My Heart

[jessican]

I really don't know how to explain what I feel. My heart just feels like its beating at the wrong pace. It kinda feels like an air pocket being released when It beat. It happens maybe, every 10 minutes. It doesn't hurt my chest feels fine. Sometimes I feel that I cannot breath. I am 2 months pregnant, if that helps. I went to the hospital and they did blood work, ultrasound on both legs to check for clotd, catscan on my heart and found nothing. The next day I felt better and didn't have the heart problems anymore. Two weeks later and it started up again, now it been doing this for a week and a half now. Please just a little help or direction would be great!

[tivvy]

i would still get it checked out. but when i was pregnant many years ago the doctor was checking my BP and said"does your heart race"? to which i replied "no but it is now" I was sent for cardiology tests and the results came back that yes arrhythmia can often happen in early pregnancy. for me things settled down and everything was fine. hope its the same for you and you can enjoy your pregnancy.

[PVC man]

I would agree that you should ask for a holter monitor and/or an event monitor, as well as a referral for a cardiologist visit..  This will help determine the diagnosis and how to handle it.

I would not be surprised if you are having benign palpitations, as I believe it is common to get these during pregnancy.  But get it checked out.

Feel better!!

[Artaud]

Hi,

Why don't you ask your Doctor about this? Despite the findings at the Hospital, I would imagine that your Doctor would be willing to address this. If you get these feelings everyday, your Doctor could order a Holter Monitor for you. You wear the monitor for about 24 hours, and turn it in the next day. The monitor results are analyzed and compared to a log book you are asked to fill-in of symptoms and activities that occurred while wearing the monitor. This way they can see exactly what was going on at that time, rhythm wise.

Be well.