Feel a strong heart beat go through me

To me it started when I chewed extra bubbles many in 2-3 days.
And from then often my heart start beating.
I am trying to avoide sugar and nicoteen and coffee and it helped a lot.

Could this all be a blood pressure thing? Or Vagus nerve issues? I can relate to the symptoms but I often find myself have elevated blood pressure when I feel so. But even if I have normal BP, I still feel the same. PRobably anxiety and stress.

Hey I'm Chris and I'm 58 and have been going through this for years and years. Don't know what causes it but I'm not too worried. So everyone else try not to be.

Okay this is the only place on the net where I find anything close to what I am feeling, and it is very similar. My "advantage" if you could call it that (or super power as a nurse once told me) is I'm sensitive to my body, so I can get into a bit more detail. But I am also experiencing the same thing from doctors, I had a stress echo, echo cardiogram, EKG, all of it, and shows my heart is normal, however, it's not. I dare say mine might be the most powerful heart from what I can read here, and it's frightening. Let me say when this first started happening.

When I was age seven, I ate a little bowl of dill pickle chips (not potato chips, but pickle slices like that which you get on burgers). A little while after I had a terrible pain in my heart, bringing me down to my knee and my heart beat was normal rate, but very powerful, like "Thump Thump! Thump Thump!" and that night it was powerful enough to shake the bed, and me being young, I was thinking some demon was shaking the bed. This continued straight for roughly ten years.

In school, people wouldn't believe me, so they stacked heavy text books on my chest and watched them all move to my heart. However, when I exercised, my heart just thumped fast and typical when you exercise. Though another strange symptom with this, was random pains around the heart, or what felt like on the outside shape of the heart, specifically on the lower half. Even more strange, on occasion, came a warm "dripping" sensation. Drip, drip, drip. As if some warm fluid was flowing on the outside of the lower heart, to the bottom tip, and dripping.

When I was in college at age 18, my heart rate stopped being so powerful, and returned to normal, which freaked me out a bit since after roughly ten years, you get used to it. But then something more frightening happened, a new sensation of EXTREME power with the sense of fright, like being scared by someone, surprised. Though my heart rate was normal again, normal strength, and normal exercising, whenever I would get scared, my heart rate wouldn't increase, it would stay the same rate, but now it was EXTREMELY powerful. I thought it was strong before, to move stacks of thick textbooks on my chest, but now when it gets like this, it feels like my heart is going to actually explode.

The worst of this happened during sleep. Had a fright in my sleep, as everyone has such as falling off a high building and waking up with a jolt before you hit the ground, you get that fright response. But I kid you not, my heart was so powerful, woke up with a bloody nose, the bed was moving with my heart beat, and the heart rate was what is normal, not fast paced like when running, but the force on the bed was knocking the wall, similar to more um, "adult activities" when you use your legs and body to get that kind of movement on a bed. What was and is really frightening, is I could feel the blood flow in my body, from the smallest blood vessels, to the larger ones, I could feel blood and sensations in my body I never felt before, feeling blood move around on all my organs, from the stomach, intestines, inside the eye, inside organ tissues. That is such a terrifying and surreal feeling. You cannot comprehend it unless it actually happens to you, but to actually feel the movement of the blood in your body, from the smallest of vessels, to the large ones, and your heart is that powerful. No exaggeration, it is pure terror.

I managed to calm down, but after that experience, I've been doing my absolute best to not get frightened or startled or surprised by things because I don't want to experience that again. Unfortunately in dreams, I cannot do this and on occasion, I do get a fright in sleep and wake up with this extreme pounding. I have gotten a lot better at calming myself, but I am without answers. I still get the random chest pains even in my thirties, and I still get the dripping sensation every now and then.

But lately, last couple of years it started to appear, I am noticing a similar powerful pounding appears when I get sexually aroused. Not as terrible as the fright or fear, but this just randomly appeared, but lately I have been worried and trying to avoid sexual arousal sensations. I do not like my heart acting this way, and I have told a cardiologist about this, and I have had an echo cardiogram, stress echo test, EKG, heart monitor, and everything shows my heart is sound. Other doctors tend to act like I am insane, or dumb it down to anxiety.

My uneducated theory, comes down to something to have to do with the Endocrine system. I could be very wrong, but I can only go with what goes on with me. When I exercise, my heart doesn't get this way, so there must be something different in say the adrenaline rush with fear or now, even sex, then that of exercising, to cause my heart to react this way.

