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palpitations when laying down
Could you please tell me the heart has to adjust in any way when you go from standing to laying down? I have noticed that when I am busy doing things and then go to lay down my heart seems to have to adjust itself and I feel it sort of skip or beat harder every three or four beats. This happens until I stand up again. Why would my heart be doing this? I do have palpitations throughout the day that I notice (maybe 3 or 4), but I really don't like these ones when I lay down. Thank you for your time.
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Well this is all interesting... I started having palps when I was about 38. It started with thumping when I laid down to sleep. Freaked me out since my dad died a day after his 40th birthday of a massive heart attack. Anyway...I didn't say anything for a while...just lived with the fear, knew it wasn't normal.
I went to drs for years, they said "we don't know why these start, most of them are benign, we can give you a beta blocker, you should see a cardio," I saw my OB, my family doc, the endos, the cardios...the echo was fine, the holter monitor a pain. One skinny little doc said, "you just need to loose weight" (oh yeah exercise while your having palpitations every other beat, they obviously had not tried that) The palps were much worse during sex as well,.. so that which I had always enjoyed became a source of great fear.
I mentioned many times to my drs I thought there was a hormonal connection, they all "nahhhhed" me.
Finally after echos showed nothing, after the holter showed "nothing to worry about", after I had tried all manner of vitamin, herb, minerals. I tried Progesterone cream. I'd had constant palps for years and within ONE WEEK, they were almost gone! with time they trailed off to almost never.
I wanted to shove this in the face of my all knowing docs who had been so indifferent to my suffering, whose only answers were spend lots of money and give me chemicals... who didn't give me credit for seeing there WAS a connection to my hormones. Progesterone cream, I could have spent the previous 8 years with almost complete normalcy. When will they listen?
I went to drs for years, they said "we don't know why these start, most of them are benign, we can give you a beta blocker, you should see a cardio," I saw my OB, my family doc, the endos, the cardios...the echo was fine, the holter monitor a pain. One skinny little doc said, "you just need to loose weight" (oh yeah exercise while your having palpitations every other beat, they obviously had not tried that) The palps were much worse during sex as well,.. so that which I had always enjoyed became a source of great fear.
I mentioned many times to my drs I thought there was a hormonal connection, they all "nahhhhed" me.
Finally after echos showed nothing, after the holter showed "nothing to worry about", after I had tried all manner of vitamin, herb, minerals. I tried Progesterone cream. I'd had constant palps for years and within ONE WEEK, they were almost gone! with time they trailed off to almost never.
I wanted to shove this in the face of my all knowing docs who had been so indifferent to my suffering, whose only answers were spend lots of money and give me chemicals... who didn't give me credit for seeing there WAS a connection to my hormones. Progesterone cream, I could have spent the previous 8 years with almost complete normalcy. When will they listen?
I have used the adenocarb more times than I like to admit. I walk into the emergency room and ask for it by name! I tell the admitting nurse exactly what I need & how much. I have corrected them on where the iv needs to be etc. They now think it's pretty funny. The first time I was given the drug was in either 88 or 89. I have even gotten it to stop an attack when I was pregnant. It gives me a slight dizzyness and the pressure in my chest changes which is always weird. It has never failed me. I love it.
I am so glad to have found you guys and don't have to feel like I am crazy.. I have wierd palpitations when I lie on my left side as well as times when I am not even stressed out. I get almost a "Jelly" feeling in my chest and sometimes get so tired that I have to lie down. My doctor just called saying my echocardiacgram came back normal. I was actually wondering if they got the wrong chart by accident!! The doctor said that females because of their hormones get this alot. I diagnosed myself years ago with chronic fatigue. Maybe this is why the palpitations? I don't know what to think. My email is ***@****
I am so glad to have found you guys and don't have to feel like I am crazy.. I have wierd palpitations when I lie on my left side as well as times when I am not even stressed out. I get almost a "Jelly" feeling in my chest and sometimes get so tired that I have to lie down. My doctor just called saying my echocardiacgram came back normal. I was actually wondering if they got the wrong chart by accident!! The doctor said that females because of their hormones get this alot. I diagnosed myself years ago with chronic fatigue. Maybe this is why the palpitations? I don't know what to think. My email is ***@****
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