Hello
I am sure it is okay - sometimes I am aware of my pulse in  my tummy. Of course there are some major blood vessels passing through there so it may just be the way your tummy and everything is sitting inside you on a particular day depending on how much you have eaten / drunk. That's what i try to tell myself (maybe not true, I don't know???) but why would you feel it one day there and not on another!

Don't put up with toothache - go to the dentist. Can you not take paracetemol or nurofen for the toothache. there's no need to put up with it.

I know what you mean about the fast heart rate too - it's lucky you are not having ectopics with it - that is what happens to me! I think you just have to make a conscious effort to slow down and not be stressed (ha ha the magic key). I find this a problem in the mornings when you are rushing around with kids and getting out the house. I can feel my heart speeding along unnecessarily so I try to go SLOW!

Hope you are feeling a bit better today - good luck with work! Good on you!

bead x

okay, I may have my members mixed up a bit and at my age, that's a very likely possibility, but didn't you mention that you were to undergo testing for benign paroxysmal vertigo and if so, have you undergone testing and what were the results?

A change in heart rate such as you desctibe is all too common for folks that are experiencing abnormal fluctuations in the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. We've already spoken about the Vagus nerve and its role as part of the nervous system, so I won't repeat it here. Changes in body position can indeed invoke changes in heart rate, which are entirely normal. The fact that you notice these changes do not make them pathological in nature.  

I do note that you said your problems had diminished somewhat until later in the morning before you noticed the dizziness and other symptoms. You have to realize that your anxiety and/or panic disorder can exacerbate your symptoms greatly but I also have to tell you that if this were anything serious, which Im certain you are erroneously conviced it is, then you wouldn't see periods of remission with something like this, it would just continue to get increasingly worse.

My suggestion here is that you begin to examine the role of anxiety disorder where your symptoms are concerned and consider being less dogmatic about working to find a cause for your symptoms that is related to a physical disease. You can continue to search, and many of my patients have done so, but at some point you're going to have to accept the medical fact that physical symptoms are not a direct correlation with physical disease. You are not in any type of danger and you must begin to consider other alternatives to physical disease as an underlying cause. That's certainly not a requisite, but merely my suggestion to you as a neurologist.  

Best regards and Good Health