I'm losing my mind- please someone help!

[emarcus]

I am a healthy 20 year old female who is currently enrolled in college, but for over a month in a half now I have been experiencing constant heart palputations. It has been driving me up a wall. I'm talking about constant, 24/7 from when I wake up to when I go to sleep my heart is pounding and won't let up. My doctor says my heart is healthy, and I am positive this is stress related. I have tried everything from larazapam to 1 mg of xanax and nothing works. It just makes me fall asleep, but before I fall asleep I still feel my heart palps. I tried half a pill of xananx and it makes me sleepy but still doesn't do the job.

I am getting so depressed over my situation. I have been falling behind in school work, I've been seperating from friends and my mind is just all over the place. It's literally hell. I feel like nobody understands me, and the fact that the medication isn't working makes me feel like I am even more crazy and that there isn't any help out there for me. I can't see my life with these palputations...I can't function. I got off coffee, I am doing yoga, I am seeing a counselor and I tried medication. If there is a last resort, please let me in on it, because I am seriously and utterly lost.

[debbier]

I can totally relate to you,  I have pvc's 24/7,  I recently had an ablation but unfornately my pvc's were coming from an area to close to my artery to ablate.   I am taking Atenolol 25mg for the last two weeks and I still feel them  all day but they are not driving me as crazy,  Before the Atenolol I was a wreck, I did not want to leave the house.   The atenolo seems to calm my anxiety over the pvc's to make it a liveable condition.   If they are affecting your live you need to try different beta blockers, what works for one person may not work for another.   I would love to wake up and they are gone but I doubt that will happen.   Good Luck,  Keep coming back for support, it helps me to know I am not alone.

[JandJsmommy]

Definitely go see a cardiologist. They will put you on a Holter monitor (basically a 24-hour EKG) and probably do an echo to assess your situation.

I'm a 37 year old female and I started having palps (PVCs --- premature ventricular contractions) with my second pregnancy. I'm a lifelong athlete and have always been healthy, and it has been really hard to deal with this situation. As many times as docs tell you it's fine and nothing to worry about it is still hard to believe when your heart is flip flopping. Good luck --- you are not alone!

[emarcus]

Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it. They did do an EKG and they said my heart was fine. I made an appointment with a psychiatrist but I guess I should check out a heart doctor as well. My doctor did try to put me on a low dose of beta blockers at first and then steadily increaded to something else when I was complaining the meds weren't working. Yet he told me if xananx didn't work, I would have to see a psychiatrist.

I wish I had the same attitude about palps just being palps, but being new to the whole thing makes me super depressed about not being able to control my own body. In the mean time, I have to wait until Monday to see the doctor. I'll just have to stick it out. Thanks again.

[cindy707]

Hi i read your post........i think what your issue may be is the type of doc that you went to and i assume it was a family doc and not a heart doc which in your case i doubt you'll find any relief for what is going on with you if he/she put you on xanax an anxiety drug and from what you've described that to me was the wrong thing to do.  How does your doc know your heart is fine?  Did they do an Echo, EKG, put you on a holter monitor, do mapping of the electrical activity of your heart?  From the symtoms that you've listed you need to take the time today and find a good heart doc in your area and go to them for an evalution because having constant palps 24/7 is a stress your heart does not need.  I personally would not get a referral from your family doc since you want someone who is independent in this case and i hate it when docs throw the wrong meds at people rather than refer them out.  You could post what city you live in and the members of the forum could maybe list someone good.  I would definately go to a heart doc that does it all tho....diagnosis, mapping, ablations, surgery, all of it for one stop shopping so to speak.  I do not understand why your doc did not put you at least on a low dose of beta blocker like antenolol or in that family of meds to take care of this.  You need to find out what is happening to you and have it fixed because something is obviously going on .  You aren't crazy trust me....all of us or most of us have been there and done that ....go see a heart doc and if you have already sounds like you need a second opinion to me....palps are palps and they make all of us a little skittish.......take back your life and do it with the right doctor...good luck.....make the call you'll be glas you did