I'm only 19 and this has been happening to me since I was 16. It takes my breath away and it hurts. It's starting to make me very dizzy. I went to the dr when I was 16 and they found nothing wrong. I know I'm not making this up. I have also had blood in my nose. It has become more frequent and worse. I don't know what to do about it.
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Wow, I am a little relieved now that I found all of this. I am 20 years old and have been complaining for the same thing now for the past 7 months, it started right around my birthday actually. I've had almost every test done, and nothing came up. My heart pounds and I can feel it, a lot of nights it keeps me up, and sometimes I even have pain in my arm. Not like numbness or tingling, it just feels like someone punched me in the arm. I've had 3 EKG's, a digestive tract x-ray, a thyroid test, an ultrasound of the area and they've got nothing, telling me i've suddenly out of the blue started having bad anxeity which I don't believe for one second.
The post about the diet makes me feel a little better, as I always say it happens or starts most often after I eat. I just came back to work from dinner, and all morning I was fine. I went home dinner time and ate for the first time today and now my heart is beating out of my chest. If anyone sees the doctor and he gives any rational explanations please post!! this freaks me out even more now since I got pregnant!
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Hmmm, interesting, I got Tinnitus about 4 weeks ago and this c**p just started keeping me awake, not the Tinnitus, just the heartbeat. Oh well, Tinnitus isn't bad, but I'm tired of sleeping through school and being up 'til 2AM+.
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This post really stands out to me, I too am bipolar and regularly get nose bleeds. I'm 22, male and skinny, and for the last few months my health has been pretty terrible. My main complaint is that I'm thirsty all the time, my throat is just horribly dry 24/7. Also I can't handle exercise, I get short of breath after almost no time at all, even walking takes it out of me sometimes. I stopped drinking a few months ago just because I was feeling so ragged, I couldn't handle any further dehydration. I've also cut down on caffeine a bit without really meaning to, sometimes I feel like it's just gonna make me thirstier, but sometimes I think ahh it's still liquid and I'll drink tea or coffee anyway. Anyway, the pounding heart thing is relatively new, I noticed a little bit in the last week or so, but it wasn't really serious until tonight. I was trying to get to sleep and my whole chest was moving and I could hear it in my pillow, so I took my pulse and to my surprise it was perfectly normal at 69. So then I googled pronounced heartbeat and found this page, and it's amazing how many symptoms and how many of these stories I relate to. I haven't had any luck finding out what's been wrong with me, blood tests have all come back negative etc. but this page is looking like it could be promising.
So for anyone else looking for help with a pounding heartbeat, I'll talk you through some key points of my day, from what I've read here so far it sounds like I've done everything wrong. For starters I woke up at quarter to six for work, which was torture, I always feel worst in the mornings, and it seems like especially so when I wake up early. I was extra thirsty too so I brought a couple of bottles of water with me. I was getting through them pretty quickly though so I bought a chai tea (not sure if it had caffeine) and a coffee, just cos I was still thirsty but wanted something other than water, and I thought they miiight quench my thirst. At work I do have to do a bit of heavy lifting, it's normally easy but lately it's quite an effort, I also had to run a little bit which wrecked me, and then deal with customers all day which I must admit I find stressful, I'm pretty shy. Had a bacon sandwich for breakfast there too. I kind of didn't drink much water after work because I felt like I'd drunk so much already, too much, (plus I get sick pissing all the time) but eventually the thirst caught up to me and I gave in. I then had to sort out some conflict with my band that I had put off for way way too long, which was very tough for me and stressful. That's about it, what I'm basically piecing together is STRESS, ANXIETY, EXERTION, DEHYDRATION, FATTY FOODS = HARD, HEAVY HEARTBEAT = BAD. I was wondering if I was starting to get manic tonight, and I think judging by the fact that I'm rambling on a forum at 1:30 AM instead of sleeping it's fairly safe to say I am. I think today has pushed me over the edge. Which is great news really, I have been really down lately and kind of ignoring problems that all seem to be coming to a head at the same time. So I'll learn from my mistakes in the future, but for now I've got some mania to look forward to! Rock on deadmanwalking! Hope any of this is even slightly helpful to anyone! xoxoxo
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I had some palpitations in March that lasted about 5-6 days, constant awareness of heavy heartbeat the whole time. I went to my doctor in May and found that I had high cholesterol (259 Total). So he started me on Crestor (10 mg) in early May. By the end of June I started having strong heartbeats that woke me up me at night (2-5x) whenever I turned over. I stopped the Crestor a few weeks ago, but I'm still having nighttime palpitataions. I have worn an event monitor for 30 days and am waiting to hear the results.
