brief rapid heart rate

my heart rate will just start pacing like i had been exercising heavily, but i will be just sitting down or walking, not doing anything to increase my heart rate.  i do not get shortness of breath or anything my heart just starts pounding and it hurts my chest. it lasts from 1-5 min. i have tried increasing my breath then slowly slowing it down but it didn't work, laying down helps a bit, but it mostly has to go away on its own, its hapened severaly times and i don't know what to do...

[mabebesc]

Have you been to a doctor yet?  If not, I think you should make an appt. with a cardiologist. You would benefit from having a monitor put on to capture this racing heart rate when it happens.  Then your Dr. will be able to see what is actually happening and can decide what is the best course of treatment.
Betty

[photolvr89]

i don't know when its happens, it is just totally random

[rach6060]

sounds like SVT. Nothing to worry about, check it out with your doc. How often does it happen and when did the symptoms start?

[photolvr89]

it doesn't happen too often once every three months, first i feel my chest tighten a bit, then my heart rate sky rockets and that hurts but its mosty discomfert, and when my heartrate returns to normal most of the time its reall sudden and that is the part that hurts the most, one beat is rapid and the next normal when it stops