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Vibrating Sensation In Heart Followed By Palpitation, Chestpain, Shortness Of Breath. Having Extra Heartbeats. Suggestions?

Hi, my heart makes this buzzing/ virbrating sensation all the time, sometimes followed by a palpitation , chest pain and shortness of breath. I suffer from anxiety real badly but this occurs even when I m not anxious, the feeling actually makes my anxiety worse. The shortness of breath can get so bad that I have to use my husbands inhaler . My cardiologist has done a stress echo, ekg, and holter monitor . He said everything came back normal except my heart beats extra beats or something to that sort. He said it won t cause futher probelms and assures me that I won t get heart disease. But still this feeling scares cause I get it all the time literally
Mon, 25 Feb 2013
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Hi,
Thanks for posting your query.
With the available described symptoms, there appears to be possibility of Symptomatic extra beats which needs treatment.
All other investigations are normal as you have mentioned while presence of vibrating feeling, breathlessness, and anxiety suggests treatment for symptomatic extra beats.
Extra beats may be physiological (fever, use of coffee, tea and chocolates, exercise etc.) or due to heart disease.
As you have normal stress test there appears to be least chance of heart disease induced extra beats.
Yet you should take beta blockers or calcium channel blockers on written prescription as these are symptomatic.
You should also take benzodiazepines for relaxing your anxiety.
Take care,
Dr. Mayank Bhargava
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Vibrating Sensation In Heart Followed By Palpitation, Chestpain, Shortness Of Breath. Having Extra Heartbeats. Suggestions?

Hi, Thanks for posting your query. With the available described symptoms, there appears to be possibility of Symptomatic extra beats which needs treatment. All other investigations are normal as you have mentioned while presence of vibrating feeling, breathlessness, and anxiety suggests treatment for symptomatic extra beats. Extra beats may be physiological (fever, use of coffee, tea and chocolates, exercise etc.) or due to heart disease. As you have normal stress test there appears to be least chance of heart disease induced extra beats. Yet you should take beta blockers or calcium channel blockers on written prescription as these are symptomatic. You should also take benzodiazepines for relaxing your anxiety. Take care, Dr. Mayank Bhargava