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What Could Be The Reason For Feeling Heart Palpitations?

Hi, i'm a 21 year old female and have on a few occasions woken up in the middle of the night with a feeling like my heart is unsteady/palpitating or beating heavily, followed by nausea, shakiness, and feeling chilled. This especially seems to happen after having alcoholic beverages (though not in excess).
Mon, 18 Apr 2016
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Hello and thank you for using HCM.I carefully read your question and I understand your concern.

I will try to explain you something and give you my opinion.

This palpitations has to do with a rhythm issue . There are some electrical impulses that generates from parts of the heart different from normal sinus rhythm.They cause a premature heart contaction that its not a normal one. You feel this like e palpitation, a skipped beat or a fluttering sensation.Also you might experience dizziness, difficulties in breathing deeply, anxiety.

There might be different causes of this rhythm issues from simple emotional stress, coffee or energy drink consumption, alcohol consumption or pathologys like anemia, hyperthyroidism, electrolyte imbalances ect.

If you have noticed this palpitation after alcohol consumption, than it might be the cause.
In this circumstances you can try to avoid it.
If it happens again than I would recommend some examination like a cardiac echo to evaluate heart function and valves, a full blood analyze to exclude anemia, hyperthyroidism or electrolyte imbalance and of course a holter rhythm monitoring to see what are this palpitation and their frequency.

After these we can judge how to deal with them.

Hope I was helpfull.
Best regards, Dr.Ervina.
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What Could Be The Reason For Feeling Heart Palpitations?

Hello and thank you for using HCM.I carefully read your question and I understand your concern. I will try to explain you something and give you my opinion. This palpitations has to do with a rhythm issue . There are some electrical impulses that generates from parts of the heart different from normal sinus rhythm.They cause a premature heart contaction that its not a normal one. You feel this like e palpitation, a skipped beat or a fluttering sensation.Also you might experience dizziness, difficulties in breathing deeply, anxiety. There might be different causes of this rhythm issues from simple emotional stress, coffee or energy drink consumption, alcohol consumption or pathologys like anemia, hyperthyroidism, electrolyte imbalances ect. If you have noticed this palpitation after alcohol consumption, than it might be the cause. In this circumstances you can try to avoid it. If it happens again than I would recommend some examination like a cardiac echo to evaluate heart function and valves, a full blood analyze to exclude anemia, hyperthyroidism or electrolyte imbalance and of course a holter rhythm monitoring to see what are this palpitation and their frequency. After these we can judge how to deal with them. Hope I was helpfull. Best regards, Dr.Ervina.