Heart palpilation?!
Question:
Heart palpilation?
today morning i bent over to get something and my heart like missed a beat and it took my breath away and i had a very bad feeling like i cant control what goes on with me. And then I went to sit down and when i sat down my heart did that again...missed a beat and then beat like twice. My hands and feet became cold and i turned very weak. after a while everything came to normal thats why i came here. What could this be and is this called a heart palpilation? What causes this and how can i prevent it?
Answers:
A heart palpitation is easy to describe -- it beats hard, and you feel it.
usually, it means you're over-exerting yourself, you're anxious, or there's something wrong.
When the heart beat changes, skips a beat, beats incompletely, it's called an arrhythmia.
It sounds like you have an arrhythmia -- but, there's good news.
It's easy to test for, and some arrhythmias are nothing at all.
I have one -- it happens often. The first time, I fainted (literally -- passed out, on the floor, at work). The injury from the fall was more serious than the arrhythmia, though.
Mine felt like . . . my heart stopped beating, started again, and I forgot to breathe . . . the doctors describe it as "Your heart feels like it's flipping over." Mine wasn't quite flipping over, just . . . confused me.
The arrhythmia I have is called a PVC (premature ventricular contraction). It means that the ventricle in my heart is stupid, and sometimes squeezes a little too early -- so, my heart has to wait a while to beat again, because it was confused.
It isn't dangerous.
With PVC's (or PAC's) they are more common the faster the heart rate, and can have other symptoms -- a good portion of the population has them, and they're usually not treated unless they're causing anxiety in the patient, or there's a risk of heart disease, or something else like tachycardia. If so, they're treated with beta-blockers, anti-arrhytmics, or ACE inhibitors.
my medication (metoprolol) is like $4.00
i'm on it because I have something called Inapropriate Ventricular Tachycardia -- that means my heart beats too fast sometimes, and it's dangerous -- so -- they slow it down.
The faster the heart beats, the more likely you are to experience/notice a PVC/PAC.
Go talk to your doctor about it . . . have an EKG done.