I have been struggling the past 5 months with a sudden onset of heavy palpitations. Everything I eat something, go up the stairs or not much in particular my symptoms get worse especially during evenings. I feel like I cannot escape my own body and have limited quality of live due to feeling fatigue most days where I cannot carry out my day to day activities. Everything has to be planned now. Feeling a lot of pressure at the moment with being at university and finding the energy to do all my work. I worry about my future everyday.. ECG and bloods have been fine. I went to the out of hours GP on Monday night after feeling particularly faint and dizzy with a bounding pulse. The doctor said he could hear a murmur and to get onto my GP to move my cardiologist app closer. He said he cannot speculate About what it is. Luckily I spoke to my GP and they have referred me to have an echocardiogram which I’m looking forward to hopefully getting some answers.
More than anything I am just feeling very alone with all of this.. I’m 26 years old. Mentally is something I’m struggling with everyday. I know I shouldn’t but I do compare my quality of life to others during all of this. I’ve had a few set backs this year which have effected and I’m just finding everything a bit hard to deal with. As many of you know it can be difficult to deal with the constant awareness of your heart flapping away haha. Please if anyone has any tips on how they deal with everything mentally it would really help..
I hope this all makes sense. Thank you for reading x
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Go to student services and ask them if there is a yoga class in the university you can join. The breathing you will learn may really help you. I was desperate at one point to get some control back over the banging heart and I paid for one private lesson. I was too ill to join a class. The instructor was really good and over the course of an hour taught me a couple of breathing techniques which I have used a lot. It might not help you as different things work for different people, but it really helped me feel less stressed and calmer. Good luck with the course.
Hi del I know you have heard this so many times but could well be your stress that’s causing your heart problems.Remember a lot of people are born with an heart murmur and only find out in their 70s You are on the radar now and you will be sorted they are proberbly pushing you through not because you in need of urgent treatment but because of your age you shouldn’t be spending time thinking about health problems and that’s how the medical professional think .In the same way they told me well your in your 70s you have an ageing heart and you may well get some problems .take care and just tell yourself this will be sorted soon xxx
Hi Del26, my cardiologist told me to do the pressure equalization for the ear. You know, which you can do by pressing air against your nose while closing it with your thumb and fingers. This gives an impulse to the heart and it can come back to a normal rythm. Maybe it is just a trick to get your mind of the palpitations but it works fine for me. Try it.
There are certain foods that can trigger palpitations in some individuals. These include alcohol, coffee, chocolate and spicy food. Other triggers include smoking and recreational drugs.
If applicable it may be worth eliminating these from your life. Trying yoga as suggested may also be helpful. Good luck!
Do go straight to Student Counselling services. It sounds like you could really do with someone to talk to.
There are so many challenges and adjustments to make be made at College, and, I’m sure, lots of pressure too. The Counsellors do know what lots of other students go through, and how they might help.
Mindful meditation will help a little. Try mindful.org. I started meditating for 5 minutes a day. I now meditate for 2 minutes every day.
When I was doing 5 minutes I set a timer, but was often trying to anticipate the buzzer. Setting a goal of only 2 minutes means I achieve my target about 13 days out of 14. I also often meditate for 3, 4 or 5 minutes anyway (as it’s not timed).
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