Heart races after eating

Sorry that I did not see your post before but the symptoms sound like your problems is connected to what you eat: specifically gluten and possibly dairy. I had GERD, racing hear beat and brain fog. After having testing done by Cyrex Laboratories for food sensitivities, I found that I should not eat gluten, (from wheat) oats, barley, rye. I actually cut out rice as well along with all dairy, tomatoes, potatoes, tomatillo, egg plant, all peppers, beans, legumes (peas, too) lentils and eggs. My symptoms went away immediately. I am also very sensitive to sugar, so use it in moderation and have Stevia on cereal. My GERD and arthritis is very bad if I try to eat even a small amount of tomatoes and tomatillos. So I have to avoid them. Some people say they could not eat this way, but the benefits far outweigh the taste of these foods. There are plenty of vegetables, fruit, seeds, nuts and meat that i CAN eat so that I am not starving. There are recipes galore on the internet for making your own pancakes, muffins etc. using alternative ingredients. I have been able to lose weight and keep it off for the first time in my adult life. I recently had a newer test from Cyrex that showed that I could have cooked eggs and roasted (not raw) almonds. This newest test is called "Array 10". I would advise anyone with your symptoms to do a trial and give up wheat products and milk since they are the most common allergens. If you suspect any other food (possibly from GERD attacks after eating pizza or any other food), give that up also for six weeks. Then eat what you suspect for a few days and see if there are any symptoms that have returned. I will never eat wheat products again since their side effects can last six months after eating just a small amount. See a functional medicine practitioner who can help with your food intolerance, it will be money well spent. Good luck

Have you been tested for B12 deficiency? It can cause similar symptoms and taking Gerd meds reduces your ability to absorb B12. You can google B12 deficiency and do the research.

I am in the same boat. Someone should start a Facebook group.

Did you find a solution so far?

Jeremy, I would like to talk to you about this, but can't figure out how to contact you through this website. Is there a way I can get your email? It would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I have been suffering from this forever. For me I get tachycardia especially if it eat eggs raw. But I’ll get delayed GI issues like mucus in the stool and sometimes diarrhea. Do your symptoms last throughout the day after consuming eggs?

That sounds like a classic panic attack. Especially the numbness of the mouth and fingers.

Wow I thought I was the only one with this issue I am glad I am not alone I just want to find out what's wrong. I hate not knowing

28, male, 5'10, 138 lbs. Diet largely vegetarian, plenty of fiber. Lots of moderate exercise (hiking, daily calisthenics), quite physically fit. History of gastric discomfort inducing panic attacks, especially following excessive marijuana consumption. Regular marijuana consumer, moderate levels but increased in recent months. When I eat high-fiber foods it feels like my stomach is full of sand or gravel. Not painful, but very bloated and uncomfortable. Gas gathers in the duodenum and delayed gastric emptying makes the stomach bilious. Suspect I have gotten some gastritis from this. I also have sugar cravings and run out to get cake in the middle of the night, often four rich chocolate slices all at once. Condition seems to worsen after these bouts but it's not immediate or one-for-one, more like I eat badly one week and then the next week is hell even after I correct my diet. After about half an hour or an hour of my stomach just feeling like it doesn't even think my food is food, heart rate increases, I shake, I begin to sweat profusely from the armpits, and my extremities get cold. No pain, again, but my body reacts like I'm in pain or great stress. It's not a panic attack, I am able to keep my mental and emotional state relatively calm. After deposition finally occurs with a big shaky spasm of the gastric sphincter (approx 1-2 hrs after eating), the duodenum burns a little with a white cold feeling, again somehow not quite painful, and then I burp a lot and things start to settle down. Alcohol intake definitely wrecks my gut, even a single beer increases sensitivity. Eating restaurant food or large meals is a bad idea. Coffee + pastry is the god-killer, sends me to the ER, feels like I'm trying to pass a rock through my gastric sphincter. My temptation is to stick only to high-fiber foods, the most virtuous diet I can think of, and yet the best foods seem to be more calorie-dense without straying all the way to fully processed: white pasta and bread, poultry and fish, eggs, savory soups. Lets me get my calories in without too much actual food mass. Smaller meals is a must during flare-ups. I have a number of suspected diagnoses: Ulcer/gastritis: Got an H. Pylori screening yesterday, negative, so not ulcer(s). As I said, I suspect some gastritis, but I think this is secondary, not primary. Partial obstruction in upper bowel: Fits some symptoms but extremely unlikely for someone with my medical history. Stomach cancer: Same as partial obstruction, just very unlikely for me. Young, fit, not a regular drinker, not a (tobacco) smoker, not diabetic (see below), not obese. Reactive hypoglycemia: I am thankful to this thread for introducing me to this potential diagnosis. As mentioned, I crave sugar and go on marked sugar binges. First big episode followed eating almost nothing but donuts and cookie cake for a week. Recently in grad school I had a habit of having strong coffee each morning and a god-awful pack of hyper-processed "creme" cookies, somewhere in the neighborhood of 60g of sugar, would down a whole pack every day. Never gained weight, but based on my stools my body was clearly just declining to absorb all the nutrient. Two concerns from this habit: It may have over time eroded my gastric mucus (but in all my research it seems diet-induced gastritis is not really a thing, H Pylori looks to be a near-mandatory component of genuine chronic gastritis); and I fear I may, with such a huge sugar spike every day, have given myself some kind of diabetes-adjacent metabolic syndrome. If my body got used to being hit in the face with a brick of sugar every day, it makes sense that it would now overreact with insulin when I eat, and also explain why I continue to have powerful cravings for refined sugar and why my body seems to treat low-caloric density foods as "not real food." Marijuana-induced hyperemesis: Bear with me on this one. I clearly do not have the syndrome as described, I virtually never vomit, much less uncontrollably. But it is mentioned that part of the mechanism of action here is that THC can be related to delayed gastric emptying, which is what it very much feels like is going on in my stomach. It also mentions compulsive hot showering to alleviate nausea: I showed this behavior during my phase of weed-and-gastric-induced panic attacks, although capping out at a max of two or three times a day. I have been smoking for about eight years now and I'm not at all a heavy user, but this is because it affects me disproportionately strongly, so who can say how it balances out? Final conclusion: A disappointingly confusing nexus of anxiety, bad dietary choices, and complications from marijuana consumption. My plan going forward is small meals frequently, shun all alcohol and coffee, avoid refined sugars, hydrate well, and smoke only in the evening after all meals are consumed (doubles as eating well before bedtime). The spookiest feature continues to be the lack of outright pain despite so many other strong and uncomfortable symptoms. If my gut doesn't recover from this latest round of babying, I'm going to get an endoscopy next. I've been eating less and I do not have a lot of spare weight to lose. Best of luck to everyone, wish we could all get clear diagnoses and prescriptions :(

