Hi all,
Does anyone else have that constant feeling that their chest/ heart is about to do something and it doesn't?
I am so aware of my heart beat and pulse it is obsessive. I feel like my heart is grumbling or my chest is just 'loose' but Alive core always shows NFR and normal. Is this just anxiety?
We become so attuned to our heart activity and concerned by it that we become over sensitive and notice things most people without this condition would not notice.
Anxiety is a big part of this condition for most, well many of us unfortunately. As always if in doubt get a medic to check you out for peace of mind.
Be well.
I think this is the mad world of AF. Anxiety hits us all to a greater or lesser extent and we do become obsessed with our hearts. It is 7 years since my third ablation got rid of AF but I still feel every ectopic (quite normal) and any other slight arrhythmias which may creep in from time to time. Keeping busy and distracted helps.
Bob
Hello Kbuck1234
I experience your feelings quite often when I wake up, and lie there starting to feel anxious that I am about to go into full (and unpleasant) blown A-fib, which I don't think helps. So I try to just deliberately ignore the sensations, get up, get showered, dressed etc and go through the normal rituals at the start of my usually busy day. I take my 100mg Atenolol and 1.25mcg Digoxin at breakfast and hope the tablets will stop whatever might be threatening to start! I should say I am a 71 year old retired female with quite a busy. active life. Most of the time I am ok for the rest of the day and don't carry on into full A-fib. When I have gone into what I call "full A-fib" I am pretty useless at carrying on normal life. Joining this Forum recently, which I read every day, has been so informative and helpful, and the responses of other participants to the various queries, worries, happy news, bad news etc, gives indescribable support and reassurance to someone like me who is still in the early days of having this condition, which I was in total ignorance of until I started in 2010. I then had 4 1/2 years of being ok on 50mg Atenolol and aspirin, and thought I would not be troubled with it again........until April of this year when I discovered otherwise! Now on 100 mg Atenolol, 125 mcg Digoxin, and Warfarin and still not ok. Seeing a cardiologist on 18th. I'm on a steep learning curve due to this wonderful website! Thanks to everyone including you, Kbuck1234, as it's so helpful to read that others have similar experiences, and we aren't being paranoid. Well, perhaps only a little bit, justifiably!
P.S. I try not to take my pulse at frequent, various times during the day, as doing that can make me more anxious than I probably need to be when I find it isn't strong, slow and steady.
Yes but only since I have had my ablation. I quite often feel like something is about to start and that there is a kind of silent battle going on inside! After a few minutes all is normal again and my pulse is steady throughout...strange! X
Same here - sometimes it feels like a general tightness and other times my heart feels 'wavy' but AliveCor reports normal. I take Flecainide and Bisoprolol, haven't had an ablation and have had no AF in 10 months.
I suspect digestive upsets to have an input to these pecularities, as well as dehydration and, oddly enough, in my case, too little salt intake - by choice I eat very little salt. Probably in the good old days BAF (Before AF) such changes went unnoticed.
Yes, your description fits what I experience. I think anxiety exacerbates my symptoms too. I have been very careful to avoid getting dehydrated as this seems to be a trigger - as does alcholol so I keep it to the odd glass with a meal and if I am honest, I don't miss it too much.
Are you taking Magnesium Kbuck?
One of the things it does for me is to quieten my heart. It's well known to be a heart calmer.
The awareness of beating and pounding has almost gone away for me now.
I know you were worried before about Magnesium reducing your HR but I'm sure it doesn't. I have a low resting HR.
I think those of us who can hear or feel every heartbeat pounding away can blame very sensitive vegus nerves.
Pat
Good morning Pat, I am due to see a cardiologist in a couple of weeks re high BP and palpitations/fast heart rate. Yes, my heart pounds a lot of the time. I am interested in your comment about 'very sensitive vagus nerves'. Can you enlighten me please - this is a whole new world to me but I am learning so much on this site.
Will start taking magnesium once I've seen the cardiologist.
Many thanks. Jenni
Jenni,
I'm no authority on the vagus nerve but I do like to extensively research things I'm interested in.
I know this link refers to tinnitus but it does explain how the vagus nerve plays a part in transporting sound to the ear and I think it goes someway to explaining how those of us sensitive to it, 'hear' our heartbeat.
Just look up images of the vagus nerve and see how it's responsible for slow and/or fast heart rate and much more.
microtransponder.com/?page_...
Pat
Pat yes I am on magnesium - I agree it's definitely a calmer and for most part has definitely quietened things down. I only take 300mg so maybe I should take more?
I'm taking 900mg daily. Think 600mg won't cause any adverse effects, so you could try that and see how you go.
Pat
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