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Flutter
Atrial flutter is an abnormal heart rhythm in the top of the heart in which the top of the heart beats very fast but very regularly (as opposed to atrial fibrillation which is always irregular) and can lead to a rapid heart rate and increased risk for stroke.
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: flutter?
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A 24-year old female asked:
This my fourth baby and felt something like flutters can u feel them at 14weeks 3days?
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A 47-year old asked:
How often should I use my flutter device?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Having flutters at 10 weeks, what does this mean?
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A 43-year old female asked:
I have a flutter in my stomache area. What could it be?
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A 49-year old asked:
What could be a fluttering on the left side under your ribcage be?
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A 43-year old asked:
I have this weird fluttering feeling in my chest. Should i be worried?
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A 49-year old asked:
What is the fluttering feeling in my chest when i think about my wife?
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A 52-year old male asked:
I keep having these off and on fluttering on the left side of my lower back?
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A 52-year old female asked:
I had a fluttering heartbeat for the past two weeks. What is this indicating ?
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A 47-year old asked:
What exactly does it mean when you feel a flutter like butterflies in your chest?
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A 16-year old female asked:
Heartbeat sped up rapidly when I was just sitting watching TV. Felt like it was fluttering.
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A 21-year old male asked:
Sudden flutter in the centre of the chest sometimes once or twice a day. I had 2 in 10 minutes. ?
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A 21-year old male asked:
My chest feels weird and I have strange fluttering sensations followed by a weird sensation. What can it be?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Occasional random flutter type sensation in chest. Not a racing feeling. It happens very quickly, and is gone. ?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Sometimes when i lay down in bed i get what feels like a fluttering in my chest is this normal and what can cause this?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I'm 18 weeks and couple days & I always feel flutters but I haven't felt them in two days is my baby ok should I be concern?
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A 26-year old female asked:
I was having flutters on the right side of my chest for a couple of seconds an my boyfriend noticed it too an im not sure what that means???
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A 32-year old female asked:
I'm 32, quite fit female but have been getting flutters in my chest the last two days that are really freaking me out, don't have any pain with them?
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A 20-year old female asked:
People explain baby kicks like flutters/butterflies. I am 19weeks and feel thumps on the inside and out. Can thia be baby kicking. Never felt flutters?
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A male asked:
Have a flutter in my chest has become more and more frequent with age. Is it serious? The flutter started when i was about 6 I am now 35 it happens frequently when I am very active. Sometimes if i work out, certain exercises cause the sensation when i am
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A 55-year old male asked:
Fluttering in upper stomach?
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A 38-year old asked:
What causes your stomach to flutter?
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A 34-year old asked:
What causes heart fluttering?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Fluttering sensation in leg. What could it be?
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A 48-year old asked:
This is worrying. Why is my heart fluttering so much?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Why is it fluttering in my fallopian tube?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Flutters of the stomach...Lower stomach pains?
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A 30-year old asked:
What could fluttering in my uterus mean?
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A 46-year old female asked:
There is fluttering in my ear. What is it? Should I have it checked?
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