On other heart boards I have seen discussions on the subject of a "pounding heart," and I have to say that those of us who have a pounding heart don't seem to be getting a lot of sympathy! After having my PCP tell me to tell it to my GI doctor, and the GI doctor telling me to tell it to my PCP, I gave up and decided to just deal with it. I was already on metoprolol for borderline high blood pressure and knew that if my doctors thought the pounding serious than they would have dealt with it. However, the reason I'm writing this is because I no longer have the problem. I used to have it immediately after eating or when laying down. Sometimes in the morning I thought it might beat right out of my chest. My pulse and BP were normal, but for some reason I just felt my heart pounding and obviously wasn't fond of it. Because I take Wellbutrin and clonazepam, I have a psychiatrist, and my psychiatrist is high on at least trying fish oil for depression because it has no side effects and is obviously very good for the circulatory system and heart.
On the fish oil, 1200 mg three times a day, the pounding is gone. I haven't had it in a month whereas I used to suffer from it every day. I know I sound like a commercial for fish oil but as I said, a lot of people seem to have it and either the medical community doesn't care or can't explain it. What I take is just listed as Fish Oil 1200 mg. In the fish oil is EPA, DHA, fatty acids and Omega-3, so apparently one should make sure those ingredients are in there. Hope this info helps someone out there.
You are right when you say that people, including doctors, don't take a "pounding heart" seriously...this is my first response on the subject that comes up over and over again.
Here's why:
A heart does nothing but BEAT.
That beat occurs at a certain rate and at a certain strength. That strength is measured as blood pressure. The rate is your heartrate. Both are easily measured.
If both are NORMAL but the person "perceives" a strong beat or a weak beat, then the problem is usually with the perception rather than with the heart. That's why the first things mentioned are anxiety, psychiatrists, tranqilizers, etc. and why someone who keeps showing up in the E/R for endless testing gets subtly shunted into the "loony" category and nobody takes him seriously.
Most of us don't "feel" our heart beating unless we dwell on it. If we dwell on it long and hard enough we begin to feel beating in various parts of our bodies that may or not feel "right." THe more preoccupied we become (hypervigilant) the more liikely we are to "determine" something is acting out of the ordinary.
After a certain point when a couple echogram, EKG, BP and heartrate measurments have come out normal, then it;s time to work on the PERCEPTION of a problem.
Of course, daily fish oil is a wonderful idea for us ALL...or better yet, daily FISH!
On other heart boards I have seen discussions on the subject of a "pounding heart," and I have to say that those of us who have a pounding heart don't seem to be getting a lot of sympathy! After having my PCP tell me to tell it to my GI doctor, and the GI doctor telling me to tell it to my PCP, I gave up and decided to just deal with it. I was already on metoprolol for borderline high blood pressure and knew that if my doctors thought the pounding serious than they would have dealt with it. However, the reason I'm writing this is because I no longer have the problem. I used to have it immediately after eating or when laying down. Sometimes in the morning I thought it might beat right out of my chest. My pulse and BP were normal, but for some reason I just felt my heart pounding and obviously wasn't fond of it. Because I take Wellbutrin and clonazepam, I have a psychiatrist, and my psychiatrist is high on at least trying fish oil for depression because it has no side effects and is obviously very good for the circulatory system and heart.
On the fish oil, 1200 mg three times a day, the pounding is gone. I haven't had it in a month whereas I used to suffer from it every day. I know I sound like a commercial for fish oil but as I said, a lot of people seem to have it and either the medical community doesn't care or can't explain it. What I take is just listed as Fish Oil 1200 mg. In the fish oil is EPA, DHA, fatty acids and Omega-3, so apparently one should make sure those ingredients are in there. Hope this info helps someone out there.
Hi, Aaron,
I have a pounding heart too. I am also on clonazepan and I take zoloft. I was wondering do you take the fish oil with the clonazepan and wellbutrin or did you go off of those meds when you started the fish oil? I would like to try the fish oil to see if it helps me I wanted to make sure it was ok to take it with the other meds.
Thanks,
Sherri
I had a concave chest repair about three years ago because I was having so much anxiety over the fact that I could always feel my heartbeat. The surgery helped, but I am still away of it. I seem to really dwell on it at night. If I listen hard enough, I SWEAR I can even hear the blood flowing with each beat.
I have experienced the pounding heart. It feels like it is pumping so hard, it's hitting my chest. I can hear it in my head.
I have also experienced a sudden "jump" in my chest as I am about to fall asleep. It feels like if someone had jumped out at me, or if I were on a freefall ride at an amuesment park.
I get passed around too. After several echocardiograms, ekg's and other tests all telling me i'm fine, I'm learning just to except it. I just hope the Doc's are right and not me! I'm convinced I have something wrong!
If anyone can explain these symptoms, or experience them too, please let me know!!!
Sometimes, a heart's normal rhythm is thrown off by interactions between medications, or interactions between various foods and mediations, or by a reaction to various stimulants or irritants. When this happens, the heart can misfire, and in many cases cause ectopic beats, among others.
The result is that the heart is not firing at the right time, or at the right place, and that can cause the heart to jump or pound in one's chest for hours or even days. It's kinda like the feeling you get when one of the sparkplugs in your car is misfiring, causing the engine to jump.
In order to prevent the pounding or the jumping of one's heart, you've got to figure out which medication (or supplement, or vitamin, or mineral) is interacting, or interferring, with another medication, or what food or drink is interacting badly with a medication, or what kind of irritant or stimulant could have disrupted the normal rhythm of your heart.
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