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Palpitations (fluttering in chest), made worse by lying on left side
Palpitations (fluttering in chest), made worse by lying on left side
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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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 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 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 53-year old female asked:
Have frequent heart flutters,palpitation,&chest pain. Recent stress-echo test was fine&7days monitor show no significant arrhythmia.When I was lying down on my L side on a thick comforter,its corner hit into the side of my L breast.Can it harm heart?
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A 53-year old female asked:
I have frequent flutters,palpitation,&chest pain.Stress-echo test is fine 6 months ago & recent 7 days monitoring shows no significant arrhythmia. The side of a thick pillow hit the side of my R breast next to my R armpit. Can this harm my heart?
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 47-year old female asked:
Fluttering feeling in chest, feels like heart pulputations. Just as i fell asleep. Always goes away after 10 / 15 minutes?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Having fluttering/ palpitation feeling upper stomach, no chest pain but it's very uncomfortable lasts about a minute.happens more when laying down ?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Having a flutter/popping feeling in my chest where my collar bones meet. I have mild palipitations, and MS, frequency has increased over the last week?
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A 53-year old female asked:
Have frequent flutters,palpitation&chest pain.Recent 7days monitor findings:no significant arrhythmia.There are absolutely no arrhythmia detected on auto-triggered&patient-triggered events.Does it mean I have arrhythmia but it is not " significant"?
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A 47-year old female asked:
I am 47 years old and female .I have been having a fluttering sensation on left side under ribs for about a day and a half .what could this be? I also have a burning pain behind my sternum and if I eat it makes the pain in my sternum worse?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Am getting sharp stabbing pain on my left side of my chest and some times gets flutters?
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A member asked:
What causes something that keeps beating quickly for a few times every now and then in the upper leff chest.exactly 4 cm under collarbone 3 cm to the left side..literally beating like fluttering every few minutes.feels weird?
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A 17-year old male asked:
I have a weird spastic/fluttering feeling in the left side of my chest just below the peck. I'm scared it's my heart. It's happening a lot today?
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