Heart Stopping And Waking Up Gasping For Air! Please Help!!! Posted: 09-12-07 08:49am
Hi there,
Im a 24 year old pretty healthy female,
who for the past 3 months or so have been
experiencing my heart beat problem. I have
had palputations before, But i have
noticed that when it gets to night time
and im all relaxed, i can feel my heart
jumping. When i check my pulse, every
10-20 beats, it will just stop and miss up
to 2 beats. It feels so horrible. Its not
painful at all but makes me feel very sick
and i cant get my breath.
Its really not a nice sensation and there
is noting i can do to stop it. When i get
it on a evening, i wake up in the middle
of the night GASPING for air, as if my
body as just stopped breathing. Its so
scary.
Im going to the doctors this friday but i
know they will just send me for a egc
scan. I Was just wondering if anyone had
the same Gasping sensation in the middle
of night like i do. Im also wanting to
start trying for a baby with my partner,
but we are worried of putting any type of
strain on my heart.
Please help me. Its so scary
Thank You
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sheptr2
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 4
Posted: 09-19-07 19:34pm
well obviously check it out but i was
having similar things at night like
whenever i was really relaxed or about to
fall asleep my heart would feel like it
was beating with a lot of force and
abnormally fast. THUMP! and sometimes it
felt like it was missing beats.
i went to the doctor they ran all the
tests and my heart came back perfectly
healthily but i ended up having an
overactive thyroid. not a big deal, it was
some temporary thyroid problem that can
happen to anyone, it cleared up in a few
months, the gave me some extremely small
dose of a beta blocker to slow it down and
it worked well.
just to let you know, if you life in the
USA and go to the emergency room, if you
tell then your heart feels weird and your
having palpitations they take you
immediately without waiting or paperwork.
thyroid is somewhat common cause of these
irregular heart beats, I'm an 18 year old
male and it happened to me, its possibly
caused by stress I've heard... i think
that was the case for me.. but ya I'm
totally fine now about to start swimming
this fall for my college!
