this is going to be long, so ill try to do as best as possible...im a pro athlete (10 months per year 2x2hr prectices per day), im 33 years old and been having heart problems or the past 6-7 years...at first it was just hard pounding when i was laying down..i have never noticed that before...then after a year or so it progressed into harder pounding when i practiced..like before i had to press my neck to find my pulse while checking it, now i can pretty much "feel" it with my whole body all the time im under exercise...anyays, after about 2-3 i noticed that the hears has began "skipping" sometimes..it was first at resting, then it started whe i had high excitements (sex, near car incident), and finally the past 3 years it has began happening on high heart rate 170-180 during practice...last year dureing the game i went into atrial fibrillation, and actually had to do electro conversion in the hospital...all these years i went to the cardiologists who told me ther ewas nothing wrong...after a-fib episode they discovered that i had extremly high (250!) upper blood pressure under effort, and gave me some medicien to take...my resting heart reate was 140/70 45-50 bmp...after mediceine under effort the BP dodnt go higher than 200...anyways the heart still "skips", but now only during the games which is where i probably use most adrenaline...also i noticed that sometime my heart goes into "skipping" mode when i try to breathe in hard or lift my hands above my head, which is exactly what happened last night at practice...every time i tried to take the deep breath or had to lift my arms high (often since i play basketball) the heart would go into pre atrial fibrillation as i call it cause it lasts only 5-10 seconds and then returns to normal beating, only last night it kept happening for 10 minutes so eventually i had to stop...now im worried because it has never happened in practice like that before...one skip or two at most...something is definitely wrong..doctors told me before that it could be adrenaline induced or pinched nerve which sends heart a signals...parallel to all this i have had neck problems which i wrote about a year ago in the spine section...the mri didnt find anythhing wrong with the neck structur, but i still have some sensations on my face and a general feeling of a "weak" neck...all this doesnt help my basketball, so being 33, im thinking of quitting it all together...does anyone have any of the problems or any info of what might be going on, i would appreciate it...tnx for reading...i know this is kind of jotted down so if u have any questions just ask
oh yeah...4 cardiologists said that my problems are stress related...i think what i need to do is some kind of spine/neck strenghtening routine (i do weights, but no matter how much i lift the neck areajust doesnt seem to get stronger) and some stress relieving routine...any tips are appreciated