Everyone have a glucose test to check for non diabetic hypoglycemia. I have this issues also. Went to ER over and over and different hospitals and doctor offices. Finally a cardiologist ordered a 4 hours glucose test in the hospital. You drink a bottle of glucose water and they check your blood sugar every hour. You stay there at the lab the entire 4 hours. I ate my 4th hour had a blood sugar crash, fast heart, sweaty, nauseous, weak, shaky, felt faint, completely understand able to take care of my self. I was diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia. It's been 16 years ago that I finally found a doctor to help me. Now with diet, high protein, low carb and only sugar fromonitor half cups of fruit after a meal. With snacks of a few crackers, 3oz protien and 3 Oz milk that you have 2 hours after breakfast, lunch and dinner. It helps. Make sure you drink lots of water also. That helps with pulse rate and also have a magnesium test and vitamin D. They can cause fast heart rate also if low. It took me 2 years to find a doctor to do the right test. MAKE them do a hypoglycemia test. Many people have hypoglycemia without being a diabetic. Good luck and hope I help someone. God bless.

Wow we're the same age and I have exactly the same issues. Anxiety and panic for years and recently palpitations. I too have started taking a multi vitamin. Makes you wonder

"I had this issue for years. Eventually I narrowed it down to an egg white "allergy". Since egg hides in everything, it's no wonder it took so long. Unfortunately, after a stomach bug, my gut is more sensitive for a few weeks and any largish meal will set it off as well. Note: adult egg allergies are usually technically allergies and will not show up on skin tests. The egg white releases histamine from the gut directly." I also have an allergy to Eggs (F, in my forties) and Bannanas and Avocados and black beans - it's like Pilsen to my stomachs and only developed in the last 5 yrs. Thank you for sharing. I too am suffering from rapid heart beat after eating. Also, heart palpitations. Hopefully finding out what is happening. :(

Did they check your thyroid or check for Graves Disease...I had the same symptoms for a few years finally an ER dr caught it and had the radiation to kill my Thyroid, took a bit to get the medication levels correct but feel soo much better.

Hello, i think you have gluten intolerance or some certain food intolerance, stop eating all kinds of bread and carbs for a while and you will feel better, stop the ppis or anti acid medicine right now and stop eating bread and stay on salads, if you feel better then her you go, a diet should help you through it, just start adding one kind of food at a time and see if the problem comes back and if it does see what you ate and eliminate it from your diet, or you can do food intolerance test at a lab and see what you are not ok with and eliminate, thats what happened with me and it worked

Quick solution, do food intolerance test and see what killing you and eliminate it from your diet and you will be fine, been there so try it it will work, if yiu eat salad and you are ok then its %100there is a kind of food that its not for your body, maybe gluten maybe something else, if you cant do the list do a raw diet and then start add items and see what's making problem for you