I am worried, please help?

Question

I am worried something is wrong with my heart. I am always thinking my heart is just going to stop. I have severe panic attacks that strike me for no reason at all. My heart starts pounding really hard and I can feel in flutter in my chest. I had a EKG in 2003 and one this past February. The doctor did not tell me if anything was wrong with my heart. What should I do? I am so scared my heart is going to just stop on me. Serious answers please, thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need a psychiatrist, not a cardiologist. It sounds like you heart already checked out just fine. Your anxiety on the other hand needs treatment. Many drugs are available to treat anxiety including SSRIs like Zoloft and Paxil.

Go to the doctor.

Answer 2

Your doctor didn't tell you anything was wrong with your heart presumably because he didn't know whether there was.
If he could interpret the EKG it would show up immediately, so either there wasn't any sign, or he missed it. You should simply ask straight out "What can you tell from my EKG Doctor?". If you get no satisfactory answer you must change your doctor to one who'll discuss it sensibly with you. You're paying, and are entitled to know.
It sounds from your description that the mechanisms regulating your heart beat are perhaps suspect, and a more thorough investigation is needed, and perhaps a 24-hour monitor would be helpful, to record what's happning if and when it does. Nowadays it's possible to monitor at home and when the symptoms come on you can send the recorded results down the phone line for analysis. I'd reccommend that, simply because, even a 24 hr. record might show nothing but your next attack happen ten minutes later!
Oh, incidentally, just one comforting thought, the probability of your heat simply "stopping on you" is so remote as to be ignored. It must be terribly frightening, but honestly, it won't happen!
Are you on medications for panic attacks? Despite what orthodox medicine believes, many of the medications used to treat these attacks do exacerbate both symptoms and severity in some individuals. "One size" certainly "doesn't fit all"
Check what side-effects are listed for any drugs you are taking.

Answer 3

First of all, DO NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEART. The worry is causing panic attacks which will substantially increase your heart rate. The panic attacks sometimes come in waves and is a 'chemical imbalance'.

When people worry about heart conditions or any other condition, that parallel is 'sent back to them.' You should be instead thinking about 'how you KNOW' that your heart is whole and fine.

The fluttering is called PVC arrhythmia (premature ventricular contractions). Yours is being induced by YOU and you alone.

How do it know? Because I used to go through exactly what you are discribing...in fact I was so overmedicated for this condition (3,500 PVC's per day on a 24 hr. monitor) that it darn near killed me just from taking the medication. Instead of medication, try meditation...and you can also try Chriopratic care. This care I had chosen lowered my blood pressure, stopped the panic attacks, stopped my 'hot flashes', stopped my arrhythmia and I finally, after 13 years was weaned from all that medication that could have taken my life because there was so much of it.

The constant worry of something being wrong, only made more meds 'not' work. I went through a horrible drug withdrawal, even though all those meds were ordered by cardiologists. Today, I'm as healthy as I was when I was 20 years old, and I'm 57...so this should tell you something.

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Answer 4

If your cardiologist has said nothing that means your heart is working normal and nothing is to worry !! second thing is why your cardiologist has said nothing to you ????it is a big question !! He should have at least said that it is normal and EKG report also he has to give you for your future reference and filing it ! So now next time without any hesiation you plz ask the report with the EKG tracing also so some other cardiologist also can read it for you ok ! Always YouRsmE

Answer 5

Severe panic attacks cause the sensations you are talking about. You are doing the right thing to talk to a doctor about your symptoms and the EKG will tell him/her if you are at risk for a heart attack. Lots of people (women especially) experience the 'fluttering' you are talking about - me included. They are often just a premature heartbeat that will correct itself. There is no reason to believe that your heart will stop. Make sure that you insist that your doctor gives you a diagnosis or refers you to a specialist if he/she is uncertain to give you peace of mind.

Answer 6

If you are seen by a cardiologist he will have you do a stress test and give you the results.

Answer 7

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