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What Causes Heart Palpitations?
Question: what is it call when you can feel your heart beat and is it bad thing
Brief Answer:
I would recommend as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for asking on HCM!
Regarding your concern, I would explain that this feeling is called palpitations and could be related to different possible causes : a higher heart rate or tachycardia, a metabolic disorder like thyroid dysfunction or anemia, or a cardiac arrhythmia.
Anxiety and physical activity can lead to this clinical situation, by increasing the levels of circulating adrenaline.
So, you can see that it does not always indicate a medical disorder. There is no reason to worry too much!
I recommend you to measure your heart rate and blood pressure values.
If this situation repeats or persists, I recommend consulting with your attending physician and performing some tests:
- a resting ECG and cardiac ultrasound
- an ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoring to examine your heart rhythm for a prolonged time and investigate for cardiac arrhythmia
- complete blood count for anemia
- thyroid hormone levels for thyroid dysfunction
- blood electrolytes for possible imbalance.
If all the tests result normal, you should consider anxiety as the main cause of your complaints.
Hope you will find this answer helpful!
Wishing good health,
Dr. Iliri
I would recommend as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for asking on HCM!
Regarding your concern, I would explain that this feeling is called palpitations and could be related to different possible causes : a higher heart rate or tachycardia, a metabolic disorder like thyroid dysfunction or anemia, or a cardiac arrhythmia.
Anxiety and physical activity can lead to this clinical situation, by increasing the levels of circulating adrenaline.
So, you can see that it does not always indicate a medical disorder. There is no reason to worry too much!
I recommend you to measure your heart rate and blood pressure values.
If this situation repeats or persists, I recommend consulting with your attending physician and performing some tests:
- a resting ECG and cardiac ultrasound
- an ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoring to examine your heart rhythm for a prolonged time and investigate for cardiac arrhythmia
- complete blood count for anemia
- thyroid hormone levels for thyroid dysfunction
- blood electrolytes for possible imbalance.
If all the tests result normal, you should consider anxiety as the main cause of your complaints.
Hope you will find this answer helpful!
Wishing good health,
Dr. Iliri
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