heart palpitations with the urge to cough

Hi Vicious....when you purchased the potassium + magnesium....what is the milligrams on it? Are there different strengths of it? Hope to hear back from you....thanks so much.

Hi Vicious....can you tell me what milligrams the potassium + magnesium is that you bought at CVS? I tried eating a banana and already had magnesium....so that's what I did this morning....it kinda took the palpatations away. Anyways...hope to hear back from you.

wow never found this many people who get what im talking about its so rare but its a heart flutter along with the instantinouse erge to blow out.  in fact its a compulstion to blow out ive never tried to fight that part but it only happens when i am at rest and started for me around 16.   i can remember i really had few bad panic attacks over them and no doctor i saw had any idea what i was talking about in fact one told me to go to a phycoligest.   i just ignor them completly and i work out every day.  they also stopped completly when really backed off the nicotine.  sry for spelling and im so glad to see other that feel this flutter/ cough too :)

I'm having the exact same issues! In fact every time I talk I start having a coughing fit and my kids keep telling me I sound like an 80 year old. I'm 48! The doc did some blood work on me yesterday to check my potassium and magnesium levels and I was told they are normal? What else can I do??

Hi what you have described here is the exact thing im experiencing, ive had this complaint for years and years, im 46 now, when i try to explain to my friends they just laugh..It happens if i turn to quickly in bed, and if i get up too quick, or if im bending down then suddenly get up, it makes me cough..i feel ive got to cough to get my heart back to its normal rythym, sounds daft but thats how i feel, Like you ive had the heart monitor thing on for 24hrs but i didnt get an attack then, im off to the doctors in a couple of days see what he's got to say....

Reading you post made me feel i wasn't the only one experiencing this

thanks....

Take the magnesium. It works.

i have had these thumps and thuds for nearly 30 nyrs on and off they are very annoying i have hd 2 heart scans and my heart is structurally fine , i have parexysml atrial fibralation and i get a cough with them, they last about 6 to 10 hours once a month even with medication, i am told by my doctor he does not think they are a problem for me so please be assured noone as had them as bad as me or for as long , i am truying to accept them now as long as your heart is fine apparently they can go as quick as they came i hope mine do ojne day.

i have the same symptoms and i'm very worried i'm not sure if i should go get checked or if it's serious enough to get checked. if anyone knows what i should do please let me know

patricia dyer wrote:

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I'm having similar symptoms; coughing with skipped beats. As a former cardiac RN, I cannot recall a focus on the coughing but I do intend to find out what is causing my premature beats and what I may need to do to treat them.

I've had runs of this in the past, but never constant. At 42yo, they have now been present every single day for over a week. They do NOT get worse when lying down though. They actually improve a bit. We'll see.

i have had these thumps and thuds for nearly 30 nyrs on and off they are very annoying i have hd 2 heart scans and my heart is structurally fine , i have parexysml atrial fibralation and i get a cough with them, they last about 6 to 10 hours once a month even with medication, i am told by my doctor he does not think they are a problem for me so please be assured noone as had them as bad as me or for as long , i am truying to accept them now as long as your heart is fine apparently they can go as quick as they came i hope mine do ojne day.

Hi Patricia,

My problem is identical to yours. I've reduced my cafeine intake by 50% and noticed a huge difference. Hardly ever get the skipped beats now. I also noticed that if I have a bad night's sleep, that will trigger the skipped beats.

Rob

I also have intestinal problems. I have this issue the same exact way you explain. When I am laughing it causes me to cough to almost catch my breath or something. But I can just be sitting there and bam.. a glitch in my heart beat and an instan cough. All in one second, no controling it. Do you still have symptoms? Has anything changed in your case?

Bev wrote:

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I have suffered from what you are talking about. I am a healthy 25 year old female and I have been through every battery of test you can imagine on my heart because of this. I used to feel like my heart stopped beating for a second and I would have to cough. It completely freaked me out and my husband and I had many a trip to the ER. Like a previous post, I wore a holter monitor, but felt that the irregular beat didn't occur when I wore it. After all my tests and meeting with a cardiologist, I was diagnosed with having Premature atrial heart contractions. It is completely normal. Everyone gets them. It isn't an extra beat, it is a "skipped" beat. Everyone has them but only about 50% of people can actually feel them when they happen. My cardiologist said no one knows why some people are more sensitive to feeling them and some others are not. She said I could take medication to keep them from happening, but the side effects wouldn't be worth it. They don't change your life expectancy and are not a risk. Some people get them only when they are stressed and some people get them every other heartbeat. It is sort of like your heart is re-seting itself, like an internal pace maker. It makes you feel like your heart skips a beat or has an extra beat and may make you cough as a reflex. Working out helps as does keeping stress levels and caffeine consumption down. I went for a long time after without having (or feeling) them until I got pregnant with my second child. My recommendation is to ask your doctor about it. It has given me a world of comfort because once you start having them and they scare you, the anxiety that is derived from having one makes you more likely to experience more of them. I hope this helps and gives you something to discuss with your respective doctors.

Hi what you have described here is the exact thing im experiencing, ive had this complaint for years and years, im 46 now, when i try to explain to my friends they just laugh..It happens if i turn to quickly in bed, and if i get up too quick, or if im bending down then suddenly get up, it makes me cough..i feel ive got to cough to get my heart back to its normal rythym, sounds daft but thats how i feel, Like you ive had the heart monitor thing on for 24hrs but i didnt get an attack then, im off to the doctors in a couple of days see what he's got to say....
Reading you post made me feel i wasn't the only one experiencing this
thanks....

I've experienced the same symptoms and gone through the same battery of tests as the person in the previous entry. I first noticed them when I was in my 20's. Caused me to panic and I went straight to ER.
I was diagnosed with PVC's. Premature Ventricular Contractions. I'm now a healthy 55 year old and learned to accept and live with this condition, if you want to call it that. I found that excercise and elimination of caffein greatly contributes to the reduction of these skipped beats. Hope this has helped.

Could you send me more details on this...Thank you!

Well, son of a gun. Ain't the Google cool? So, a couple of weeks ago, I began to feel an onset of an unusual amount of missing beats. No real measurable, steady frequency. Sometimes one every 5 seconds or so, for about a minute. Then 30 seconds of nothing, then some more. Very random, but too frequently for me to ignore. As I type this, I have a Holter monitor on. And just like that noise your car makes right up until you get it to the mechanic, nothing. Arg! Since putting on the monitor, nothing unusual (unless something happened in my sleep last night). Well, I also noticed the urge to cough and thought I'd Google up the two symptoms and, well, here we are. I'm 53, 5ft 9in, 158 lbs, a non-smoker and I drink absolutely no alcohol. I'm a fanatical mountain biker, plugging in at least 8 hours a week on real mountain trails that are very difficult. I've been riding like this for the last 20 years. Suffice to say, I think I'm in very good shape. Googlings also brought me to a condition called Pericarditis. Check it out. Anyway, I'll try to report back when I know more about my specific issue.

So glad to know I am not alone with these symptoms.....my doctors done stress tests and heart monitors but everything shows normal but yet the flip flop feeling in my chest followed by a pound and a feeling to cough continues.....my doctor said its just heart palpatations but my goodness so annoying....and scary. I am 37 and I am definately going to try the bananna recomendation to see if it helps. Don't understand why I feel light headed after it happens?

Magnesium works! Since I started taking it again the palpitations have stopped.