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What Causes Heart Palpitations?

I have been having a racing heart for sometime, I researched the drug Oleptro I was on and a side effect of it was racing heartbeat. My psych doc told me to discontinue the drug and I have and I am on the third day of not taking it and seem to be doing better. I had the urge to stretch earlier and felt my pulse start racing again and indeed it had and took a while to slow down. Any ideas?
Wed, 4 Jan 2017
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Hello and welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service.
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

Increased heart rate can be because of a lot of reasons. It can be simple increase of heart rate because of any stressor or after exercise. If it occurs in resting state, it can be also because of abnormal conduction system of heart called as supraventricular arrhythmia. So you need certain tests to rule out same.

1) ECG at the time of palpitation. If duration of palpitation is small than we put a 24 hr ECG monitoring called as holter monitoring.

2) Thyroid function test

3) 2D Echo

After these test get yourself evaluated from your doctor. Wishing you good health.


Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Sameer Maheshwari
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What Causes Heart Palpitations?

Hello and welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Increased heart rate can be because of a lot of reasons. It can be simple increase of heart rate because of any stressor or after exercise. If it occurs in resting state, it can be also because of abnormal conduction system of heart called as supraventricular arrhythmia. So you need certain tests to rule out same. 1) ECG at the time of palpitation. If duration of palpitation is small than we put a 24 hr ECG monitoring called as holter monitoring. 2) Thyroid function test 3) 2D Echo After these test get yourself evaluated from your doctor. Wishing you good health. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Sameer Maheshwari