arrhytmia

[den2094]

please help me out on this.

as far as i remember i have been training everything, swimming, running, and hockey.
then i worked out for 3 years and NEVER had any problems with my heart, it never skipped during workout nothing.

then one day, out of nowhere, without warning, just suddenly i went into an arrhytmia during exercise.

it was very hard to get my heart back into normal . it took  me some months to do that.
i never understood what happened. then i did the tests, also a mri to see if something was not right.

well every test came back normal, nothing wrong nothing wrong at all.

the question is. where did the lethal arrhytmia came from in a normal heart?

i asked my doc he said it could possible be SVT or VT.  unfortunately we have never captured it on a recorder.

since then i quit any type of exercise in fear of it coming back, so far it hasnt come back but i noticed that i cant exercise like i did before, suddenly now my heart speeds up at very fast rates and , as i said it is very hard to get it back to normal when this happends.

so what can this be? Please help , as i find this to be a question i need an answer to!

[updownleftright]

You wrote this in another forum in regards to what you suffer from

"- irregular sleeping pattern.. i had this for many years now, basically i am awake at night, have hard sleeping. then i can sleep at day, all day. this have been going on and off for some years now. i have tried to fix it but it comes back again. before i would go sleep at 10 am or so.. now i can go sleep at 5 am or so.

- skipped beats, i used to get them once a year and now in the latest years they turned into once a week. i get them especially when i bend over. i still dont know why that happends but my heart skips alot of beats.

- muscle twiches, sometimes i get the muscles twitching in my arms and legs. just very annoying. i noticed it happends after a meal.

- weird reaction to some foods, now this didnt happen before but now sometimes after eating something i get rashes that lasts for some hours, then go away. also i noticed drinking milk causes skipped beats..
sometimes after eating food, i vomit it out.. when there is absolutely nothing wrong with the food i ate.

- ringing in my ears, more like tinnitus that comes and goes, but lasts for some seconds, this happends very infrequently.

- during exercise i get skipped beats, if i walk fast or run i get it, yet i had my heart checked 100 times for anything wrong, but noone could find anything wrong. however i had one SVT-attack some years ago during exercise, and now im afraid to exercise. no exercise is bad, so i am trying to stay active, but everytime i get active my heart starts to act up and then... i stop and get scared"

All I'm going to say is there's probably a greater chance of what ever you experienced happening again if you continue to not exercise. I'm not saying go out and do wind sprints, but light exercise is good for you.  You've also been checked about 20 times according to your other posts. If you've really been checked multiple times and every test has come back normal than there really isn't anything to worry about. What you felt happened 3 years ago, and could have been anything, and chances are it was something benign.

Of course your heart rate will speed up very fast from minimal exercise when you haven't worked out in 3 years, and when you're experiencing anxiety the moment you start. Listen to your doctors, they're not in the business of making life threatening mistakes. They can in a lot of trouble if they send people out telling them they are fine when they are not. You've been tested multiple times, there's no mistake about it. You're fine.

[MichelleP_3811]

It is good your test results came back normal because that means that this arrhythmia you are experiencing will very likely not be lethal to you.  Though what it is can't be determined until it is caught on a monitor.  How old are you?  If you consistently have it when you work out it seems logical to me that you should get a monitor and workout to get it captured then you would at least know what you are dealing with.  Has this been suggested to you?  If it is impairing your ability to exercise I think it would be worth it.  If it happens every time you work out a stress test may do the trick, otherwise a holter monitor worn at home would work. If it doesn't happen every time but you know you will get it within a month period an event recorder should work.  So the important thing is to get this recorded so you know what you are dealing with and how it should be treated.  So it is very good news your heart is in general good health because arrhythmias during exercise are a bit more of a concern than in other instances the fact your heart is healthy means whatever it is, most likely is not an imminent threat to you but you will want to pursue finding out what it is so you can resume your active life.