Heart ?

[slenamond]

A couple of years ago my heart started doing funny stuff when I was doing cardio. It was beating really hard and kinda hurt. It definiatly made me stop what I was doing. I had it checked out. EKG & Echocardiogram came back fine.

The same time (November) lat year I had one or two episodes like the previous year.

Well it is November of this year and I have had this happen 2 times. I have a heart monitor now and when this happened my heart rate shot up to 195. It was not as bad today, I was able to calm it down and continue. All I was doing was the Outdoor Circuit on this months rotation in the jump rope 2 min. section. I mean, I have done things that were much more strenuous and it did not affect me like this.

Anyone have any experience with this or input?

Thanks

 

[Calico]

Do you have any other symptoms? Like shortness of breath, palpitations(heart feeling like it will beat right through your chest)? I have similar episodes but I have the above listed symptoms with it and my heart rate will also drop suddenly and I pass out. I have yet to have a diagnosis. I have been told anything from anxiety to prolonged QT to epilepsy. Ask a doctor and see what they say. I wore a halter monitor and of course never had an episode while wearing it, figures .

Anyway if it hurts then please have it checked out by a doctor better safe than sorry

 

[slenamond]

I am sorry you do this too.

Yes, it feels like it is beating out of my chest. The last time I thought I could pass out but I was not wearing a monitor then. Sometimes it feels like my heart is swelling (although I know it is not) and it is making my chest tight.

I have wondered if it is stress. It seems for the last 3 years November holds stressful events for me.

What is prolonged QT?

 

[cmoroney]

Yes, I have had these kind of heart problems for years now. Actually it started 19 years ago with heart palpitations. But over the last five years or so, I have had episodes of the fast heart rate. I don't even have to be exercising.

When I went to the doctor, he said I could go days like that - I thought my heart rate at 200? I never did the heart monitor - but the monitor might show you have supraventicular(sp) which he said outpatient surgery can fix.

I have been on Tenormin daily for over two years, now. That has helped immensely, so when the symptoms come they leave almost as quickly.

To say the least, it is a very scary experience. Weight training would always bring it on - I couldn't stand it - the medication has helped me immensely.

Let me know what your outcome is - I will say a prayer for you

Cheryl

My dad died at 34 of congestive heart failure, ome of my brothers had two by-passes (first at age 34) he died of congestive heart failure at the age of 52 - my mother died of congestive heart failure, too. That makes it a little more scary - but I have been told my problem is a miswiring of the heart from in utero - it has nothing to do with the physical part of my heart. Hopefully, that will be the case for you.

 

[Calico]

On an EKG there is a heart beat in a V shape with tails coming off both sides they are labeled PQRST and something about when the Q is to how long there is to where the T is is a prolonged QT. I have alot of the symptoms but never had it checked out. Mine actually started waaayyy back when I was young but I ignored it and in college is when I started to pass out. I am usually NOT exercising when it happens and it can occur under stress. I have passed out 3 times in my almost 14 years of marriage so they are very few and far between. I hope you find the answer and maybe one day I will go to the doctor and have myself check out also.

 

[slenamond]

Wow, I am so sorry about your losses. I lost my father when I was 15 to a massive heart attack. He was 48 and had his first attack at 38.

I am glad though that your heart is under control. Thanks for your kind words

 

[kathryn]

About two years ago, there was a period of several weeks when my heart would just start beating like mad for a while. It felt kind of "fluttery," like a scarab beatle was flying around in my chest. The doctor had me wear a monitor for 48 hours, and after an "episode," I would press and button to store what the monitor had recorded, and call a number to relay the info to them. I then saw a cardiologist and had a stress test.

My problem was (and still is, but it hasn't caused any similar symptoms for a long time) something call Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, where there is an extra connectipon between two parts of the heart and sometimes this causes extra beat. According to my stress test, the connection was too weak to function at high bpm (WPW can be very dangerous if it causes the heart to beat way too fast--at the time I was being tested, I saw an episode of Chicago HOpe where a patient with WPW had to be operated on "immediately, or he could die!!!"

The only annoyance I've had since that period is that heart rate monitors don't work well on me. They must sometimes catch one of the extra beats and count it in the bpm.