yes, but I'm no Dr. I have read that for some conditions they actually used to cut the Vagus nerve (vagotomy) but I'm pretty sure they don't do that anymore.  I read this: "The vagus nerve does not innervate through the ventricles, only the sympathetic nervous system by way of the cardiac plexus.  Peripheral Chemoreceptors (Aortic bodies in the Aortic Arch) monitor pO2--the Aortic bodies are supplied by the Vagus nerve--send nerve impulses to the Medulla (brainstem) to increase respiration when pO2 falls.  Centers are sensitive to both pO2 and ph. There is something called VBLOC which is Vagus Nerve Blocking Therapy, not sure what that entails. If the Vagus is overstimulated, blood vessels dilate and the heart slows down. Vagal stimulation will aggravate the degree of AV Block.  Autonomic neuropathy, from Diabetes, injures the Vagus Nerve. There is a test for C.A.N. (cardio autonomic neuropathy).  You might understand this part, I don't...AVBlock caused by excessive stimulation by the Vagus nerve (which depresses conductivity of the junctional fibers) destruction of the AV Bundle due to coronary infarct, depression caused by various drugs, atherosclerosis.  I do know the Autonomic Nervous System consists of the Sympathetic and the Parasympathic, which the Vagus nerve is part of.  I've got a notebook full but I haven't been able to devote much time putting it all together.  Like I ever will.  Anyway, I think the Vagus nerve serves as one long chain of effects.

[LarrytheAstronaute]

Interesting, for me its upper body, i can walk in the mall for an hour without much problem, but if i use my arms for more then a minute i am "screwed". It ***** to never get an answer especially when ur heart rate coincides with chest pain.

[brookelh]

hello all..i am new to this.  about a year ago i started to feel heaviness in my chest, along with a strange "thumping" in my esophogus area.  i don't really know if that is the proper word to describe the sensation i feel, but i can't seem to tag any other word for it.  there are times when it is very faint, and times when i think i feel a bit light-headed from it.  i have been to a cardiologist, who has diagnosed me with a very mild form of pulmonary hypertension, but he didn't seem to think the sensation i am feeling in my sternum area was any big deal.  it is to me, as i am a mother of two children, and i don't want to be home with them and something serious happen.  today i have had feelings of slightg tingling in my left hand..just the hand, not the arm.