Palpitations, Breathlessness, Mild Arrhythmia?

I was just wondering what is your pulse rate? I had gone to the e.R. A couple of weeks ago with really bad chest pains, I know the possibilities of me (a 17 year old girl) having a heart attack is rare but I was scared, I just wasn't feeling right so I went in and they took me in first and gave me a ekg which they said was normal and a chest x-ray which my heart was normal size and everything also but then 2 weeks later I went to a clinic for antibiotics for a ear infection, (i had the top of my ear pierced and it got infected) so I went in for that they did the usual checked my blood pressure and then my pulse rate then she had asked me did you drink enough water today? .. I said well yeah I do drink alot of water, she said j/w because your heart rate is very high and thats not good, so she told the doctor the doctor told me to go downstairs for a ekg and he also pulled up my last one from two weeks back on the computer, it said 113 then and then the one from that day was 118 so he referred me to a cardiologist. He said I had tachycardia. He also ran a blood test on me to see how my thyroid glands were and they are fine. My mom even suggested that could this be from her smoking? Or her depo provera shot? He said no.. She said well she got real nervous after you had told her her heart was going fast could it be that she is nervous? B/c I am a very nervous person, but he said no. I'm very scared to see what will happen when I go to the doctor im scared what I might find out...? It also scares me bc im so young and to have to be put on medicine for the rest of my life for this and have to rely on my self to remember to take it every day, and if I dont what is gonna happen to me? So I was really interested in what all happen with you? How are you doing if any one else knows, some treatments for this? Comments? ...Anything will help me...

I am posting on here every time I see symptoms that were like the ones I had but doctors tend to laugh off or use an excuse of anxiety, nerves, menopause, etc. Believe me, it is hard to get your nerves better while this is going on and while each doctor sends you home. I will almost guarantee you also that you will get a clean bill of health from the test they give you also, I know I did, but I still had a disease and it was about to kill me, blocking the left side of my heart off 75%! So how did all my test come back normal? Because they are still using test that were only done on men and lab rats and women's vascular system and vessels are very different.

This is not as common in younger women but I am curious if hormones and changes in them could even be influencing young females? I am hoping this is not the case for you barbiedoll, remember, stress does play a factor in you heart and how it beats and how regular it is so learning to relax is important.
You must look things up, know your symptoms, know what these symptoms can be hinting at and you tell the doctors what your opinion is also, you have that right! As a matter of fact, your life may depend on it.

After much research, trip after trip to the hospital, all the test coming back except for some irregularities in my pulse but still feeling like I was going to die, I discovered to many things that looked like the symptoms I had and the final time I was taken to the hospital and all I remember them saying in the ambulance was, "i think we've lost her' I knew with the last breath I had, I would demand another test. They didn't want to do anything invasive, they only wanted to doctor me with medicine and send me back home and tell me all the things I was doing wrong to cause this, once again, anxiety came in and menopause. I had written on a piece of paper - prinzmetal variant angina - vasospasms and gave it to my husband. When all was said and done and they finally did the invasive procedure, sure enough, the prognosis was, prinzmetal.

Unfortunately there is little that can be done for this, I am on a lot of medicines, I have a lot of lifestyle changes to make, some because I just need to eat and exercise differently, some because it took so long for someone to diagnosis me properly.

Prinzmetal is often called a resting disease because it becomes very painful to sleep or even get good rest, a lot of the symptoms seem to be on the left side of the body and like one poster said, she could feel something wrong in the pulse on her wrist. Boy, was that something I noticed! I would have beats and then just a blank, nothing going on. I had left side numbness on my face and ear, pain in my neck and jaw, in my shoulder. Sometimes it seemed to move and in fact it is, it is different vessels having spasms, including your heart.

This may not be what you have at all but what I am saying, especially to the ladies is, take some of your health concerns into your own hands, you are not a man or a lab rat so there has been very little testing to see how your cardiovascular system works or how you will react to medicines normally use. Take a look at post sent in by some of the males (no offense guys) but a lot of them say, don't worry about, it, its perfectly normal, take this vitamin or eat this food and don't get so worked up about it..... Well, i'm here to tell you if you don't get worked up about it and be informed enough when you go to take that next test, see that next doctor or end up in the hospital you may end up like me, sitting here on the internet at 4 a.M., taking pain pills, 9 different medicines and wish I had just been aware of this disease before. I guess I was just lucky some information I put in on google search happened to bring prinzmetal up, I started not to click on it because I thought it didn't even have anything to do with the heart, I had never heard of it and I study health issues all the time. My wish now and what I am determined to do is bring awareness to others out there, especially women because this is predominately a female disease and I believe we are going to find some correlation between not only symptoms but age factors 40's +/-, time of life, menopause, problems with the female system - hormones not in balance, and most importantly I believe there is a direct correlation with what is happening in this persons life, i.E., divorce, relationship problems, death, depression, job stress, home stress, financial stress, (pretty apparent I am saying stress plays a big part in this). The things I am wanting to find out, is all those details from women all across the us and try to form some kind of a questionnaire for doctors, nurses and emergency room attendants and notice how many women are falling through the cracks as far as heart disease, being sent home with "the problem is all in your head prescriptions", or worse yet, not finding the real culprit and send them home and something terrible happens and no one in their family knows why.

Please, help me bring awareness about this disease, I am contacting the heart association to washington and women's groups to help spread the word and getting on sites like this (which is one of the best I have seen and why I chose it to post on)

take heart, take care,
let me know if you have been diagnosed with prinzmetal or vasospasms
at deeswish4 u@aol.Com
sincerely,
pixie13 (dee)

Hi barbie,

if the doctor told you that you have tachycardio, thats's really nothing to worry. Just find time to relax and and get away from stress and anxiety. I was diagnozed with sinus tachycardia, tmy cardiologist didnt even asked me to take some meds but he instead advise me to pratice a breathing exercise and slowly engaged myself to sports. So that I may get used to my heart beat.

If you have a rapid heart beat, it's either you have some problem in your thyroid, nervous system or you have anemia. But if all of your results were fine, giving you no signs of the above mentioned problem then you are okay. Sinus tachycardia is caused by stress and anxiety. That's why my cardio told me to just relax and dont be nervous.

Hope you get well

I've read a lot of posts on this site about tachycardia and how the doctors are telling you they don't know what causes it. I was getting it so often that the last time I was in to emerg for a shot to slow it down (210/minute) that the Dr. Asked if I was a nurse. I was so good at checking my pulse and all the "lingo". The nurse on duty had been seeing so many young people with the same trouble she said (with a smile) "you should do a study on this". "why are we seeing so many people with this same trouble?"

when one is suffering from this, can't sleep, has tightness in the chest, feels like they can't breath it's difficult to hear from a Dr. That they don't really know what causes it....That it's not often dangerous.....And that you can be medicated for it.

Did you know that a Dr. Gets very little nutritional training while studying medicine? Their knowledge in nutrition is often severely lacking. That's too bad.....Because the human body is made up of cells....And those cells require nutrition. Lots of good nutrition....To function well.

The human heart is a muscle which requires proper electrical function to operate normally. There can be all kinds of reasons for the electrical impluses to get mixed up but if you're body is not getting optimal nutrition ... I can tell you it won't funtion well.

I have not been to the emerg in 6 years now. I have not been put on iv, had an ecg, or been connected to any machines.

You may dispute the need for proper nutrition, but I can tell you from my experience it does wonders for your cells....Literally....If you get the right kind.

I take usana's essentials 3x per day and I wouldnt' go a day without them.

Good luck to all of you with tachycardia. I really and truly hope you find something that works. I know what a pain - literally - this condiation can be.