Strage Heart Palpitations

[cpreg]

Hi,

I'm a 32 year old female, nonsmoker, in fairly good shape (although I just had my second baby and am just getting back into exercise I used to be an avid runner and was in excellent cardio condition) and have been having palpitations for years now.  I'm pretty sure I've also had a couple of episodes of SVT, but these have never been captured on an EKG so I can't be sure.  I've had two 24-hr Holter tests, an Event monitor (for 2 weeks) and an Echo done - all of which came back with "nothing to be worried about" just some PACs.  My question relates to something that happened last night: after dinner, I was giving my son a bath and I leaned over the side of the tub and my heart started beating irregularly...not just one PAC (the pause...thump feeling) or SVT (rapid, regular pounding) but different.  Not sure if it was just several PACs in succession or afib?  I don't know what that would feel like...It only lasted about 5 seconds (I think I coughed or cleared my throat to stop it) but because it was a different sensation, its been bothering me all day today thinking about it.  Is it possible that leaning over the bath pressed on my chest wall/ heart and started the irregular beating?  Or the bending over?  If so, what does this indicate?  Any suggestions/ comments would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[cindy707]

Hi i too read your post and want to toss in my two cents worth here....first off do not panic or scare yourself.  Only your doc can make any type of diagnosis thru extensive testing and try to remember that every single persons body and heart are different...just like out fingerprints are.  Lifestyle, physical signatures, stress levels, jobs, everything is different for everyone even tho some things are a little the same with all of us in terms of treatment.   There is nothing in the medical community that i am aware of that says that atrial fibrillation is a definate progressive disease...a pain in the kazoo for sure but easily treatable in so many ways that it would surprise you.  No biggie.....When you bent over the tub you changed the entirety of the way that your heart pumps blood thru the valves and in a way that it is just not used to...it could be an isolated incident that will never ever happen to you again but the bottom line is the bottom line....you obviously have small children if you were bathing them and they have the right to grow up with their mom being there for them so to me the solution is simple...rather than scare yourself to death and freak out everytime you feel a little something in your chest or heart area just make and appt. with your doc to get it checked out because we both know that like all of us in the community you'll be second guessing everything in the worst possible way until you know...the 50.00 to have the doc take a little listen to your heart will probably be the best money you have ever spent...good luck and let us know what happened at the docs.....

[kayg33]

Its afib. i was also 32 years old when i had my first afib spell started early one morning as i was leaning over to check on my baby niece. there was a thump and my heart took off from there. it was fast, skip, fast, pause, skip, pause, just all over the radar. that was almost three years ago and unfortunately afib does progress til you have it all the time. i get it more often everyday.