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Palpitations (fluttering in chest), made worse by emotional stress
Palpitations (fluttering in chest), made worse by emotional stress
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 33-year old female asked:
When i take my rescue inhaler it makes my palpitations worse and i get fluttering. I take a beta blocker daily. Now my hr is so high 197 , chest hurt?
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A 37-year old female asked:
Palpitations from anxiety per doctor. Seem to be more severe lately. Entire chest seems to flutter. Also worse on exhaling after deep breath. Normal?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Why does my chest feel sore after days of constant palpitations and fluttering ?.
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A 26-year old female asked:
Can acid reflux cause a fluttering or quiver sensation in your chest? Or actually cause palpitations?
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A 50-year old asked:
Palpitations, heart flutters, like your heart drops in your chest likes its drowning and then goes back to normal, what to do?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Palpitations? I get a flutter/twitch feeling in my chest towards the left center. Followed by what feels like a skipped/paused beat. Felt in pulse too
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A 31-year old asked:
Heart palpitations, flutter and bubble sensation all over and lingering chest pain. Any helpful info?
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A 27-year old male asked:
I've been experiencing a fluttering sensation in my chest (i suppose where the sternum is) for the past two weeks. Heart palpitations?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Had virtually every diagnostic test- all negative. Still have constant palpitations, spasms in heart, cough, heart fluttering, chest pain. What is it?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Is a high heart rate followed by palpitations and sometimes chest pain bad at 17? I have anxiety and I work out a lot. I am healthy and in shape but my heart rate reaches 202. When I am just sitting down my heart flutters and feels like its dropping?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Bloodwork chest xrays ekgs stress test echo`s..24hr and event holter came back good. Still having annoying pacs/heart fluttering any thoughts on this?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Sitting at computer and felt a flutter in chest. I assumed palpitation.I immediately checked pulse in neck andwas no strong beat, just weak stutter.
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A 18-year old female asked:
I am an 18-year-old girl who is having heart palpitations and feeling like my heart is fluttering along with feeling liquid in my chest, going down, and it feels like my heart squeezing when Im not anxious and just laying down is this normal?
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A 31-year old male asked:
I just started Zoloft 3 days ago and have noticed heart palpitations or flutter feeling in upper chest all night on my 3rd day of medication and this morning. Is this a normal reaction to the medication? Im 31 years old and otherwise healthy?
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A 34-year old male asked:
Not sure what I'm feeling with my heart. Once in a while when working out, I'll feel a flutter or two in my chest. But maybe it's a palpitation. Feels like it beats REALLY hard for a single beat. Arrhythmia runs in my family. Should I be concerned?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Recently been getting random palpitations often, no chest flutters or dizziness, 30 sec ecg always normal, could it be an arrhythmia?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Increased palpitations and heart flutters general chest discomfort (no heart disease + normal echo) medication or un noticed subconscious anxiety?
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A 54-year old female asked:
I have some light heart problems: palpitation, heart flutters, chest pain, an enlarged aorta (not to the dangerous level). Can intermittent fasting (I want to do it when I don't feel hungry and probably once or twice a week) harm my heart?
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A 32-year old male asked:
Wow. Lots of palpitations over the last year BUT I JUST FOUND OUT HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN ON COMMAND. Laying on left side even propped up, if i reach my right arm over my chest and almost squeeze my pecs together, boom, heart pumps hard flutters. Why?
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A 55-year old female asked:
I have occasional heart flutters&constant chest pain.A few yrs ago,I got an echo stress test&heart monitoring:good results.Recently, when I lie down or sit down,I have chest pain & my heart races for up to 1-2 minutes.Is this symptom a heart problem?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Been having heart palpitations for a around a week now, i'll usually get around 2-3 flutters and fast heartbeat.Had clear ekg, chest x-ray, blood test.
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A 29-year old male asked:
29M, high BP. 4y ago start having pain & symptoms in chest and the back between shoulders, fatigue, short of breath, flutter in chest & chronic cough, ECG is abnormal, stress & echo are fine so I was sent home, symptoms are progressing. what to do?
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A 20-year old female asked:
I did an echocardiogram and the impression was possible bicuspid aortic valve with trace aortic regurgitation. Trace tricuspid regurgitation and pulmonic regurgitation. What does this mean ? I have severe chest pain, heart palpitations, and flutters?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Sometimes I feel chest tightness&palpitations but dr say it's stress.But when she was diagnosing me there wasn't symptoms at the moment.is it ok?
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A 42-year old female asked:
I feel thumps on my chest all the time, n palpitations, missed heart beats. Im under a lot of stress. No pain at all. Should i worried?
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A 32-year old asked:
When stressed or emotional i experience tightness in chest,dizziness, losing balance.Currenty im on xanax but it has little effect.Is this dangerous?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Option neuritis, possibly MS, now tight chest extra dizziness and huge palpitations waking me up at night. Not anxious or stressed. Emergency? 30yrs
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A 37-year old female asked:
I have palpitations that dr. Says are anxiety/stress related. Ekg / holter ok. Is it normal for palps to be so strong entire torso seems to flutter?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Im 23, Ive had a ekg, blood tests, and chest X-ray 4 times in the er for chest pain and palpitations. Everytime they tell me all the tests are good. They tell me its anxiety and stress related, should I worry about heart attack after all the test?
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A 38-year old male asked:
How can you tell difference between heart palpitation and arrhythmia? Occasionally get fluttering heartbeat, not necessarily related to stress or exercise. Has happened through adult life, only lasts for seconds at a time. Feels scary, but goes away.
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