Hi there everyone

I'm a 22 year old female who has recently been going through a rough couple weeks. I have had the occasional heart palp since I was 15, maybe a couple a week, or a few every two weeks, so i got used to them. Well three weeks ago, the day after xmas, my heart started skipping and this time didn't only last one or two times, but continued. Non stop. I went to the ER and they did tests and determined nothing was wrong. I wasn't convinced so i went to another hospital with a better rep and made a cardiology appointment. Fast forward, had an echo, multiple ekgs, chest xray, blood tests, holter, you name it! ALL RESULTS CAME BACK NORMAL. The doc said structurally my heart was fine, he told me to work out, and to play sports. Well for the last three weeks its been a pvc or pac every minute of every hour. Every once in awhile i may have 10 minutes without one, or i'll let my mind be occupied by something else, but it's driving me nuts. Even though there is nothing wrong i am still at a loss for why these all started three weeks ago.

Four weeks ago my heart wasn't doing this. I suffer from anxiety and panic disorder, i have been on zoloft for 10 years and i'm changing to prozac as we speak (since i've been to the psychiatrist since this all started). I was taking propranolol for a week or two but didn't get much relief on it. I guess I just want to know that it'll go away. That i went all these years without it being this repetitive and persistant. I'm 22, I like being with my friends but these last three weeks i've become a shut in. I'm a comedienne and I don't get joy out of being funny because i'm constantly scared. I have looked into every kind of vitamin or supplement to just get a little relief but nothing has worked. I'm tired. I guess i'm just looking for a boost. I wake up every morning thinking "maybe today will be the day everything goes back to normal." I see these things saying more than 6 a minute is dangerous, or a few in a row, but i have all that, so I get scared. My parents are sad cause they see me sad, but I feel like they truly don't know what i'm going through. I am hopeless that the skips will stop. Why can't i accept what the doctor says? Also the skips seem to be less frequent when I am moving around, walking, skating, even just getting up from laying down. Normal?

The anxiety is hard to deal with, my ears ring, sometimes dizzy, and I just think everything is related to my heart. I'm sorry for being such a debbie downer, and for writing an essay, I just feel so alone. Thank you all

MT

Thanks Seabass! As a matter of fact I got about 10+ hours of relief today. Not a one skipped beat until I layed down for bed.. Is that normal? Going from 3 weeks straight of skips every minute to not having any all day!? I really do think it has a lot to do with anxiety. I can only hope that every day will be like today.

There is a ton of information here.  I've been studying heart palpitations since 2002 when I had my first attack.  Like many others, I thought I was dying!  Palps can be caused by a number of differing risk factors.

Since I'm already an online researcher, it was an easy step for me to ad "palp research" to my daily routine.  It took me 6 years to nail down the risk factors for palpitations of my type.  My doctor says my heart is fine and that I am just stressed and should lay off coffee etc.  Lol.  Wish it was that easy!

It took me nearly six years but I cured my problem.  Now I blog about it and speak with others who want to know what I did.  The answer is out there folks and its NOT drugs!

You do not have to suffer from palpitations any longer.  You can do something about it today, so that by next week at this time you will no longer have palpitations.

Nick.

RLR wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2013, 4:56pm:


I am not soliciting.  In fact, that is why I had to stop short of telling folks how I cured my palpitations.  I only wanted people to realize that curing heart palpitations is possible and that the answer lays outside the traditionally narrow medical profession's operating model.  For some reason, doctors refuse to tell people what's going on.  You are a retired physician, so we both know what that is.  

Big Pharma pays people (often retired physicians) to protect their turf.  I sure hope you are not one of them.  As a retiree, aren't you free to tell the truth now?

The people I am talking about are those whom doctors have given a clean bill of health.  Ie... no prolapsed mitral valve issue.  No defective purkinje fibres, etc.... I'm talking about dealing with internal inflammation.  Anyone who would seek to stifle discussion about this issue must have an alternate agenda.

Wow, so "Liberal" of you.  Nothing you've ever done gives you the right to treat people so badly.  How you get "arrogance" from a simple discussion is amazingly "liberal" of you.  I realize that your history probably precludes you from the ability to exercise free thought.  

That said, I've read many of your posts and I can see you appear to have a genuine desire to help people.  Your presence is ubiquitous around health forums, and if the motive is to purely help people, then good on you.  However, your torrid intolerance of dissenting opinion is alarming.  Do you suffer the illusion that "your's is the only way" in all cases?  

Everyone knows, and the statistics bear this out, that more than 100,000 people die every year just from properly prescribed drugs.  If you own this forum, then you certainly have the power to shut out truth seekers and to keep people narrowly focused on discussing symptom control rather than curative remediation.  If you choose to exercise that power, then you only prove my earlier thoughts about big pharma wanting to control things.

My best friend is a retired pharmaceutical scientist, so I already know their game, no matter what hissy fit any of their people with to throw. I know also that 165,000 people per month (globally) are looking for solutions to heart palpitations.  Yes, I said "Looking".  That means on the search engines and outside of this forum.  So while you can cut me out of the loop here, you will achieve only a couple of things.

You will demonstrate a massive intolerance for new ideas and you will fail to suppress the message.  People are going to find my information and that of many others.  

And finally, I have never resorted to calling you names or vilifying you like you have tried to do to me.  Why don't you tell us what's really going on?  Why the vitriol?

The matter is not open for debate. You need to locate a forum more consistent with your own suppositions and notions. This forum is strictly based in allopathic medicine, not homeopathy. If you believe so strongly in your own research, then you need to establish a forum of your own. This one is not unavailable for such purposes.

I'll make no further response on the subject. If you persist in tagging multiple posts, I'll have no choice but to remove subsequent access. I trust that you're mature enough to simply move on without the need for me to act in that context.

Best regards,

Rutheford Rane, MD (ret.)

Lucidbloomer is a conspiracy theorist. He probably wears a tin foil hat.  

Richie, I just wonder, if it isn't anxiety, how have you lasted all these years without having a major event and being hospitalized with surgery/medical intervention?

Best of health to you too.