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Luvzi12, I know it's been over a year since you wrote this but I have had the same symptoms as you, including the 'sometimes chest pains'. I have tests and seen heart specialist with no results. Did you ever find out what it was for you? I would be so grateful to have any info I could try to follow up. Thanks so much and I hope you are feeling better.
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I have had this for years, I have had many tests and even though I seem to have a good heart it is scary...I feel it in my throat back and stomach ...I started to use a message mat to put in my bed to help not notice the uncomfortable irregular or pounding heart beats...It helps so you can sleep...I am having it tonight again and I cant relax so I am up looking at all these blogs...Good luck and get checked by your doctor to rule out serious problems...
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Has anyone had this problem after taking NSAIDs? I was on Celebrex for 6 months and it gave me high blood pressure, an increased heart rate, and the sensation of a 'hard' beat. I'm off the Celebrex and have lowered the blood pressure with medication, but I still have a 'heavy' heart beat. The link between NSAIDs and heart problems are well-documented, so I'm guessing it's the Celebrex...
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I have had some of these episodes myself and still sort of question all the tests I've gone through, but your comment about the red spots caught my I as I have developed what seems like eczema on my face. I'm 42, have had eczema on my hands from detergent sensitivities since I was about 15. I recently went on a gluten free diet, we'll see if that helps. All the best
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I've been experience the heavy heart beat for the last few nights...I do have pretty bad anxiety so I think that's the cause but I've never had this heart thing before......and yes, it's more distracting then anything and keeps me from being able to go to sleep.....I don't take any anxiety meds at this time.......I'm not sure if I should see a doc or not...
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well, i had open heart surgery. for like 10 seconds my heart did that & i felt like i was gonna pass out. but the docs said it weasnt a symptom, but that was my symtom of saying something was wrong, & i went to a caediologist :) but dont worry, you will be okay :)
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I have had this problem off and on for several years. The last couple of weeks I have had severe leg cramps at night. I took potassum for the cramps and noticed that is calmed the hard heartbeats. I'm not sure there is a connection but it worked wonders.
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Your heart beats harder bacause it is working too hard. Lack of blood oxygen causes the heart to work too hard. I have lived with this for years and finally found out the cause. I went to a pulmonary specialist and took a breathing test which showed my breathing at a 20% level. i also had a sleep apnea test. It showed i stopped breathing 31 times in one hour. Now I have some meds and a sleep apnea machine and I am doing much better.
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Makes me feel better that I'm not alone at least, this has happened to me sporadically in the past when I've been dehydrated, but would go away after rehydrating. But this time it's been constant for weeks. I've also been on Atkins since the end of March. However I've quit that since this started. I've been hitting the potassium rich foods for the last few days, but that's really not helping. I have been for blood tests and an echocardiogram but don't have the results yet. I guess I'm going to go drink some water and hope its not too bad tonight. Hang in there all!
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I've been suffering from a Hard Heartbeat for years and I think I have some answers, here's my story.
Okay, I first started getting a hard heartbeat in Dec, 2003. In retrospect it shouldn't have been surprising. I have always had a bad diet and I was under a lot of stress at work. What was I eating? Pizza, microwave food, diet sodas, fast food, little water, little milk, no coffee, wash, rinse, repeat. I always have exercised moderately, but not enough. By the time the hard heartbeats started I was in my mid 30's and I was putting on about 5 pounds a year. What happened? It finally caught up to me, that's what happened. I used to weight about 170 but after years of gaining weight I got up to 205 in 2003. Bam! Hard Heartbeat.
For years I was in denial, thinking it was just stress and so I quit my job in 2007, thinking it would go away. It didn't. I started exercising more thinking it would go away. It didn't. Sometimes it'd go away for awhile but it always came back. I was in denial, thinking or wishing it would go away.
