[Bill3]

Thanks!

What used to happen to me was this: if I would bend over to pick something up (by bending at the waist, not by bending my knees), an episode of tachycardia would often begin.

My diagnosis could be read from an EKG.

When you get palpitations, what makes them stop? Do you know what your pulse is during the palpitations?

[mum2four]

Nothing I seem to do makes them stop.......I concentrate on breathing slow and deap in to my belly...but nothing nothing I do seem to work at all....I dont always feel that my anxiety is causing it I'm thinking of anything that I can hear in my head it seem almost empty some time very empty almost like static it does not feel like anxiety and it does not feel like OCD its often set off by moving in an up and down or sit stand motion.

I finally had the courage to ask my dr why and she's sending me to have a ECG I'm be having it done tomorrow. Plus some blood work that I dont think I had done before cause I dont reconise the initals. Part of me hopes they find some thing so I dont feel crazy, and I finally have a explanition thats makes logical sence. Part of me hopes nothing is there only because I dont want to have anything els to deal with but techicly I already dealing with it but not very well so I'd prefur to have an answer and hopefully even a med, therapy to make it go away and let me have a life with out wondering each time is that serious do I pay attention today or will ignoring it make it go away. How do I know when or IF its serious. I dont want to ignore something that might harm me.

[Bill3]

I finally had the courage to ask my dr why and she's sending me to have a ECG I'm be having it done tomorrow.

Congratulations on your courage!

I wish you an explanation of, and an end to, the palpitations.

[mum2four]

Any one eva experianced a feeling like....... your heart just become solid and to large in your chest right after palp's stops or any time?

Another thing I noticed is that my whole right arm moving to beat of my heart thumping in my chest.....I was not scared of what i was noticing I was just amused by it all.

I wonder what I should pay attention to and what to ignore when I have palps but I dont worry or get scared or anxious in anyway. I forgot to mention these sensation to my Dr just in case thay were a more serious sign but I'm kind of interested in thw way other people experiance palps.

[Bill3]

I usually felt more of a tightening in my chest, and a general sense of feeling unwell.

[mum2four]

For me it can be so different each time.....some time I feel it's just thumping very hard in my chest and subsides slowly............sometime thumping that varies it streght of pounding.........sometimes fast heart beat and thumping..........sometime its feel iregular even when I check my pulse i dont always feel like is regular.........the ones that go from thumping hard to calm are the ones that I think may be more serious.........sometimes I can see my heart thumping in my chest and or all the way down my arm......some times i get the buttfly feeling that the feeling that make me feeling that makes me feel just yuk in general..........it rarly seems to beat faster with thumping yesterday I almost seem slow it was strange. normally I can count the beatss when i check my pulse but yesterday felt more like 1 and 2 and 3 rather than 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ect right now I just felt my pulse and felt a little fast to count which is how i always feel and I stuggle to find my pulse and feel it........but when it thumped yesterday I found my pulse right away I barly had to touch my wrist to feel it and it felt so easy to count each beat.............I could see it a little in by looking at my chest but I saw my arm move to beat of my heart more but the most noticable which caught my attention first was the not book in my hand was moving at first I thought it was dizziness but as I watched it a realised it was matching the thumping in my chest and it did not subside gradually it kinda went thump-----thump--------thump--------------------thump----------thump-----------------------------------------thump----------thump------------------thump-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------then nothing in my chest then I noticed it felt like my heart had turn solid and was bigger causeing presure but it did not feel like my whole cheat had presure and did not feel like just all of my left it was very percise feeling it was like my heart was solid and I feel it pressing on what ever surounds it but it was not a persure that felt close to my ribs it was deaper inside my chest. I was not scared at the time I did not feel scared of as if related to an my invironment ect nothing in my head and I looked around my surounding the only thing I can think is that crossing the road caused it but I dont remember being negative or even think much like I normall do when I cross a busy road and feel worried and scared about it.

[Bill3]

Thanks for the detailed description! I hope that you'll let us know what the doctor finds out.

[KathyM]

((mum2four))

I get them too on a regular basis due to amyloidosis. I also have orthostatic hypotension due to the amyloidosis (blood pressure drops very low when standing) - I'm a frequent fainter. The cherry on top is my aortic root - it's dilated and could blow at any time.

None of this can be fixed with medication or surgery. There have been numerous times when I thought "this is it." All I can do is say a prayer and be grateful for the time I've been given. I'll wake up the next morning, open one eye, then say "YIPPEE - I'M STILL HERE!" Healthy or not, tomorrow is never guaranteed.

It took a long time for me to come to terms with my condition. I'm glad your seeing a cardiologist to rule out cardiac disease. Hopefully, it will be something that can be fixed. If not, all you can do is get to know the butterflies in your chest and learn to live with them.