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What Causes Frequent Heart Poundings?
40 year old male 230 pounds.Heart pounds and out of breath after walking up stairs. No blood pressure problems. No heart disease. I had recent ekg and nuclear stress test--all normal. My heart does not race nearly as much when I walk up stairs in the mornings or before I eat anything. Always worse after eating and/or later in the day. Not sure of any thyroid disorders or anemia. What could be the possible cause, no doctors seem to know. I do not have any anxiety disorders either.
Mon, 2 May 2016
Hi. The problem may be what's called supraventricular tachycardia--a rapid heart rate from an arrhythmia. I would put you on a Holter monitor--a 24/7 EKG recording--to check for that.
It can be treated with either beta blocker or calcium channel blocker medications
It can be treated with either beta blocker or calcium channel blocker medications
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