Last year I started playing tennis and exercising even more than I had in the last 8 or 9 years. What surprised me is the hard heartbeat came back more than ever. Finally, one night after I had played a long, hard match of tennis I noticed my heart was really thumping hard, harder than practically ever before. I jumped up to the PC and started googling the heck out of "hard heartbeat". I had done this before and came up with nothing but this night I was looking much harder. One thing I found on a blog was that NSAIDS could help, specifically MOTRIN so I started taking that after playing tennis. You know what? I felt, much, much better. The hard heartbeat didn't go away completely but it did help out A LOT! After awhile I was taking motrin before and after tennis, usually with something small to eat or drink for it to absorb. It almost worked miracles, ALMOST.
Okay, here I am now. I'm 46 and I weigh a little less than before as I'm now about 195 pounds. My diet is better than it used to be but still, I eat a lot of food heavy with salt. I still have moderate hard heartbeat that I treat with Motrin. My doc DOES NOT seem concerned at all, he just says to track my blood pressure and pulse. My sitting pulse is about 80 and my sitting blood pressure is about 115 over 75, not bad at all right? Here's just a list of what I think is the cause and what I think will help:
Causes:
1. Bad Diet
2. Overweight
3. Stress
4. A lot of the top 3 for a long period of time. For instance, my diet has ALWAYS been bad. I have been overweight on and off my whole adult life.
5. Salt. I just have a feeling (pun intended) that our diets are so heavily laden with salt it's a big problem, hard heartbeat could be one of them.
6. Dehydration: This is always a bad thing right? Well, with us folks with hard heartbeat this may be one of the biggest causes.
7. Lack of exercise: Not only lack of exercise, but not being considered fit. You know if you're fit, are you fit? Probably not if you have a hard heartbeat.
8. Sedentary: T.V. I read somewhere that just sitting watching T.V. for 5, 6, 8 hours a day is killing people REGARDLESS if they're exercising. I watch a lot of T.V. folks, isn't healthy.
9. Allergies: We could have food allergies. Try cutting out some stuff to see if your symptoms go away.
Solutions:
1. NUMBER ONE! Drink a lot of water!! Enough to where your urine is clear all the time. I drink out of the tap, cheaper and I think it's got minerals and yes, it's nice and crunchy lol.
2. Stop it with the coffee, diet sodas, and other caffeine drinks/foods. Maybe you and I are sensitive to these things. Maybe we'er pre-diabetic. Go with water and sugarless tea and I'm sure you'll see a huge difference.
3. Exercise. Consistency is key. As a baseline I recommend anyone reading this to go outside and exercise moderate to heavy almost everyday of the week. Do I mean go jog five miles? No, but get outside and do all sorts of activities. Me? It's tennis and exercise classes at the gym.
4. Sleep: You have to sleep well and long. Some people need 7 hrs, some need 9. Listen to your body, are you yawning all the time?
5. NASIDS: Try some over the counter pills like aspirin, motrin, or tylenol. See if it makes a difference. It does make a big difference for me, it's just not a total cure.
6. Diet: Ultimately, I believe the number one cause is bad diet. Why do I think this? Well, it all started for me when I was eating the most and the worst. Over the years, that's when its been the most pronounced. I think it's fatty foods, too much salt, too much calories, yada yada yada. My best suggestion is try to slow the eating down. I know its hard but I really think if you drink a lot of water or sugarless tea and eat at least 10% less food than you normally you'll practically see immediate results. Add in more and more exercise and I think you'll get even better. I'm going to use the BMI for a GUIDE, not a cure. I believe if you are overweight you're best chance is to do all of the above and get close to your BMI. That's what I'm shooting for.
Finally, I wish great luck to you all with hard heartbeats. Please let me know how you're feeling and what changes to your lifestyle you've made to make your life better.
Thank you!
Okay, I first started getting a hard heartbeat in Dec, 2003. In retrospect it shouldn't have been surprising. I have always had a bad diet and I was under a lot of stress at work. What was I eating? Pizza, microwave food, diet sodas, fast food, little water, little milk, no coffee, wash, rinse, repeat. I always have exercised moderately, but not enough. By the time the hard heartbeats started I was in my mid 30's and I was putting on about 5 pounds a year. What happened? It finally caught up to me, that's what happened. I used to weight about 170 but after years of gaining weight I got up to 205 in 2003. Bam! Hard Heartbeat.