I don't believe it to be a salt issue, as I have been told that with the pickle eating as a child, since that would not last a straight ten years.

I hate this. I hate this so much. I try not to allow myself to be scared or surprised and I have gotten okay at it, but now its moving into the sex drive and I am out of ideas. My only theory is something in the endocrine system, and doctors are shrugging it off, acting like it's all in my head. Speaking in a very condescending manor to me. I have done lots of searches, and lots of close answers, but nothing definitive.

This is not anxiety. Not with me. This is not all in my head. You do not have a stack of one to two inch thick text books, roughly two to four feet on your chest, easily move by a heart beat if it is all in your "head." Been told it is a pace maker issue as well, but so far, tests show my heart is in a clean bill of health.

I will say, it is somewhat refreshing to see others are experiencing similar experiences, so it does help show I'm not the only one experiencing this. Though to my knowledge, I am the only one having it this powerful to rock a bed against a wall when my heart does this.

It's so strange though. The heart rate remains the same, like 88-97 beats per minute, but it's so damn powerful, like it went from being "Thump Thump! Thump Thump!" in my childhood, to now when the fear sneaks up on me of being "BOOOOOM! BOOOOOM! BOOOOM BOOOOOM!" and I am just without answers.

I have to tell this entire story every time I see a new doctor, and the reaction is all the same, they order an EKG, and then it shows my heart is healthy, and then they go on about anxiety, having this all in my head, me being overly sensitive. Always directed to me being the cause of it, as if as though I've been manifesting this condition my entire life willingly.

All of you that experience this sensation know that it's very uncomfortable and unwelcome. There is no way to our knowledge we could manifest this knowingly or willingly. I hate it. I hate it very much. I've already accepted my heart is going to kill me because of this, though I would love to know what's going on, but so far, no answers, and no serious doctors to investigate.

My only theory with myself is something in the endocrine system. The only other advice I have been told that seems like it could provide an answer, is seeking out a University that specializes in Heart Research as they may have some kind of answer. But so far, I have not found a school willing to listen or help out. Just asking for people to register and join their studies.

This is not your standard "Palpitations" where you can just feel your heart beat. This is not harmless. You do not get nose bleeds from your standard "Palpitations" and I am very certain "Palpitations" are not harmless when they are so strong they can move the bed a couple of inches, much like in the heat of a sexual encounter. I might be different from others on here, but I can be certain that Palpitations like this are uncommon, after all if it were this common, there would not be this forum discussion.

I don't want attention. I don't want to be called a hypochondriac, I just want to find out why my heart is this powerful. Palpitations may be an answer to some, but there is no way my heart is that powerful. A powerful heart could mean high blood pressure all the time, and I don't have that, it only gets this powerful when I get a fear rush, and now a sexual rush, so there must be something in those two types of rushes or the adrenaline that is different from standard exercise since my heart is very normal during exercise.

In regular exercise, okay I feel Palpitations, I can feel my heart beat and its just like a normal functioning beating heart. But when I get this fear rush or sexual rush, it gets power and Extremely powerful. There must be something different in the rush of hormones and chemicals in the body that is different with fear and sex than exercise that must be causing this.

I do have a thyroid issue, and on medication that helps that, though this still goes on, even with the medication. And doctors are not giving me answers or even directing me in the right direction. I want to know why is it this powerful when I am taken by surprise and frightened suddenly? Why do I feel random sharp pains in my chest still? Why do I still get this dripping sensation every now and then?

The dripping sensation and the random pains are not Palpitations. I've been told it has to be something with one of the heart vents and the heart not being able to pump enough blood to sustain itself, though that doesn't make sense to me as my heart only gets this powerful when there is a sudden sense of fear. With sex, its not as powerful, but still has a lot of force and power. Yet with exercise, it's just a normal heart beat, even with the chemical they injected me in the stress echo, just like exercise, a little more harder, but not powerful.

