Heart skipping beats at random?

[kx250rider]

I'm a little worried here... And I'm going to my regular doctor this afternoon to look into this. Here's the bottom line:

Had a bad BAD bug of some kind about 3 weeks ago; fever, chills, severe cough and lung pain, and glands all swollen in neck. Lasted about a week like that, and then turned into a bad cold, and then into a pneumonia-type thing and I was put on Keflex (antibiotic) for 5 days. That all got better, but now my heart is in an arrhythmia whereby it "hiccups", or beats normally for awhile, then will skip a beat every 7 or 8 beats. I feel perfect otherwise; no pains in chest or arms, no shortness of breath, and in fact I have even done a fast up-hill run to see if that would make it worse, and it actually stopped the problem for an hour or so in stead.

The only other thing I can possibly think of, is that I started taking chromium picolinate 2000mg/day around the same time I got that bug. I stopped the supplement right away when I noticed the heart thing, but it made no difference to stop. I also cut the coffee in the morning, and quit taking Adderall (prescribed for high functioning autism and ADD). Still no change, and the doctor I see for that, says I shouldn't just quit it like that, so I'm back on it now. She doesn't think it is related.

I don't cycle, and the only thing I'm on as far as AAS, is T-cyp 600mg/week; also prescribed and supervised. I just had my 6-month hormone bloodwork done a month ago, and all is fine. (Before judging the 600mg dose, I have aldosteronism, and that is a glandular problem which screws up all hormone levels. When I am on the maintenance dose of T-cyp, my levels are "normal" for a 40-year-old). Thyroid is all in mid-normal range, and there isn't anything I'm not admitting to here. I do use muscle milk, and take various OTC vitamins and L-arginine. I eat right, and no fried foods or junkfood.

SO my question is, does anyone have any experience with irregular heartbeat, and if so, what did you do about it, or did your doctor just shrug it off?

Charles

 

[bignickel]

I also get palpitations on a daily basis. I would recommend that you go see a cardiologist. That is what i did and they put me on Bystolic 5mg ed, its a beta blocker. They also ran a 24 hour ekg because some beats are benign and some very dangerous. They also did a echo to look at the structure of my heart. I have had high blood pressure and skipped beats since i was 19 now 26, genetics plays a huge roll. Good luck with everything, but defiantly get it checked out by a cardiologist not just your gp.

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[pdaddyII]

I also get palpitations on a daily basis. I would recommend that you go see a cardiologist. That is what i did and they put me on Bystolic 5mg ed, its a beta blocker. They also ran a 24 hour ekg because some beats are benign and some very dangerous. They also did a echo to look at the structure of my heart. I have had high blood pressure and skipped beats since i was 19 now 26, genetics plays a huge roll. Good luck with everything, but defiantly get it checked out by a cardiologist not just your gp.

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Could be just PVC (premature ventricular contractions) which are pretty harmless or could be an arrhythmia (skipped beats). Some arrhythmia's require treatment, some do not. A lot of them can put you at risk for throwing a clot though so regardless I'd have it looked into.

 

[kx250rider]

Thanks for the input... The GP says he can't say anything because it wouldn't do it while I was there, and like an engine noise in a car, it has to HAPPEN in order to be recognized and diagnosed . A quick blood test shows I've never had a hidden heart attack, and my blood oxygen level is 99%. I definitely want to get to the bottom of it, and there isn't any murmur or anything to be heard or seen. The doctor did say that since I just had a bad infection which caused scar tissue in the lungs, it could have also affected the heart lining, and the palpitations are a temporary result of that. I was calling it the Flu or a bad BAD cold which went into pneumonia, but now they say it might be Lyme disease or Tularemia. There is an outbreak of Tularemia in Ventura County, CA, and I've been eaten alive by flies this year. No tick bites, so I doubt the lyme disease, but they're testing anyway. If it's Tularemia, that explains the whole thing, and I just have to wait.

Charles

 

[kx250rider]

UPDATE: Went in yesterday for another EKG.... I'm a little more worried now. The doctor almost suggested that I got to the ER, but he backed down when I promised to go get a cardiologist workup ASAP. My heart is doing an abnormal rhythm called supraventricular extrasystoles. Going to make an urgent appointment Monday morning, and get this looked into further. The doctor wouldn't say much, but I cornered him and asked "Are we talking surgery, or is this going to go toward medication?" He said "NO, no; not surgery... ". My imagination is going all over the place, as far as the future of my being in the sport of lifting, and everything else. My father and my sister both died suddenly of "unexplained heart stoppage" while under general anesthetic, and we believe it's a genetic family allergy to general anesthetics. I've always refused it, and maybe whatever this thing is now with my heart rhythm, will have some answers as to what went on with my father & sister.

Just to clarify; the doctor yesterday reviewed all of my blood test results from the other doctor where I'm on HRT, and he doesn't blame the T-cyp dosage or anything else I'm doing for this problem.

Charles

 

[kx250rider]

Update #2... BP is down a little, and the arrhythmia is less today, but it's only 2:40PM and I'm ready to crash for the night. The doctor made me up my BP pill dose, and I'm feeling it. I guess this is the lesser of the evils, if it's safer for me 'til I get to the root cause of this problem... I guess maybe the arrhythmia IS partly due to high BP? I didn't agree with that theory earlier.

Charles

 

[Donnie Darko]

Jeez, I hope everything is going better for you.