HEart Murmur???

[embolicintent]

We all have our areas of knowledge and thats what makes this place so great. Everyone is here to learn, teach and occasionally throw around a little BS. When it comes to holes in the heart, there are basically two types, the ASD and the VSD. The ASD (atrial septal defect) is pretty common. It results in shunting of blood from the high pressure left side of the heart to the low pressure right side of the heart. The amount of shunting depends on how big the hole is. Tiny is good. Most people with this heart defect do not have any symptoms during early life though some will be physically underdevelped and might be more prone to respiratory infections. The real problems can occur with age. Because you increase the flow of blood into the right side of the heart, this increases the pressure. The heart responds by the muscle increasing in size and thickness in order to deal with the increased pressure and still be able to push blood to the lungs. As these individuals hit their 30's and 40's, there is a tendency to develop an atrial arrythmia. As time goes on the pressure in the right side of the heart approaches equality to the left sided pressure and eventually blood flow across this hole will reverse and non-oxygenated blood from the right side of the heart will begin to flow into the left sided (oxygenated) blood flow. When this occurs, heart failure tends to follow. Of course this is usually on into the late 50's to 70's. If you have this type of defect and are under 40, then evaluation by a cardiologist to see how it has progressed and to see about the potential for repair could extend life expectancy a good bit. This is getting long so I won't discuss the VSD (ventricular septal defect) now. As for your ? Fina, yes most arrythmias come on later in life. Congenital (at birth) arrythmias are pretty rare and tend to be more serious.

 

[bumpo]

I had one ater the use of testo. it went away after a few months.

it could be genetic and he could have no problems.

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[FatFinaHead]

We all have our areas of knowledge and thats what makes this place so great. Everyone is here to learn, teach and occasionally throw around a little BS. When it comes to holes in the heart, there are basically two types, the ASD and the VSD. The ASD (atrial septal defect) is pretty common. It results in shunting of blood from the high pressure left side of the heart to the low pressure right side of the heart. The amount of shunting depends on how big the hole is. Tiny is good. Most people with this heart defect do not have any symptoms during early life though some will be physically underdevelped and might be more prone to respiratory infections. The real problems can occur with age. Because you increase the flow of blood into the right side of the heart, this increases the pressure. The heart responds by the muscle increasing in size and thickness in order to deal with the increased pressure and still be able to push blood to the lungs. As these individuals hit their 30's and 40's, there is a tendency to develop an atrial arrythmia. As time goes on the pressure in the right side of the heart approaches equality to the left sided pressure and eventually blood flow across this hole will reverse and non-oxygenated blood from the right side of the heart will begin to flow into the left sided (oxygenated) blood flow. When this occurs, heart failure tends to follow. Of course this is usually on into the late 50's to 70's. If you have this type of defect and are under 40, then evaluation by a cardiologist to see how it has progressed and to see about the potential for repair could extend life expectancy a good bit. This is getting long so I won't discuss the VSD (ventricular septal defect) now. As for your ? Fina, yes most arrythmias come on later in life. Congenital (at birth) arrythmias are pretty rare and tend to be more serious.

How would one know he may have this? I ask because I have reached the age of 30 and the last 2 months I have been getting a sort of fluttering in my chest. This tends to take my breath away and causes me to cough some times. Weird fucking feeling. It is starting to worry me. I do suffer from panic attacks, but these are not panic attacks. I have delt with enough panic attacks in my life to know this is not one. No panicing envolved. Just these wierd thumping feelings and the gasping. It also weakens me when it happens.

Any clues?

 

[embolicintent]

If you think you have an arrythmia then you should just go to your doctor and tell him/her what is going on. Then you can be put on something called a Holter monitor. This is just a little box that you wear on your belt for a day or so and it records your heart's activity. Then you will know if it is your heart. As for murmurs, your doctor can listen with a stethoscope and tell you if there is or isn't a murmur. He may not be able to tell what type it is if there is one, but he can say if it is or isn't present. You are describing symptoms that can be from an arrythmia, but it sounds much more like what are called palpitations. These are extremely common with panic attacks though you may not have had them in the past. They are not necessarily related to episodes of panic. In fact many people with "panic attacks" actually start out with just palpitations. Then they develop anxiety, fear, and concern about the attacks. This then pushes their condition in to what is then termed anxiety disorder. If not dealt with some go on to develop agoraphobia which is the fear of being in places where escape might be difficult such as crowds, bridges, standing in lines, riding buses/trains etc.. Anyhow, before someone can truly be diagnosed with panic disorder, medical causes such as arrythmias must be ruled out. Therefore if you have been diagnosed with this, then you should have had at the very least an EKG first. I would caution you about taking yohimbine as well as it is a famous trigger of panic attacks. I would reccomend you go get a Holter from your doc and at least put your mind at ease that it is nothing serious.

 

[embolicintent]

If you think you have an arrythmia then you should just go to your doctor and tell him/her what is going on. Then you can be put on something called a Holter monitor. This is just a little box that you wear on your belt for a day or so and it records your heart's activity. Then you will know if it is your heart. As for murmurs, your doctor can listen with a stethoscope and tell you if there is or isn't a murmur. He may not be able to tell what type it is if there is one, but he can say if it is or isn't present. You are describing symptoms that can be from an arrythmia, but it sounds much more like what are called palpitations. These are extremely common with panic attacks though you may not have had them in the past. They are not necessarily related to episodes of panic. In fact many people with "panic attacks" actually start out with just palpitations. Then they develop anxiety, fear, and concern about the attacks. This then pushes their condition in to what is then termed anxiety disorder. If not dealt with some go on to develop agoraphobia which is the fear of being in places where escape might be difficult such as crowds, bridges, standing in lines, riding buses/trains etc.. Anyhow, before someone can truly be diagnosed with panic disorder, medical causes such as arrythmias must be ruled out. Therefore if you have been diagnosed with this, then you should have had at the very least an EKG first. I would caution you about taking yohimbine as well as it is a famous trigger of panic attacks. I would reccomend you go get a Holter from your doc and at least put your mind at ease that it is nothing serious.