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What Causes Rapid Heart Rate With Palpitations?

Hi. I am a 31 years old female with 2 kids (4 year & 1 year old) With my first pregnancy my gynecologist had difficulty taking my blood presure due to the fact that he said my heart skip beats. I went for a check up and they diognosed me with Barlow syndrome. Everything went well and I started getting rapid heartrates ones every 3-4 months. With my second pregnancy when I was about 7 months pregnant I started getting rapid heart beats once to twice a day, short breaths as well as feeling dizzy. I went to the cadioligist and while they do a ECG and heat sonar my heart beat was 220 bpm. I was diognosed with RVOT They admitted me to Cardio ICU and put my on beta blockers for the rest of my pregnancy. 2 months after my baby was born I had to go for a ablation. Unfortunatly it was unsuccessfull as after 2 hours in theater and they pumped me full of adrenaline they could not find the impulse causing my condition. It a year later and I can only recall having it 3 - 4 times. However, last week I helped my husband moving a relatively heavy peace of furniture and about 5 -10 min later I felt my heart racing again. I counted it and counted 210 bpm and I felt dizzy for quite a while. I could see/feel my heart pounding. Luckaly it did not last a long time. 3-4 Days later I went to my excersise clas and we did a lot of excersise using own body wait. I started having dizzyness intervals that lasted about 30 seconds (did not bother me alot), but when I got home and started went to bed, I could feel my heart beat and it felled the if my heard was beating so hard the bed was "shaking", even my dog which was lying next to me looked at my chest all funny. I was wondering. Could it be due to me carrying heavy things causing my rapid heart beat? Is that why I got it so late in my pregnancies as the babies are quite big in that time and you carry "heavy" (lots of extra weight? And getting it for carrying my 2 - 3 year old then due to her weight? Might sound silly, but am wondering and what it could be and is there something I can do to help me with it?
Mon, 18 Sep 2017
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hello, thanks for sharing you problem here.
First let me tell you that RVOT VT is a benign condition (I presume that your echo is normal!). That means, it's not life threatening.
But as you said you are again having it frequently, then obviously you need to take treatment.
Regarding treatment, you must take beta blockers and consider redo EPS and radio frequency ablation.
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What Causes Rapid Heart Rate With Palpitations?

hello, thanks for sharing you problem here. First let me tell you that RVOT VT is a benign condition (I presume that your echo is normal!). That means, it s not life threatening. But as you said you are again having it frequently, then obviously you need to take treatment. Regarding treatment, you must take beta blockers and consider redo EPS and radio frequency ablation.