For years I was in denial, thinking it was just stress and so I quit my job in 2007, thinking it would go away. It didn't. I started exercising more thinking it would go away. It didn't. Sometimes it'd go away for awhile but it always came back. I was in denial, thinking or wishing it would go away.
Last year I started playing tennis and exercising even more than I had in the last 8 or 9 years. What surprised me is the hard heartbeat came back more than ever. Finally, one night after I had played a long, hard match of tennis I noticed my heart was really thumping hard, harder than practically ever before. I jumped up to the PC and started googling the heck out of "hard heartbeat". I had done this before and came up with nothing but this night I was looking much harder. One thing I found on a blog was that NSAIDS could help, specifically MOTRIN so I started taking that after playing tennis. You know what? I felt, much, much better. The hard heartbeat didn't go away completely but it did help out A LOT! After awhile I was taking motrin before and after tennis, usually with something small to eat or drink for it to absorb. It almost worked miracles, ALMOST.
Okay, here I am now. I'm 46 and I weigh a little less than before as I'm now about 195 pounds. My diet is better than it used to be but still, I eat a lot of food heavy with salt. I still have moderate hard heartbeat that I treat with Motrin. My doc DOES NOT seem concerned at all, he just says to track my blood pressure and pulse. My sitting pulse is about 80 and my sitting blood pressure is about 115 over 75, not bad at all right? Here's just a list of what I think is the cause and what I think will help:
Causes:
1. Bad Diet
2. Overweight
3. Stress
4. A lot of the top 3 for a long period of time. For instance, my diet has ALWAYS been bad. I have been overweight on and off my whole adult life.
5. Salt. I just have a feeling (pun intended) that our diets are so heavily laden with salt it's a big problem, hard heartbeat could be one of them.
6. Dehydration: This is always a bad thing right? Well, with us folks with hard heartbeat this may be one of the biggest causes.
7. Lack of exercise: Not only lack of exercise, but not being considered fit. You know if you're fit, are you fit? Probably not if you have a hard heartbeat.
8. Sedentary: T.V. I read somewhere that just sitting watching T.V. for 5, 6, 8 hours a day is killing people REGARDLESS if they're exercising. I watch a lot of T.V. folks, isn't healthy.
9. Allergies: We could have food allergies. Try cutting out some stuff to see if your symptoms go away.
Solutions:
1. NUMBER ONE! Drink a lot of water!! Enough to where your urine is clear all the time. I drink out of the tap, cheaper and I think it's got minerals and yes, it's nice and crunchy lol.
2. Stop it with the coffee, diet sodas, and other caffeine drinks/foods. Maybe you and I are sensitive to these things. Maybe we'er pre-diabetic. Go with water and sugarless tea and I'm sure you'll see a huge difference.
3. Exercise. Consistency is key. As a baseline I recommend anyone reading this to go outside and exercise moderate to heavy almost everyday of the week. Do I mean go jog five miles? No, but get outside and do all sorts of activities. Me? It's tennis and exercise classes at the gym.
4. Sleep: You have to sleep well and long. Some people need 7 hrs, some need 9. Listen to your body, are you yawning all the time?
5. NASIDS: Try some over the counter pills like aspirin, motrin, or tylenol. See if it makes a difference. It does make a big difference for me, it's just not a total cure.
6. Diet: Ultimately, I believe the number one cause is bad diet. Why do I think this? Well, it all started for me when I was eating the most and the worst. Over the years, that's when its been the most pronounced. I think it's fatty foods, too much salt, too much calories, yada yada yada. My best suggestion is try to slow the eating down. I know its hard but I really think if you drink a lot of water or sugarless tea and eat at least 10% less food than you normally you'll practically see immediate results. Add in more and more exercise and I think you'll get even better. I'm going to use the BMI for a GUIDE, not a cure. I believe if you are overweight you're best chance is to do all of the above and get close to your BMI. That's what I'm shooting for.
Finally, I wish great luck to you all with hard heartbeats. Please let me know how you're feeling and what changes to your lifestyle you've made to make your life better.
Thank you!
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