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What To Do If Heart Is Racing And Having Dizziness?

I am 26 years old and about a month ago my heart rate speed up for alomst 3 minutes with out stopping. I got dizzy since then I have been having little ones that do not last that long nor do they hurt as bad. I also shake all the time I dont know of this is from this or not.
Thu, 11 Aug 2016
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Hello!

Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!

Regarding your concern, I would explain that it is important performing a comprehensive differential diagnosis of different causes that may lead to this clinical scenario:

- anxiety or a panic disorder
- thyroid gland dysfunction
- chronic anemia
- temporal lobe epilepsy.

For this reason, I recommend consulting with your attending physician and performing some tests:

- thyroid hormone levels
- an ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoring in order to examine your heart rhythm trends through the day and exclude possible cardiac arrhythmia
- complete blood count for anemia
- blood electrolytes
- fasting glucose

An EEG may be needed if all the above tests result normal.

Hope you will find this answer helpful!

Kind regards,

Dr. Iliri

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What To Do If Heart Is Racing And Having Dizziness?

Hello! Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM! Regarding your concern, I would explain that it is important performing a comprehensive differential diagnosis of different causes that may lead to this clinical scenario: - anxiety or a panic disorder - thyroid gland dysfunction - chronic anemia - temporal lobe epilepsy. For this reason, I recommend consulting with your attending physician and performing some tests: - thyroid hormone levels - an ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoring in order to examine your heart rhythm trends through the day and exclude possible cardiac arrhythmia - complete blood count for anemia - blood electrolytes - fasting glucose An EEG may be needed if all the above tests result normal. Hope you will find this answer helpful! Kind regards, Dr. Iliri