Heart worries

[laurenx95]

Yesterday I was at the hospital returning my 24hour heart monitor and coming up a flight of stairs had my heart racing! It really scared me! I am normal weight no history of cardiac issues it anything and I'm 21. I'm hoping it's just because I need to be a bit healthier and it's not a heart issue! It doesn't happen when I climb my stairs at home (unless it's a hot day) so I don't know if it's something to be concerned about? My anxiety just goes into overdrive when I'm like this!

[Usagold]

It could easily just be your anxiety. Before anxiety hit, I was very active and athletic, but once my nervous system got hyper stimulated, even walking upstairs would cause my heart to overwork and I'd get out of breath! I've had to stop working out, riding my bike... I'm doing a little better right now, so I'm trying to slowly get back into it. My heart issues have been my most bothersome symptom of anxiety. I get missed beats and my heart races and scares me. I had gotten to where I was afraid to exercise or do much of anything. Even still, if I exert a lot, and my heart rate gets up, I start feeling panicky, which makes it go even faster, starts skipping... I don't think it's actually a problem with my heart, though, I think it's my anxiety causing it, so I'm trying to overcome the fear of it. On days I feel more calm, I can do chores, work in my garden, run upstairs, and my heart doesn't race up, but when my anxiety is high, it's real bad, like I have to sit or lie down before it will slow back down to normal.

[laurenx95 in reply to Usagold]

This is excacrlt what I am like!! Your reply is like reading my life too lol thankyou I feel a bit more reassured now!xx

[Hanachan]

It look like ur anxiety i have mine holter ecg done few months ago---while i have holter ecg i feel my heart is racing when i climb few stairs i feel tired-----while in night time i get up and think myheart is beating so badly i wanna throw the holter machine as i think it caught some problem---but when my holter ecg result come my cardiologist disucss with me in detail he say me that my heart holter ecg result is 98.75% but he mentiin 99% to me he say thats a very good result my heart beat some time get slow like gape between beats but its not long no pause not thing dangerous seen for satisfaction i do echo which is clear now i do ct angiography and waiting for the result... i m 31 y male-----in the age of u its very very very rare to have heart disease dont google ur symptoms u r fine just try to make ur self busy insome kind of activites like sports reading books fihsinf etc etc u r fine its just ur anxiety which will create the circumstances like a heart patient ur normal and have a normal holter ecg best of luck