I suppose for all the doctors here who may be reading this, the best way to help them comprehend "powerful" I will say when you exercise, your heart works harder. You can feel it beat and shake, and it's normal. You get throbbing in your head or eyes, say things like "my heart is racing" because you feel it. That is what I would call "hard" as your heart is working heart. With the sexual rush, think of that hard sensation, but your heart is not racing, but a normal pace, but five times more powerful then what it feels like when you exercise. That is the type of power I felt for ten years and when I get a sexual rush. Now imagine what I just said about "hard" and "powerful" so you have an image of that. When I have the fear rush, it is roughly about 11 times more powerful then the powerful sensation.

Now doctors reading, if you can come close to understanding that which I described and how it feels to me, let's go back to the "hard" sensation. If you lay in bed and your heart is racing at that "hard" sensation after exercise, it will vibrate into the bed springs and make a little shake. If you put a heavy book on your chest, it will move a tiny bit, and you can see your heart move. With the "powerful" I mentioned when dealing with sex, it is as I mentioned in my youth, you can stack a couple feet of text books, and watch the stack move to your heart beat about an inch and a half each beat. On the bed, it vibrates the entire bed, to a point I thought I was getting possessed as a child, so think of a gentle rocking of the bed. With the Extreme sensation with fear, the entire bed moves about an inch or two, much like if you kick your legs on the bed to rock it back away from the wall, then the momentum brings it back to knock on the wall, similar to sexual activity with someone. Now this bed is just on hard wood and a full size bed to better understand.

Now can you honestly say this is just harmless palpitations? Are you able to comprehend it? You can understand why I feel this is not harmless palpitations, there must be something else going on. This is terrifying. The human heart certainly cannot be this powerful. If I do have just a powerful heart beat, it shouldn't be this powerful, by all means I should be dead by the blood pressure alone. I do get dizzy and fuzzy vision when this happens, the worst was the first time it happened as that lasted a few minutes. Because of that, I have gotten better to calm myself within a minute so the spells no longer last several minutes, but under a minute.

It's still very scary. And I just want answers. Someone must know something somewhere, and this is the only place I could find that discusses this topic, so I am hoping someone is able to provide some kind of an answer.

It blows my mind my heart can move the bed that much, and yet I'm alive. I always feel like my heart is going to explode when it happens, and I can only guess the blood pressure. A cardiologist told me when this happens, I have 4 minutes to get to an ER and have an EKG done, and honestly, that is unrealistic, but that is the only professional advice I have received from an expert.

I do not know if this will go away naturally or not. For ten years as a child, I had a powerful heart beat and it just randomly one day returned to normal. But after that point, when I get the fear rush, it gets this way, when before, it didn't do this. Something has to be going on. My only suspect is something in my endocrine system.

I thought I would share my story and situation here, in hopes of maybe finding an actual answer, or something to point me in the right direction. I thank everyone who reads and understands this kind of powerful heart, and hope there is a doctor with an actual answer other than Palpitations or being in my head.

Age 66, 5’7” 126 lbs. Athletic when young but now only do free weights and walk 3-5 miles a day. Had cardiology tests 2 years ago because my heart would race just walking up my stairs but didn’t do this when working out at the gym and doing the stair master for 30 minutes. NOTHING was wrong with me (had stress test, EKG, etc) and thyroid was fine. Then I got this annoying very strong heart beat for over a year, especially at night before going to bed. Consensus is that it is anxiety related. I had anxiety attacks that started (never ever had these before!) like 2-3 times during the NIGHT that would wake me up. Interesting how one’s mind can take over your body! I went on Bupropion XL (extended release) lowest dose @ 1 pill in the morning. This prescription medicine STOPPED all night time anxiety attacks and most of those pounding hearts beats during the day. I had not bad side attacks only slightly burning eyes at night watching TV and felt like something was crawling at my ankles for a week and a half then those symptoms went away. I took Bupropion for a year the weaned off of it (very easy to weaned off of) and did not use this for another year until my nighttime anxiety came back. Then I used the Bupopion again for 4 months but went off it again to try a natural product to see if it works. This product is called “CALM” a magnesium product which seems to be working so far after one month of started (read reviews on Amazon) take a 1/2 tsp then build it up to 2 tsp. Also take it with Lemon Balm. I also take a Vitamin B Complex “100” by Solgar. So, with all of these I have much energy and calmness to carry on throughout the day. No side effects from any of these products, so far. The only other “script” medicineI am on is the CombiPatch for hot flashes so that I may have my life back. Have been on this since age 51. Tried going off of this but the hot flashes came back with a vengeance. So, back on it till the day I die with a happy face.

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