[goblue]

Hi, All - I am have panic/anxiety disorder and have had heart palps (PACs & PVCs) since I was a teenager. I was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse at 14 but then I had another echo in my late 20s that showed I didn't have it. I am going to my new cardio tomorrow and I'm sure I'll be tested again. My symptoms come and go and I can go for long periods, even drinking coffee and generally living a normal life, with no palps - but then, they will kick up again for no good reason. This happened about two weeks ago when I started getting extreme adrenaline rushes followed by palps, especially when sitting down. I can get up and run around, walk around town, climb stairs and don't have palps, but it does make my heart rate go up (I am pretty deconditioned due to fear of exercise making me drop dead). Then, when I sit down at my desk, I will start having palps over and over, sometimes bigeminy, which I HATE so much. This doesn't always happen and it never happens at home, only at work, it seems. I get stressed out very easily and have trouble dealing with people (social anxiety) so this may aggravate it. I don't get it - I have cut out all caffeine, all alcohol (not even champagne on NYE), cut down on refined sugar and am seemingly living a very healthy lifestyle. I would pay any amount of money to be free of these life-stealing palps. It seems that as many people who are suffering these things, doctors would come up with some way to help us besides just saying "ignore it" - YEAH RIGHT!!

Anyway, does anyone else here get this bizarre symptom of having palps after activity? It seems it happens mostly when my HR is going down after activity. Anybody else get the horrible adrenaline thing, too?

[DaniRae]

I think the adrenaline is the panic and anxiety which I have as well. I get palps (PVCs) for no reason. I get them sometimes all day, like today I've had 20 or so.... other days more, other days less. I think I get them more at work (maybe I am just noticing them more). My docs said the same thing, IGNORE THEM... Um, there is a huge thump in my chest, how can I ignore that? I also think I have some type of SVT. Right now my HR is about 110 for no reason. No caffeine etc. and it will stay like that for an hour or so then back down again. I get that about once a week too. Very annoying!

[Chaoticdopey]

i get both the palps and adrenaline rushes. funny thing is i only get the palps when sitting or laying. the most ive had in one day that i could feel was 6 and thats by itself. i dont think iv e had bigemy or SVT but i get the really bad adrenaline rushes, right now the only thing working right now is xanax

[Amanda]

Originally Posted by DaniRae

I think the adrenaline is the panic and anxiety which I have as well. I get palps (PVCs) for no reason. I get them sometimes all day, like today I've had 20 or so.... other days more, other days less. I think I get them more at work (maybe I am just noticing them more). My docs said the same thing, IGNORE THEM... Um, there is a huge thump in my chest, how can I ignore that? I also think I have some type of SVT. Right now my HR is about 110 for no reason. No caffeine etc. and it will stay like that for an hour or so then back down again. I get that about once a week too. Very annoying!

Ive can relate to the raced heart rate for no reason. This has been happeneing to me once every couple days. Ill just be laying down or sitting and my heart will be 110-115 for a couple hours then down to normal. Very uncomfortable because it pounds so hard feels like its coming outa my chest. But im not to worried as a 115 heart rate is slow too what ive experienced with my SVT lol

[Chaoticdopey]

Originally Posted by Amanda

Ive can relate to the raced heart rate for no reason. This has been happeneing to me once every couple days. Ill just be laying down or sitting and my heart will be 110-115 for a couple hours then down to normal. Very uncomfortable because it pounds so hard feels like its coming outa my chest. But im not to worried as a 115 heart rate is slow too what ive experienced with my SVT lol

i used to have the same problem, when i was smoking and still drinking soda with caffeine my resting heart rate was always in the 120s, i was feeling good at that time also, now my resting is in the 40s-50s and i feel like crap with these palps, but you get used to them, im still geting used to them but they arent as scary any more when they hit hard. after i stoped the caffeine my heart rate droped dramaticaly

[Amanda]

Right. having SVT I avoid caffeine at all costs. I just get these moments where my heart decides it wants to be 115-120 for an hour or so lol. Im not that worried as i had the ablation done and 115 to me is slower then what its been.

[DaniRae]

Originally Posted by Amanda

Right. having SVT I avoid caffeine at all costs. I just get these moments where my heart decides it wants to be 115-120 for an hour or so lol. Im not that worried as i had the ablation done and 115 to me is slower then what its been.

I hate the feeling when it hits like 115bpm, just a tight feeling in your chest pffft :p

I stay away from caffeine and stimulants too though, that does seem to help, I think lol

[goblue]

My HR used to be really high when I was going through a bad time with anxiety. It would even race right when I got up every morning up to 130, which scared me to death. Now, my resting heart rate is normal but it's just the palps that are killing me. I don't know which one is worse. I'm glad I'm going to the cardiologist to talk about this today.

[DaniRae]

Please let us know how it goes!!!!

[dr461]

Originally Posted by goblue

Hi, All - I am have panic/anxiety disorder and have had heart palps (PACs & PVCs) since I was a teenager. I was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse at 14 but then I had another echo in my late 20s that showed I didn't have it. I am going to my new cardio tomorrow and I'm sure I'll be tested again. My symptoms come and go and I can go for long periods, even drinking coffee and generally living a normal life, with no palps - but then, they will kick up again for no good reason. This happened about two weeks ago when I started getting extreme adrenaline rushes followed by palps, especially when sitting down. I can get up and run around, walk around town, climb stairs and don't have palps, but it does make my heart rate go up (I am pretty deconditioned due to fear of exercise making me drop dead). Then, when I sit down at my desk, I will start having palps over and over, sometimes bigeminy, which I HATE so much. This doesn't always happen and it never happens at home, only at work, it seems. I get stressed out very easily and have trouble dealing with people (social anxiety) so this may aggravate it. I don't get it - I have cut out all caffeine, all alcohol (not even champagne on NYE), cut down on refined sugar and am seemingly living a very healthy lifestyle. I would pay any amount of money to be free of these life-stealing palps. It seems that as many people who are suffering these things, doctors would come up with some way to help us besides just saying "ignore it" - YEAH RIGHT!!

Anyway, does anyone else here get this bizarre symptom of having palps after activity? It seems it happens mostly when my HR is going down after activity. Anybody else get the horrible adrenaline thing, too?

All the time. Activity and the adrenaline rush can definitely kick them off for sure. It is NOT easy to ignore them as we all know--the best advice I can offer is to develop a strategy to live with them so they don't consume your entire existence. Is this easy? No, but it can be done with work and practice.