fast heartbeat after eating

[azura]

what causes heartbeat quickening after eating

[Mauser1905]

Essentially the restructured oesophagus+stomach anatomy put excessive pressure on the lungs and diaphragm.

With breathing slowed, heart has to work harder to catch up, palpitations.

Palpitations in patients of IL Op typically happens along With breathlessness, after eating meals.

[kiddy]

Hi this could be dumping syndrome or simply over eating. Check the sugar fat content and keep a diary what causes it. The stomach is pulled up to the chest level .

Best Wishes

Debbie

[David_K]

I am 2 years post IL and have found heart palpitations, aka dumping syndrome is mainly due to eating too much in one go or to fast. Not so much what you eat but how much, and also one must not gulp the food down no matter how delish, small bites/chew it well before swallowing/don’t load next mouthful until previous is swallowed 🤗😎

[Cortex1]

Dumping syndrome is my best guess.

[Hidden]

It might be that it is 'palpitations' connected with dumping syndrome?

opa.org.uk/downloads/docs/q...

When food that is partly-digested runs through the system, the different levels of sugar can lead to osmotic pressure. In a leaflet produced by CORE charity, it says that 'the bowel contracts vigorously (producing tummy rumblings)' and it tries to suck water from other parts pf the body. This transfer of water 'can amount to as much as three pints, and as some of that is drawn from the blood, the reduction in blood volume leads to faintness, sweating, desire to lie down and palpitations'.

[gutlesswonder]

All the above are true, also I suspect that there may be a reverbatory effect occurring, due to the impingement of the pseudo-stomach in contact with the heart; hence to some degree the slightly alarming feeling could be illusory.

In my case, because I lost my right lung to a metastasis the heart has shifted marginally to the right into the ensuing void. I have theorized that as a result the stretched left recurrent laryngeal nerve is twanged as it passes around and under the coronary artery.

Fascinating, perhaps one day all our conundrums will have been unraveled.