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Buzzing in my heart

Rakehellion

Rakehellion

Lifer
Sometimes I feel a buzzing sensation in my heart, like it's beating 10 times a second, then I get a mild shortness of breath. What could this be?
 
Tachycardia, or atrial fib (the atrium is fluttering). You're probably going to die. In fact, I'd bet my life savings that you're going to die. Though, it might not be until you're 70 or 80 years of age.

Regardless, the RN in my house says "tell him to lay off the caffeine" and to "he should get it checked out."

She also said, "puberty" and snickered.
 
DrPizza said:
Tachycardia, or atrial fib (the atrium is fluttering). You're probably going to die. In fact, I'd bet my life savings that you're going to die. Though, it might not be until you're 70 or 80 years of age.

Regardless, the RN in my house says "tell him to lay off the caffeine" and to "he should get it checked out."

She also said, "puberty" and snickered.
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I don't take caffeine or nicotine, I'm not on any prescriptions, I'm in my twenties, exercise regularly, and well within the normal weight range for my height.
 
Rakehellion said:
I don't take caffeine or nicotine, I'm not on any prescriptions, I'm in my twenties, exercise regularly, and well within the normal weight range for my height.
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You should smoke cigarettes, and drink coffee and whisky. That's what I did in my 20s, and I didn't have heart issues.
 
Rakehellion said:
It lasts about a second. It used to happen infrequently, now I'm getting it once a week.
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I get the same thing although mine last about 5-10mins and my heart rate races to around 160-180 per minute....It start about 7 yrs ago and only noticed while on the golf course, go so the wife nagged me to go to the doctors as it would happen at anytime, even sitting on the couch FFS!...Turns out I have LBBB, which means the left side of my heart has a delayed spark to create the beat...anyway, have been on Beta Blockers for around 4 years now, but get the accelerated beat every one and awhile...My doctor says their is a consensus that most people would benefit from Beta Blockers as it controls the heart muscle better...go figure..
 
Heart palpitations are generally harmless but seem scary. I've had them but only went to the doctor when one day I was having one every 5 seconds or so. (I even have the EKG to show it). The doctor put me on a beta blocker (blood pressure medicine) because he said the beta blocker will help the palpitations go away. Once I took them they went away. Then stopped the medication a month or two later. I haven't really had them since.
 
Nature's beta blocker, magnesium, is rarely prescribed by doctor$ because big bucks are only made from patentable substances. Too bad because most Americans consume way too much calcium and far too little magnesium.
 
Rakehellion said:
I don't take caffeine or nicotine, I'm not on any prescriptions, I'm in my twenties, exercise regularly, and well within the normal weight range for my height.
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Well then the only remaining differential is hypercalcemia, probably due to lymphoma, get some health insurance.
 
That sounds familiar. Mine gets a bit more frequent when under stress, though it's still maybe only once every other day, at most, and normally about once a week.

Just a brief feeling of....I don't know if "buzzing" is quite what I'd use, but I guess that's a reasonable approximation. Then there's a little feeling of wanting to cough a few times, then it's gone.

My mom had the same thing.

I've also got some kind of bundle branch block, though apparently there's one side that's worse to have it on than the other, and the side I've got it on is evidently the one that the doctor wasn't too concerned about. But, it did seem to stand out quite prominently on the EKG, at least to people who know what they're looking for.



I received some rather intensive heart examinations sometime last year - at some point, it started to feel like someone had lodged a golf ball under my rib cage, over to the left of my heart. Very minor pain, though there were occasional twinges when it would worsen, only for a second or so, and eventually it started to spike slightly up into my neck, and into my left arm.

Good god hospital time is expensive, as is an ambulance ride. (Insurance took care of it, but that overinflated amount of money is going to come from somewhere.)

No problem was ever found, and it went away on its own.
*shrug*



And on a side note, nitroglycerin tablets suck. I understand that they give them in order to dilate your blood vessels in case a heart attack is in the works.
My limbs and abdomen went entirely numb, and I nearly passed out lying down. They also said some rather interesting things about how far my blood pressure dropped.
 
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My uncle had that, about a week before they slit his chest open for a quintuple bypass.

Don't wait, get help from real medical professionals. They'll have ways to help cover the costs.
 
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