Can anyone offer any help/advice? - Heart Disorders Message Board

Bonnie1 · 06-05-2006, 01:45 AM

I am 24 years old and I am classed as mobidly obese. Since the age of 11 I have suffered with palpatations, which was put down to stress, but as I have gotten older the palpatations have increased and become more painful and distressing. Now I am experiencing something new. During the evening I will get flutterings and then when I go to bed I will get a nervous type of feeling in my stomach, then my heart seems to go mad. It feels like it is pounding so hard it will stop, it skips and jumps beats, goes really fast, or slows down so much it seems to stop.
Eventually I get really bad cramps and I need the toilet, I get shivery (it is summer now and really hot yet last night I was so cold I was wrapped up in layers) and my heart is still pounding, the nervous feeling in my stomach is still their and eventually after being to the toilet about an hour or so later I finally fall asleep.

This is utterly terrifying. It doesn't happen every night or anything but when it does in the moring every part of my body aches. I am ill anyway as I have Epilepsy and IIH so I am unable to just get outside and 'do exercise' as my IIH symptoms mean I can't leave the house alone. I try to avoid chocolate etc and I am loosing weight slowly. I have had a 24 hr heart monitor and all it showed was that my heart was slightly fast and nobody seemed worried about that.

Everyday I get sharp shooting pains in my chest, sometimes it hurts to breath in, other times my back aches up the top by my lungs. My heart beat is always fast and doing strange things.

I am just so tired of feeling so ill, if I try to walk anywhere I get so dizzy I feel like I will pass out. Does anyone have any advice?

Lenin · 06-05-2006, 07:28 AM

That's a tough life, Bonnie.

IIH I assume is idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Since you had your heart checked out, that's good...forget about it for a while.

All your symptoms (except the epilepsy) can be laid at the feet of the morbid obesity. Weight loss under medical supervision sounds like the treatment for most of your ills...including even the IIH which is highly correllated with obesity in women.

Get out of the house and walk, walk, walk...even if you have to pay someone to walk with you. Keep increasing your goal of walking farther and faster. All the while, cut your food down to levels that provide enough protein (maybe 60 grams,) 1200 calories or a little higher, and little else.

If you don't take action, you won't live very long. Go for a walk TODAY.

novembre · 06-12-2006, 01:22 AM

Just curious, have you had any thyroid tests done? I'm wondering because of your temperature perception thing... feeling like you're freezing in hot weather isn't normal. I would think something aside from the obesity is causing this. You should definitely mention the temperature issues to your doctor if you haven't already, because that could be a defining symptom.