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What Can Be The Reason For Fast Heart Beat?
I woke up last night with my heart racing. I was breathing slowly to calm my heart, but it kepts pumping extremely quickly. My depth perception is off and earlier my vision was blurry. I was shaking through all of this. Dad says it's an anxiety attack.
Wed, 18 Jan 2017
Hello,
This can be anxiety attack but will not woke you up from the sleep, I am keeping it lower down. This can be arrhythmia like psvt or atrial fibrillation, where your heart rate suddenly goes up and bp falls. These are episodic tachycardia and your ecg may be normal if you are not having tachycardia during ecg.
You will need evaluation like thyroid test and holter monitoring. You should also get one hemoglobin levels done. So visit nearby cardiologist for these investigation. Also, to abort such episodes you should try to cough hard. Is there any stress or anxiety associated. Till the time your evaluation is complete, you can ask your local doctor for tab ciplar LA 20 mg once a day.
If none of the above is successful then last option is of electrophysiological studies which is invasive test which can diagnose and treat the arrhythmia permanently in most of the cases.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Sagar Makode
This can be anxiety attack but will not woke you up from the sleep, I am keeping it lower down. This can be arrhythmia like psvt or atrial fibrillation, where your heart rate suddenly goes up and bp falls. These are episodic tachycardia and your ecg may be normal if you are not having tachycardia during ecg.
You will need evaluation like thyroid test and holter monitoring. You should also get one hemoglobin levels done. So visit nearby cardiologist for these investigation. Also, to abort such episodes you should try to cough hard. Is there any stress or anxiety associated. Till the time your evaluation is complete, you can ask your local doctor for tab ciplar LA 20 mg once a day.
If none of the above is successful then last option is of electrophysiological studies which is invasive test which can diagnose and treat the arrhythmia permanently in most of the cases.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Sagar Makode
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