Heart flutters fast, shortness of breath, coughing stops it

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i have been doing that since i was 11 years old im 21 now and my heart still flutters sometimes it scares me so bad that i start to panic because i just wonder what if it flutters until it stops or something it can be a scary situation i also have panic disorder and bad nerves so bad that my hands get numb and i cant feel them does anyone else have these problems?

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...do not immediately go to the heart when you feel this problem. Your heart can be beating as strong as it should and be very healthy. Stress can cause this, anxiety, mental (unsettled thoughts, etc) and also your thyroid. you should have your thyroid examined. thyroid issues can cause the heart to palpitate or flutter also. Believe it or not, intestinal issues, excessive flatulence can cause this also, which can sometimes get behind the heart or get stuck in the esophogus. The heart itself is not always the problem, there are lots of other factors.

226823 · Newbie Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

I have had PVC's (diagnosed by 3 dr's & EMT's) on a ECG and have also been told that it is stress related. I sometimes get that POUNDING FLUTTER in my chest that makes me want to cough. It scares the crap out of me. My hands and arm can get numb or tingly sometimes too when it gets really bad. I take Atenolol and Paxil to help it.

The Atenolol lessens the intensity but it still occurs from time to time. I have always had anxiety and had panic attacks starting in my 20's (I am 35 now). When I have that pounding it ususally lasts a few seconds or stops when I cough. Today I bent over to pick something up off of the floor and that started an "attack" that lasted about 2 minutes and just seemed to stop on its own. So, I decided to google it to see if I could find anything and I found you guys. I literally have tears coming down my face with relief. I can't believe that all of this time there are so many people with the EXACT same thing, and all being told by our dr's that we are stressed and our hearts are fine. I just wanted to add my story so that hopefully someone will read this and feel a bit better.

My dr's did say to watch for pain, severe dizziness, nausea, etc. Although when you are in the middle of a freak out from your heart beating stupidly, these things are likely to crop up too. The symptoms of stress and heart weirdness are very similar.

If you are scared and haven't seen a doctor, go see one. But there are a ton of us out here that have these symptoms so you are not alone.

Be Well.

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It seems like most folks in this thread would be categorized as "younger" and not people that would be encountering heart problems at this stage of life. What is really difficult to distinguish is just how much of these symptoms are in fact psychosomatic versus actual internal heart congestive like problems or the early development there of.

Regarding this ECG or EKG; I am not familiar with this nor am I by any means some kind of a medical expert, however if this is something similar to a stress test or cardiogram this certainly is not the end all definitive test/conclusion. I knew an older gentlemen in his 60's who was in amazing physical condition and had passed cardiograms and stress tests like nothing for years. It wasn't until he started getting these chronic shortness of breath heart fluttering episodes and took an actual angiogram that the true problems with his heart were realized. The angiogram pretty much revealed that this guy was literally a couple months from dropping dead. Had he never taken the angiogram, he most likely would have never found out and just ended up collapsing one day.

Getting back to the younger folks like myself in this thread, another consideration is your health as a kid. Take for instance strep throat; which was a huge epidemic growing up for our generation. And I know several folks even myself that would get it like 3 times a year or more every single year. This could be the genesis for all kinds of future related heart problems if not properly treated at the time.

These little cough shortness of breath heart fluttering attacks are definitely scary Sad

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