Heart palpitations

# 10

Posted: 25/08/2002 23:37

i have read the other messages, and i will give some advice, never take stimulints ie, coffee, coke, tea, when you don\'t need them. you can\'t take a coffee and sit down and watch tv. no you have to get up and burn off the thing.otherwise it will be absorbed be the thing that pumps it ie your heart.

# 9

Posted: 23/08/2002 21:51

I have tachacardia for 3 years.cannot touch full cream milk.Ice cream near bedtime is also a danger.when diagnosed 1st my heartbeat was 238.passed out afew times.When i get gas on my tummy i find the irregular beats.I attend a cardioligist every 6 months,and take tambacour and lanoxin.I drink a lot of tea.and still get the odd episode,as the drs, call it.Have learned to live with it.

# 8

Posted: 22/08/2002 22:10

I experienced palpitations in my 30ties and 40ties and found them frightening My GP reassured me and I had a normal ECG. I got severe tachycardia after drinking brandy several evenings because I was tired in my earlier years and was given a sedative in Casualty to stop it ECG I think was normal then. I got episodes of irregular heart beats different to palpitations quieter after I cut a large area of grass and after exertion++ in my fifties. Nothing was ever found wrong with my heart but I was nervous. A visiting locum who called one evening after I had a long bout of heart irregularity asked me about tea and coffee and tiredness. He told me I was drinking too much tea and coffee and often when I was tired.
I started dringing a lot of herbal tea and water never drink coffee
watch fatugue and drink tea less.
Since then after 25 years of palpiations etc and fear I have never had an irregular beat or palpitation again. Ineresting re coke. I should stick to water!

# 7

Posted: 22/08/2002 20:40

On the evening inquestion, for my dinner I had a plate of pasta with a pesto sauce and a glass of red wine, followed by a cup of coffee. Very soon afterwards I developed a sick feeling in my tummy and my heart began to race - but at a regular pace. I went to bed and the extremely fast heartbeat continued for some hours. EventuallyI got to sleep and woke up the next morning feeling very tired. This tired feeling lasted for most of the following day. This experience hasn't happened before.
Thank you.
joanbuck. (anonymous)

# 6

Posted: 22/08/2002 10:31

Two years ago I had a heart attack and last year a quadruple by pass.
I started to suffer from palpitations about six months after the op and it was thought I would have to get a pace maker but my cardioligist then put me on a low dose of beta blocker as I am on other medication for high blood pressure, and can only be on a small dose because it would interfer with my medication.This was working fine no problems and then I notice over the past 6 - 8 weeks they have started to come back and seem to be getting stronger and and I am aware of them most of the time with a feeling in my chest and then up my neck. Should I go back to my cardiologist sooner.

# 5

Posted: 21/08/2002 22:43

I started getting palpitations at the same time as the symptoms of menopause started and put it down to that. My heart would pound furiously at night and it scared me. Many many people reassured me it was ok and part and parcel of menopause. I asked for referral to a cardiologist who informed me i have a type of atrial fibrillation which only occurs at night called vagal atrial fibrillation and it only happens every now and then. Finally after many failures with medications i have started on Rhymodan and it works for me. I am not happy to be on medication and wonder if i had left it alone would it have gone away when menopause ended. Anyone know?

# 4

Posted: 21/08/2002 22:10

thank you for your reassuring explanation. I am 70 and suffer from Asthma. Recently when I undertook a walk I got palpitatitions just below mt chest bone. I just took it easy for a few hours and it then returned to normal.

# 3

Posted: 21/08/2002 09:28

I have suffered from heart palpitations for years (I am only 34) I was diganosed with SVT and told my condition was a nuisance by a cardiologist. My GP seems to think they are harmless, but it certainly is very scary when I have an attack. Is there any Cure? and what causes them. Nobody can give me an explanation.

# 2

Posted: 14/08/2002 19:52

I have been experiencing palpitations for 18 months now and am exhausted from them. I have been put on beta blockers to see if they can control them. as I have recently only celebrated(!)my 40th b.day, i am concerned by them. I have spent 10 days in hospital being monitered, but I still have them. I do have a family history of a rare heart complaint, but the docs. are not sure if it is related to this or not. However much docs tell you not to worry,you can't help but be concerned about it.

# 1

Posted: 14/08/2002 17:23

When I went to the see the doctor about the palpitations that I was experiencing it turned out to be the amount of coke (cafefine intake) that I was drinking. But what was making them worse was extremely worrying. Once I was reassured by my doctor and cut down my coke intake they stopped. I rarely feel my heart skipping a beat now.