Feeling your heart racing, skipping, pounding, thumping, jumping can be so scary.
Even after doctor after doctor tells you “you’re fine” and that “nothing is wrong,” feeling a lot of things going on with your heartbeat can still produce a ton of anxiety and fear into many men and women.
But just WHAT is going on with your ticker, then?
Why do you feel it so much?
Below are articles with feedback from cardiologists to whom I asked very specific questions relating to thumping, fluttering and racing heartbeats.
Heartbeat Related Articles
What if your heart flutters after lying down?
Is there any significance to a fluttering heartbeat upon lying down? Here is what usually happens:
Almost immediately after your head hits the pillow, you become aware of something going on in your chest. And it doesn’t feel right.
You begin worrying there’s something wrong with your heart, even if you’re young.
You are positive it’s not a twitching muscle in your chest. It feels like your heart because that’s exactly what it is. You are calm and still, so why is your heart doing flip-flops?
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Should you worry if your heart thumps?
You’ve heard of things going “bump in the night.” What if your heart goes “thump in the night” or day?
For example, you could be focusing on a task at work, when suddenly…ba-boom! What just happened with your heart?
A thump is not the same as a flutter. Here’s the info you need about thumpers.
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Diagnosed with a class II heart murmur and scared this means trouble?
I was told I had a class II heart murmur by a cardiologist. It was scary when the cardiologist kept on listening to his stethoscope; I kept wondering why he wouldn’t put the instrument down already.
This really unnerved me.
He ordered an echocardiogram and an MR angiogram — and I finally got the diagnosis.
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Does eating make your heart beat fast?
Eating can speed up heart rate. This is not your imagination. ‘
It’s worrisome to many people and can even happen to seemingly healthy people. A fast pulse from eating can even happens to athletes.
