loreta said:
Hi everybody,
This afternoon suddenly my heart started to beat real, real, real rapidly and very strong, boum! boum! boum! I felt the pulse so strongly that my chest was vibrating. I took water with salt, did some breathing exercises but the thing continue so I decided, even if I felt not very well but with no pain, to go to urgency. There they took me right away and made me an electrocardio. I hear one nurse tell that my pulse was at 200. The electro looked good, so the nurse said but I had to see the doctor. After 4 hours I saw the doctor and i passed a second electro. That was perfect. 60 pulses. Now I am at home.
What causes your heart to beat like this so suddenly? I was fine one moment and one second later this heart became crazy. Can it be the iodine? I don't take much of it, one drop every 2 days. today I did not take iodine. Is this too much coffee? 4 by day. Can it be a symptom emerging after the stress that I had with the situation of my husband? Like an aftershock?
After 4 hours in urgency now I just want to go to bed. :) Happy to be alive. :) but a little worried. What I had today was the first time something like this happened to me with my heart. Scary! But now I am ok.
What could it be?
Thanks for your opinion and thanks to listen to me.
I decided to post this, because I felt you got some indefinite answers, and it is understandable, people are supportive and try to answer as good as possible. Thanks everybody for your answers! They help me as well.
Hey Loreta - This happened to me as well in July. I had 230 beats pe minute. Had a holter monitor, blood samples taken, everything seemed to be fine. They still wanted to test my thyroid, but I refused and left the hospital. I am 23 years old. My heart should be just fine, I did not eat in my youth junk food(junk food more expensive than raising animals, or buying organic vegetables from the peasant's market) as it was expensive in Romania. I rarely eat a pizza, now in Denmark where I can afford it.
Reasons might be - strange electrical conduction in the body can happen from time to time. Sometimes it happens from too much sport. It is called the Athletic Heart Syndrome.
Another very very common condition(and don't be scared), is Supraventricular Tachycardia - Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) means that from time to time your heart beats very fast for a reason other than exercise, high fever, or stress. For most people who have SVT, the heart still works normally to pump blood through the body.
Questions to ask - do you remember when the heart race first started, were you bending to pick up something, or did you turn around fast, did you jump, or walked up the stairs? Ussualy SVT starts when you do a sudden movement, or sometimes you just relax out of nothing, you have a small skipped beat(fluttering) and you feel like a bubble of air sits in your chest and then BOOOM, of a sudden the heart starts racing.
What you can do to avoid this is to really stimulate your vagus nerve, take a deep breath of air, and then exhale powerfully, like you were constipated
. Do this many times, and don't panic, your heart can go on for at least 1-2 days on a fast heart rate until you get very tired.
Just focus on breathing deep, to avoid hyperventilation. Sit and breathe, remember "the constipation procedure - when you force your stomach".
Some people choose to treat their SVT(ablation), some not(they do the breathing technique). Ablation is not the best cure, as many patients complained still having these episodes.
Remember - Don't panic! You can induce anxiety and then you will not know what you will have a SVT episode or anxiety.
Other condition could be an overactive thyroid. But that does rarely goes into what is called "thyroid storm". Careful with the iodine in this case. Never take an advice from the forum as granted if you don't check your body first and see what you can take in. Otherwise it is just like a "rat experiment". I agree that by now it must have helped a lot of people, but please check yourself to be able to be sure you can start a procedure(ex. iodine intake, keto diet etc).
I have these episodes, and you will see that probably this is the beginning. I don't want to scare you but it is possible that during your lifetime you will experience them. I have like 3-4 per year.
Hope this helps.
Ed
PS what also really helped me was to drink a glass of salted water in the morning, and avoid eating too much daily. Like once a day. Fasting really helps with any condition.
Also do a moderate level of exercises, wash your face with cold water(also this works in a episode of SVT, just plug your face in very cold water, the sudden change of temperature stimulates your heart rhythm).
Also you can massage you sinus carotid - on the neck - check on Google, you will see the procedure.
