I apologize in advance for the length of my post...


As of late December I began to have some problems with my heart. I
woke up with sharp chest pains and nausea. The nausea went away after
15min but the chest pain did not go away when I took the deep breath and
lasted all day. I saw my doctor and had an ECG done and she said I did
NOT have a heart attack and sent me home. Later that day the pain got
worse so I went to Emergency. After all blood work and being hooked up
to an ECG for about an hour they determined that it was NOT a heart
attack but pericarditis (inflamation of the tissue around the heart)
which they said can be caused by injury. I went home and tried to forget
about it but it never really went away, it just lessened.

A couple of weeks later I started to get a really localized strong
headache in my right temple and right eye which would cause my vision in
the right eye to get blurry and focused (back and forth) I had a CT scan
done and it was clear, I saw an opthamologist and my eyes were deemed
to be fine.

Then one month ago today I was driving to a friends place with my
girlfriend and I got this strange feeling like I just got really scared, I
felt my heart pounding in my chest really hard and I began to feel
funny, with shortness of breath and pain in the centre of my chest. I
checked my pulse and it was racing, stopping, starting slowing down, racing
(just all over the place) It stopped after two hours and I thought it
was a one time thing. The next day I was lying down and it happened
again ... I stood up and felt faint, I put my hands on my chest and I
could feel my heart pounding really hard and irregular (it must have been
over 150bpm) it would also slow down within 10 beats, then stop for a
second and then kick back on with a really had thud and start racing
again OVER AND OVER!!! I went to the walk in clinic and by the time I got
there the racing had stopped but the skipped beats were still there.
The doctor sent me to emergency where they did the blood work and a 3
second ECG and told me that nothing was wrong and to see my family doctor
about getting a holter monitor. Within a week I had an echo
cardiogram where the technician caught the skipped beats 4 times and he told me
that it would be fine if it was atrial and not ventriclar. As he put
the 48 hour holter monitor on it happened another 4 times in 30 sec and
he told me it was ventricular but it could still be fine. STILL
WAITING FOR RESULTS

Things that occur during an attack as well as while wearing the holter
monitor:

-a dull ache in the centre of my chest
-a feeling of a lump in my throat
-high resting heart rate (80-90)
-heart rate up to 140-150 bpm when walking
-3 incidents which woke me up where I could not breathe properley and
caused me to yawn uncontrollably, racing skipping beats, and a hard
pulse that I could feel in my whole body (especially my hands and feet)
-lasts between 20 min and 4 hrs

I looked at all the symptoms:
-irregular hb
-palpitations
-racing hb
-chest pains
-lump in throat

and came up with ventricular tachycardia, angina.

Anyone else with these same problems?

i have had this off and on for years
you need a heart doctor to deside the problem
sometimes low potassim.iron can cause it also
eat bananas,potatoes and iron type foods
it is very scary and it drives me nutts
they usally give beta blockers or other types of high blood preasure medications for this.I dont have high blood preasure so im always scared to take the medications
only a heart doctor can get this fixed for you
they will prb say the lump feeling in your throat is nervous but i dont think it is
it happens be me also

Have you ever been tested for reflux disease (GERD)??

It can cause many of your symptoms and, when untreated, can often feel like a heart attack.

I know that when mine is flaring up, I will often get elevated heart rates for several hours until I can take for of the reflux meds and get it calmed down.

I'm not saying that there is "nothing" wrong with your heart, but you may have normal skipped beats/palps but you could have GERD that is really aggravating things.

By the way, I had 232 "ventricular ectopy" episodes in a 24 hour period and was told it was "fine." Believe me, I feel your pain.

My vote would be with Acid Reflux as well, and it seems it has gone on so long you now have a touch of anxiety.

I had some episodes with my heart acting up and racing and developed a bit of anxiety, when my doctor asked me which came first....ha! Am I anxious because my heart is jumping around or is my heart jumping around because I am anxious? Well, let's toss a coin shall we? All I know is that when your heart acts up....(doing anything out of the ordinary), most people will become anxious.

Get all the test done, it's better to be safe than sorry....and then if your heart is deemed healthy, consider the AR and anxiety.
Good Luck

Mileena

my heart first then nervous