dizziness, rapid pounding heart rate. 18 yrs old.

well I get this too, only that I only get it when I stand up after sitting for a while, my heart starts pounding hard and I see black spots all over my vision, but it quickly goes away, i'm an 18 yr old male and have been experiencing this for like 4 yrs now

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hi. im 18, 6'4", 220 pounds not much overweight or anything. but for about six months i have dizzy almost constantly and my heart beats hard and fast sometimes even when im just laying down. i have been dizzy for over a year but it became constant when i began with the heart problems. the first day it was really bad i was driving and it felt like i had a heart attack or something (but im 18) with sometimes severe chest pain and pressure and extreme dizzyness. i was pretty freaked out. i have been to the doctors regularly and weve done a catscan of the head, echo of heart, renal artery mri, blood test, and several other tests and cant find the problem. i also had mono for a while a couple months ago because they tested for that and it was positive but i think thats over (its been 6 months) i started an anxiety medicine a week ago to see if thats the problem but im not real anxious or anything. so far the medicine hasnt done anything but i guess it doesnt start fully working untill 2 weeks. but im really sick of all this. help? thanks.

i have the Same thing it started when i was about 17 and im now 21... iv had every test possible and they say nothing is wrong with me.
i have days where i feel like a normal person living life every day then i have other days whre im costantley dizzy/out of balance, i get chest pains moving all around my chest, shortness of breth and sometimes a pain in the bottom right of my head..
i eat normal im 5.9 and 10stone 4lbs and im veggie.

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dizziness, rapid heartbeat can be a symptom of P.O.T.S.

My son is also afflicted with this. He was diagnosed with P.O.T.S. A pediatric heart doctor put him on a Tilt test which diagnosed him with the condition. Your blood pressure decreases and does not regulate itself in sitting or lying position to a standing position. There is awhole website dedicated to this with doctors who deal with this. But now my sons is getting jerking eye movements with a lot of stimulation especially after using the computer. This led me to this site which says it may be due to Meiener's disease. If you know you are not anxious, you need to stand up for yourself and tell your doctor.

Hi, I was in the hospital just about 6 hours ago... With what sounds quite familiar to your problem, I'm nearly 20... I started having severe chest pains a while ago thought it was stress doctors couldn't find anything, then recently last friday I had a severe mind-grain, then got more the day before yesterday but these were like stabbing pains above my eyes, I still have one now. I felt extremely sick yesterday, then when I was able to get back on my feet, I went to sit in bed an my feet went ice cold, I got up to put some socks on an when I walked back into the room too see my mum I went extremely dizzy an I couldn't feel my legs, my heart was beating so fast, I actually felt drunk an next thing I knew I was in a and e with my heart upto 150 an it was beating terribly fast for 7 hours they put it down to being dehydrated but it just doesn't seem right, in the past two weeks also Ive been told I've changed my personality into being quite angry an snapping :(

You should try seeing a reputable chiropractor. Sometimes your spine being out of line my cause or make problems worse.

hi im sara 25y old I have kind of the same problem but for me I feel I can't breath when my heart start beeting so fast and I passed out lot of time I feel pain in my chest close to the heart when I'm trying to breath I just can't and I passed out one day for like more than 20 min when the help came I was already starting to wk up when I passed out my hand was freezing poeple wer trying to stright up my hands no way and actually now I'm having the pain each time I breath for almost more than 4h I feel a pain from my chest "heart" to my back it hurts 2 and I'm realy tired of breathing like I'm runing while I'm just siting or in bed

I have come across this while doing research for my daughter's situation. You should look into POTS syndrome

