Heart palpitations - AIBU?

[Sterristripoff]

For the past month or two I’ve been getting daily heart palpitations, they only last a second or two but I get a few of them a day.

At the end of January I had a echocardiogram, heart MRI, chest CT scan and very many ECGs because I was fainting without any kind of warning and apparently that can be a heart thing. All came back ok.
AIBU to think that whatever these palpitations are my heart has already been fairly strenuously tested and it’s all fine? I want to try cutting caffeine/ stress/ taking vitamins. Worry wort DP wants me to go back to my GP.

Oh sorry we cross posted!

My palpitations were so shocking and sudden that I could feel them in my back and in my arms as well.

I hate heart pain. It's awful! And frightening. Luckily Aspirin helps quite a lot.

Hope you get to the bottom of it. sorry I wasn't very useful.

@OP my DD is 18 nearly 19, few weeks ago she had sudden onset of hours of palpitations which are worse at night when she lies down, also exhaustion and dizziness; has only had an ECG and some blood so far I'm really worried so glad you brought this topic up. When I was reading about tachycardia causes there was something about it being more likely to start in 20s. Is that right in your experience @Elsiebear90?

My DF had fainting with no warning and fatigue he had a lot of cardiac tests ecg cardiac mri it was only when he had a loop recorder in they found he had pauses in his heart and needed a pacemaker. It took one year of having the loop recorder in for a pause to happen again they were planning to remove it at the time so was great for him that it showed up when it did! He’s doing great now

@Toria70 oh that is so painful. My 8 year old was took to A&E from school before Christmas with chest pains after belly flopping in the swimming pool. He was very congested at the same time, and after all the tests and investigations, this is what they diagnosed him with. Took about 8 weeks for the pain to subside meaning no PE or anything strenuous. The swimming never caused it just aggravated it but the congestion is still there even now.

OP do not hesitate to keep going back if at all you are concerned.

@DishingOutDone it depends on the tachycardia, but yes some like AV node entrant tachycardias tend to start being symptomatic when a patient is in their 20’s. Palpitations have so many causes though, I think without an ecg at the time of the palpitations or another obvious cause like anaemia it’s impossible to say what is causing them. I think in your daughter’s case a holter monitor would be ideal and following that a reveal if the palpitations are infrequent and not caught on the holter, but I’m just a stranger on the internet and don’t have access to her medical records so please don’t take my opinion as gospel! Also, if it happens again and she doesn’t have a monitor on I personally would take her to A&E and hopefully they can do an ECG then and there to catch it if it is an arrhythmia.

I’m glad I have seen this thread. My dh is 28, reasonably fit and healthy. Has been having palpitations for a couple of months now. They are more often when he is at rest, he will get the feeling of a palpitation. And when he tests on a pulse monitor his heart rate will be 35-43 for about a minute then back to normal 70’s, until it happens again (Maybe moments later or half an hour later)and drops back to 35-43. Do anyone else have any symptoms like these? @Elsiebear90 have you got any experience of this, you seem very knowledgeable.

Thank you @Elsiebear90 - problem is my DD is only 18 and is at uni so in her meetings with GPs she has a high chance of being fobbed off.

I have private medical care with access to a GP so I gave them a ring a few days ago and that GP said exactly what you said about needing the monitor, and she concurred with going through A&E!

We're still waiting on the ECG results and blood tests today after 2 weeks. I often feel that a young person turning 16/18 is an excuse to offer the very poorest medical care knowing that they are too young to advocate for themselves but clinicians can block a parent's support by insinuating the young person wants privacy! Anyway, that's a whole other thread but really appreciate your opinion.

Sorry to hijack your thread @Sterristripoff and hope you are ok.

@Rosegoldmum for goodness sake take him to GP.

@justasking111he has been to the gp, of course it didn’t happen while he was there. Now has to wait several months for specialist appointment. But in the meantime just trying to find some answers, as you can imagine it is very worrying for him.

Rosegoldmum I know what it’s like to be waiting for answers. Hope he gets some answers soon.

I’ve been reading the Discharge letter from the cardiology department. It says that I experienced some isolated ectopic beats when wearing the monitor. Is this a worrying thing? I assume it can’t be if they discharged me?

Sterri, that is ok. I had the same result after wearing the monitor for 7days.

Occasional ectopic beats are normal and not concerning. This British Heart Foundation leaflet is helpful.