Allergies and Heart Palpitations

[cmd182405]

Does anyone know if allergies can cause an irregular heart beat?  I have been having an irregular heart beat for several months.  It usually happens in the evening after dinner.  Many nights I go to bed with a heart beat that keeps me awake.  When I wake up it has stopped and I feel fine.  I have been to the doctor and had an ekg and an electrocardiogram and everything looks normal.  I have noticed in the past if I am exposed to a strong perfume or strong candle my heart will pound.

[Chuckt24]

I have had this problem for several years. My worst month is April, and I've also had issues in the fall. I believe this may be associated with three pollen in the spring and ragweed in the fall. But April is always the worst. I wore a monitoring belt one time, and the doctor told me I was having premature heartbeats. He offered no solution. When this same thing began to happen year after year at the same time, I began to suspect a link to allergies. And, like someone in a previous post, I've also experienced problems with fluid in my ears, which causes dizziness and lack of balance.

[RickSte]

This thread has made me feel so much better, I have felt crazy having a seasonal heart condition for the best part of 10 years.

I have been suffering from a combination of palpitations and irregular missed beats and it always starts around the end of March and dissipates by May. Then starts again to a lesser extent, for a few weeks in Oct/Nov.

I am physically fit middle-aged with a resting HB around  53 and  doing outdoor sports all my life and running most days. In fact I have often suspected that the condition was a result of overdoing some activity or other.

The episodes almost always occur in the evening while relaxing and they sometimes wake me up at night leaving me feeling breathless.
I am unsure whether it was the emergence of this condition which kicked of stress and insomnia or whether it just made it worse pushing me to the GP 7 yrs ago. They gave me all the heart tests they could with no answers and now just manage the insomnia.

I will now approach the condition with a  view to allergies and see if those med help at all.
Thanks for sharing.

[JrzB]

Glad to share experiences. Networking is the BEST way to figure things out. By the way, I also discovered that I am allergic to doctor's offices...(just kidding)...I am actually allergic to the cleaning chemicals they use. I ill-advisably agreed to a visit on a Saturday morning. They clean the patient-consultation rooms extra-thoroughly Friday evenings. The smell of the chemical drove me nuts. My bp is normally 120/80. They were measuring 150/90. I was astounded because I have been monitoring and graphing these numbers for years, and the numbers are quite stable, until the recent events.

[Glori19]

Oh my your story is so interesting! I had an ablation 5 days ago due to 3 SVT episodes in the past 7 years where I ended up in the ER. After the first SVT I was put on a beta blocker. Interestingly enough, when I met with the Cardiologist who specializes in electrophysiology, he asked me if my allergies and asthma were present prior to me starting the beta blocker. I was really taken back and wondering what that would have to do with anything. Now as I think about it, I was diagnosed with seasonal asthma after being on my beta blocker. I stopped my metoprolol after the ablation so it will be interesting to see my allergy and asthma issues change. I was shocked when I saw you had figured out what was causing some of your heart stuff and recalled I was standing over the stove cooking with hot oil when my 2nd SVT started. Amazing how everything must be connected. Thanks for sharing your story.

[JrzB]

Doctors the world over are CLUELESS because they do only what big pharma tells them to do. It is so much more profitable for bigbusiness to put you on expensive regimens, than find the root cause. I went through that whole gamut, with the AMA docs scratching their heads (and other parts of their anatomies) but I accidentally discovered the cause of skipped beats. As others above, I verified it with a simple design of experiments. Candle vapors, and burnt cooking oil set the skipping off. The concentration does not have to be high. I was in a nearly empty church last Sunday and the candle vapors first started burning my eyes and shortly after, thud--thud went my heart. I was never allergic to these substances earlier. I blame it on other medications I was recently subjected to by my Quack who is nothing more than a stooge for Big Pharma.

[Linfred]

I use Quercitin for my allergies and it works wonders.