A cardiologist says there are five ways you can stop heart palpitations without drugs. If you continue having heart palpitations despite having given these five treatment methods a chance, then you should work with your Read more...
A racing heart isn’t always irregular, and an irregular heartbeat can sometimes be racing. It’s important to know what the exact meaning is of these two terms, as they are often indiscriminately interchanged by writers Read more...
If heart palpitations have been scaring you due to frequency, duration or just the way they feel, you need to know exactly what to tell a cardiologist. Read more…
What are the possible causes of a sudden but briefly racing heart with shortness of breath? And do the causes differ with young people vs. older? Read more…
It may happen soon after a big meal or a few hours after: a racing heart well over 100 beats per minute and lots of anxiety. You may have connected the dots early on, or Read more...
Heart palpitations—the perception that the heart is skipping beats, making extra beats or beating erratically, has multiple causes. Low iron levels can be associated with this situation, which ranges from annoying to frightening. Suddenly feeling Read more...
Seems that during an angina attack, the heart rate would always speed up and never slow down, being that oxygen supply to the heart during an anginal episode is shorted. An elevated heart rate means Read more...
Ever wonder why a seemingly healthy teen athlete dies during play? He or she usually had an undiagnosed heart condition. Read more…
Hematoma at junction of thigh and groin. Source: Coronary Interventions; Guédès Sometimes, a hematoma (blood mass) in the thigh forms after cardiac ablation. “When we perform cardiac ablations we most commonly utilize the Read more...
“There are a myriad of reasons someone might experience short-lived palpitations — or the sensation of the heart ‘racing,’” says Michael Hoosien, MD, MSc, a cardiac electrophysiologist with Piedmont Heart Hospital in Atlanta, GA. short Read more...
In most cases, hearing a thumping sound in your ear that’s in rhythm with your heartbeat during exercise is benign. However, there are serious causes that need to be ruled out. Read more...
Your fibromyalgia MAY be the cause of your heart palpitations, but remember, heart palpitations can have many other causes including cardiac. Just because fibromyalgia has been known to cause the perception of heart palpitations doesn’t Read more...
You’re just sitting there relaxed before the TV, computer or reading a magazine when suddenly you get a run of PVC’s. Can a healthy heart have premature ventricular contractions at rest? You know what these Read more...
There’s a very logical reason why premature ventricular contractions or palpitations seem to go hand-in-hand with Prilosec. Prilosec is commonly used in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease -- commonly known as GERD or just Read more...
If you’re a chocolate lover but also suffer from premature ventricular contractions, does this mean you must give up your Heaven? Chocolate is the Eighth Wonder of the world. It's been said that on the Read more...
Thump Thump Thump! Does this describe your heart when you lie on your stomach? Are you feeling a “boom boom boom” that seems to be just a bit too forceful? And it occurs only when Read more...
This is about how to tell the difference between an irregular heartbeat and a twitching muscle in your chest. When a muscle twitches (fasciculates), it can be very rhythmic, kind of like the beat of Read more...
Have you ever experienced a bunch of PVCs for literally two minutes nonstop and feared that a heart attack or cardiac arrest was looming? Read more…
If you’re having so many PVCs that you measure their frequency by the hour, this may have you fearful that you’re afflicted with frequent PVCs. Per hour, per day, how many premature ventricular contractions you Read more...
Normally, a premature ventricular contraction is nothing to worry about, but if you get too many, this can be linked to chronic heart failure. Read more…