Heart jumping outside of chest

Age:22
Male
228 lbs (elevated BMI, Overweight by appx. 50lbs)
I've lost about 25 lbs until this happened.

I cannot sleep my heart gives me these palpitations and IDK why, Ive lost weight I eat healthy, I excercise, and whenever i close my eyes for a few seconds (or when I LIE on my sides when going to bed OR when I bend over) I get these EXTREMELY HARD thumps from the inside of my chest. I am so freigned to go to bed because of it. I tried sleeping while sitting in a chair and even then I cannot sleep. I have no chest pain. thought my chest does seem puffy, I also have a upper respiratory infection for which I took deoxycycline for a week and I still don't feel 100% cured from that I still have phlegm.

I tried taking magnesium supplements, D ribose, coenzyme Q10, fish oils all these together at once last night and I still couldn't sleep. I thought I might be anemic and took iron supplements (1 tablet) with a b complex (cyanocobalamin) and it did nothing. I ate garlic and still it wouldn't go away. Now here I am freighted to go to sleep so I decided to post here. I would've posted in the Drs section but i have no credit card. I can run and jog and I don't get any pain. I don't feel weak or anything. I'm not fatigued. I have a mucous cough with yellowish phlegm.

If anyone has any thing that can help me out please tell me. I just took a megadose of vitamin c for the infection.

[cindy707]

OMG heartuser0930 step away from the self diagnosing and medicating...step away.  you need to seriously stop what you are doing and go see a doc.  There is no way you are going to get thru this unless you do so that a doc can tell you what is wrong and for gosh sakes quit self medicating with the homepathic meds and supplements.  You are just tossing whatever into your body hoping it will catch something and it no doubt won't until a doc looks at you.  You could be hurting yourself by doing this and mixing all of these vitamins, supplements, homepathic meds, etc. into your body.  If your issues are having palps at nite there are a couple of things you can do until you see a doc ....cut out all caffeine...not just coffee...tea, any sodas with color in them other than root beer, no chocolate, lessen your sugar intake, no red wine, definately no energy drinks or anything loaded with electrolytes like gatorade type of drinks, drink lots of water because dehydration will set off palps like crazy, reduce your stress if possible, and FYI deoxycycline causes heart palps as one of the side effects.  I really wouldn't be afraid to go to sleep at nite at all because of palps....you can help yourself before you see a doc by not self medicating and staying away from anything that may be making things worse for you...sorry if i am so rough on you here but i worry about people on this site and we want to be able to see you posting in the future.......call a doc......

[cindy707]

OMG heartuser0930 step away from the self diagnosing and medicating...step away.  you need to seriously stop what you are doing and go see a doc.  There is no way you are going to get thru this unless you do so that a doc can tell you what is wrong and for gosh sakes quit self medicating with the homepathic meds and supplements.  You are just tossing whatever into your body hoping it will catch something and it no doubt won't until a doc looks at you.  You could be hurting yourself by doing this and mixing all of these vitamins, supplements, homepathic meds, etc. into your body.  If your issues are having palps at nite there are a couple of things you can do until you see a doc ....cut out all caffeine...not just coffee...tea, any sodas with color in them other than root beer, no chocolate, lessen your sugar intake, no red wine, definately no energy drinks or anything loaded with electrolytes like gatorade type of drinks, drink lots of water because dehydration will set off palps like crazy, reduce your stress if possible, and FYI deoxycycline causes heart palps as one of the side effects.  I really wouldn't be afraid to go to sleep at nite at all because of palps....you can help yourself before you see a doc by not self medicating and staying away from anything that may be making things worse for you...sorry if i am so rough on you here but i worry about people on this site and we want to be able to see you posting in the future.......call a doc......