Question about my heart/anxiety?
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Mike W asked:
I’m a 19 year old male, smoker, with blood pressure at 150/100 and weigh 135 lbs. Height is 5′11″
I had a really weird episode about 5 months back, and ever since then it’s been bugging the hell out of me. I was lying in my bed about to go to sleep, and all of a sudden I felt like I was going to vomit. The onset symptom occured within probably 5 seconds, which was strange because I have never had that before. Sure enough, I ran into the bathroom and put my head over the toilet, but didn’t throw up. I felt my chest start to pound erratically, then within the span of about 4 seconds started having ringing in my ears, saw stars, and started to drift out of consciousness, but didn’t lose consciousness. Instead, I stood up and snapped out of it, but was in Atrial Fibrillation. (not sure if it was that, but my heart was beating oddly when I felt it, but my pulse was pretty much normal. i have had EKG, holter monitor, and event monitor, but the tests were fine. What’s wrong with me?
Also, ever since this happened, I have had weird heart feelings, like my heart is jumping out of my chest randomly, and I get palpitations, but the doctor’s don’t seem concerned. My blood pressure has been at about 150/100, and it might be from anxiety. Is it all in my head because I think about it too much?
I also wanted to add that this night I had about 8 cans of mountain dew within 5 hours, but that was nothing different from what I usually drank. But now I have cut out caffeine all together, but it still doesn’t seem to have an effect.
Question posted courtesy of: Julie
I’m a 19 year old male, smoker, with blood pressure at 150/100 and weigh 135 lbs. Height is 5′11″
I had a really weird episode about 5 months back, and ever since then it’s been bugging the hell out of me. I was lying in my bed about to go to sleep, and all of a sudden I felt like I was going to vomit. The onset symptom occured within probably 5 seconds, which was strange because I have never had that before. Sure enough, I ran into the bathroom and put my head over the toilet, but didn’t throw up. I felt my chest start to pound erratically, then within the span of about 4 seconds started having ringing in my ears, saw stars, and started to drift out of consciousness, but didn’t lose consciousness. Instead, I stood up and snapped out of it, but was in Atrial Fibrillation. (not sure if it was that, but my heart was beating oddly when I felt it, but my pulse was pretty much normal. i have had EKG, holter monitor, and event monitor, but the tests were fine. What’s wrong with me?
Also, ever since this happened, I have had weird heart feelings, like my heart is jumping out of my chest randomly, and I get palpitations, but the doctor’s don’t seem concerned. My blood pressure has been at about 150/100, and it might be from anxiety. Is it all in my head because I think about it too much?
I also wanted to add that this night I had about 8 cans of mountain dew within 5 hours, but that was nothing different from what I usually drank. But now I have cut out caffeine all together, but it still doesn’t seem to have an effect.
Question posted courtesy of: Julie