Exactly...this attack started to me as like you...i was asleep for whole night and also the next day....and i worked a lot of hard works without sleeping....and i didn't take enough food on that day after being asleep the next day at night i feel verrrrry sleepy and tried for sleep....when i tried my heart started beating like a racing car...i could hear the sound of my heart like dip dip dip dip....then i feel breatheless sweat and fear of eart attack and dying....after 1 hour i went to emergency they did ecg,blood test,and my blood pressure was 170/90 on that moment after every test they gave me some medicine to eat...after 5-10 minutes i felt calm...and went to sleep.....after that i again went to doctor had ecg.ekg,blood test,x-ray ...and every thing went very fine.....i had no roblem at all..so doctor diagnosis that i have phobic anxiety....given me medicine but it still comes to me at random but not like the 1st time attack......the best way to prevent it by taking meditation and psychotherapy i guess...its now 1 year for me that i had my panic attack

I am only 14, and I'm experiencing some of the same symptoms. When I stand up, I get very dizzy and see black spots. It has been happening a lot this past week. This morning I stood up, started walking, and got very dizzy (almost fell over), ha a very rapid heart beat, and my legs started trembling. I'm afraid it could be an anxiety attack because my mom has told me before that she thinks I have social anxiety. If anyone can help me, please write me!

Hi my name is Mae, i'm 13 and these are the exact symptoms i've had for a few weeks now. but sometimes i feel sick too which i guess is just from being hot and cold so much. I started freaking out everytime i couldn't breath because i thought i was having a heart attack. i always wondered if it was just anxiety and i was scaring myself by getting scared everytime this happened. i have also noticed that every time i'm not thinking about it i feel perfectly fine but when i do think about it i start not being able to breathe again and my heart beats incredibly fast which makes it all the scarier. I've only mentioned this to my best friend but i'm afraid to tell my parents cause they will take me to a doctor and we are very low on money right now. i do have asthma so i take ad-vair twice a day but havent been keeping up with it lately so i thought maybe that had something to do wih it. this morning i was again having trouble breathing and finally told my mom i couldnt breathe so she suggested i take a puff from my inhaler which i havent done yet...last night i could hardly sleep cause i felt like i couldnt breathe. I dont drink anything but milk, water, and apple juice i did drink a few dr.peppers last week, i have had some chocolate lately from cookies, i also have had ice cream the psat few nights. but thats about all the caffiene i've had. i will cut all of that out completely and hope that it works!!! besides all of that i eat fairly healthy! i'm not overwight, i'm pretty tall 5' 8" about 130lbs which i guess is a little on the heavy side but i run track and play softball a lot so i'm fit. I just don't know what to think of all of this!! this is all so scary for me!!! but your breathing tip has helped the last few minutes that i have been typing this. Thank you so much for the tips i will put them into practice!!! if you have any more suggestions please let me know!!!!

same here....help!!!!!!

Im 13. I've got the same symptoms. I've been home sick for a week

I am 21 years old 5ft 7 and weigh about 9stone, I have been the same, I've been taking amphetamine for nearly 2 years now but last 6months I've been having reallly dizzy spells and rapid heart rate and black outs, feels like my whole body is shutting down my legs are swollen and aching all the time, I sometimes get really scared and think I'm going to die or summet, I told my family about the way I feel and how ill I am but they don't believe me they say its just the amphetamine so now I don't tell anyone I won't even see my Gp because don't want him to think I'm crazy. I really need help sometimes when I get these feelings I feel like the only way is too kill myself because I'm not getting anywhere with telling my family. One time I was walking home from my sisters house at about 2 in the morning and I was walkin through a car park and it felt like someone was foolowing me and thought I seen a man stood there so I ran and when I got through the car park I couldn't breath thought I was going to die I fell to the ground and couldn't catch my breath for a few minutes, I don't know where to get help or anything I thought I was th only one who felt like this

This happened to me too the best thing to do is too try to keep active and schedule a check up with your doctor make sure your getting enough from your food groups. If you have the option skip fast food . This might sound chessy but always do deep breathing it helps a lot don't do staring contests and wait 40 not 30 minutes before you get in the pool. If none of this works tell your doctor, this might become serious.