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Sep 25, 2009, 03:19 PM
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Member Since: Aug 2009
Location: Fringes of the bell-shaped curve
Posts: 779
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   ((((Yoda)))) - I hear you and everyone else loud and clear on this. I can only say that you should not ignore the heart palpitations. I have experienced the very same symptoms time and again throughout my life - I also have asthma and I have a heart murmur, and when I am stressed my heart murmur really kicks into high gear - feels like my heart is galloping. Because the blood is not flowing properly through the heart and there is some backwash, this can affect how the blood is being oxygenated; therefore, blood being delivered throughout your body is not carrying sufficient oxygen which results in numerous physiological and neurological effects - hypoxia, dyspnea, numbness and tingling in extremeities and face, difficulty articulating, loss of coordination, near stupor, blurred vision, decreased mental function - the list goes on and on. It is not always a "one or the other" thing - sometimes a panic attack can trigger the palpitations and subsequent other symptoms, sometimes an asthma attack can feel like a panic attack and set things off, sometimes physical stressors can set off the murmur and everything else and it feels like a panic attack, sometimes even my corticosteroid inhalers used to treat my asthma can set off my heart murmur/palpitations and the rest of the symptoms. The point being, you really need to see your medical doctor and have your heart (full cardiac stress test) and general health fully evaluated before anyone treating you makes assumptions about anything. Just because we are depressed, etc., does not mean that we can't develop all too real medical conditions and diseases. Please take care of yourself - you are really going to have to advocate for yourself on this until someone listens to you.
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