You wrote:
"Current medical status: Was addmitted in hospital on 2/3/07 for chest pain. Kept me overnight for observation. Check Cardiac Enzymes in blood 3 times throughout the night along with EKG's. All was normal. Had EcoCardiogram Stress Test & UltraSound of heart. All normal. Cardiologist said he would see me in 10 years."
According to the symptoms you report (feeling heart palpitations only at rest, feeling the heartbeat in the throat) plus a history of being under stress... and given that all cardiology medical tests were OK... you could be experiencing some kind of anxiety disorder...probably panic attacks or hypochondria. Many heart diseases can occur suddenly but they appear so only from the outside. In fact, every heart disease has an organic substrate that requires time to develop and to cause a “sudden” manifestation. The purpose of cardiologist's medical tests’ is to reveal those organic changes of the heart when the symptoms occur... or even before symptoms can occur. For example, heart attacks occur suddenly but the organic changes of the heart (atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries) need years to develop and reach the levels necessary for a heart attack to happen. In your case, all the tests were negative which means that the problem is probably not in your heart but in your head.
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