Serious Pounding Heart

Few weeks ago, my husband started to complain about he has pounding heart. He keeps telling me that he feels it as serious pounding, as it is thumping against his chest. He told me he feels and lots of sharp twinges same area. I was thinking it could be serious so I went to the doctor with him. He performed ECG, but all seems fine, so I would like to hear if anyone experienced anything like this.

I can tell you that sometimes a person who is under stress can be more aware of a pounding heart. Lack of sleep goes hand in hand with this as product of extra stress in one’s life. A pounding heart is part of the fight of flight scenario, which was built into us since the earliest of humans. You may perceive this thinking as someone is a cave man, so when dangerous animal runs at him, he would feel stressed. That means he fights or flights switches would tell him to run. Nowadays we are still programmed with the same instinct but do not have to use our fight and flight in the same way. Therefore, when we are stressed we tend to try to sit through it since we see no immediate danger. I might suggest you to help your husband get rid of aggression, play some game. I can tell you this because my heart would pound so hard at night before. I became afraid to go out in public because I was afraid I might have an attack. Then I visited doctor and he gave me some pills, I feel much better, what I could recommend to your husband too.

vanderlinden wrote:

Few weeks ago, my husband started to complain about he has pounding heart. He keeps telling me that he feels it as serious pounding, as it is thumping against his chest. He told me he feels and lots of sharp twinges same area. I was thinking it could be serious so I went to the doctor with him. He performed ECG, but all seems fine, so I would like to hear if anyone experienced anything like this.

A few days ago I had much the same happen to me as well. I ended up in the hospital as I thought this is it...the big one...HEART ATTACK..! It turns out that I am just fine they did a 12 lead EKG and other stuff as well and it seem that my anxity attacks had just stepped up to higher level. I have had 3 more heart attack feeling attacks since...but I do not feel stressed...well not that much at least. I am now on some pills to calm me down and for the first time in I can not remember how long. I have slept for more then just 6 hours. Since I was put on some chill pills I have not had one of those heart attack feelings.

vanderlinden wrote:

Few weeks ago, my husband started to complain about he has pounding heart. He keeps telling me that he feels it as serious pounding, as it is thumping against his chest. He told me he feels and lots of sharp twinges same area. I was thinking it could be serious so I went to the doctor with him. He performed ECG, but all seems fine, so I would like to hear if anyone experienced anything like this.

Hi my name is Denise. Im 21 weeks pregnant and was scared to death earlier when my heart started racing till the point my chest started shaking alittle and i was freaked out. I felt like i was getting tired real fast and kinda like i was gonna pass out. It lasted id say about 15 minates or so and then it stopped but i was still very weak after it stopped. My mom said she had it happen to her too but not while she was pregnant so i dont know if its something some people get once in awhile or if it means something bad. Im scared so if anyone one knows what it could be? I was just at the doctors yesterday and everything seems to be going good in my pregnancy and he seems to be a very healthy baby boy. I am a non-smoker as well as drugs. Im just scared and wanna make sure its nothing to serious. If anyone has the answer??? ..plzzz let me know. Im very worried. thanks. Denise

hi I had heart palpations that started during my pregnancy 13 yrs ago and im still doing great lol, I still have them on a regular basis and my docter tells me to manage my stress better dont drink caffiene, or eat alot of chocolate or sugar. Yoga helps me alot and if i dont have time for that i just do slow deep breathing and u will be amazed how that helps. if ur heart starts racing real fast the best thing i do is hold my breath and bear down like im having a baby for about 10 second and after a few times it will slow right down its called a vegal response if that doesnt work take a ice pack and put it on your fore head until you get that ice headace and that also caused a vegal response. this is what the cardiologist said. he also said it is not dangerous but u should still talk to your dr about it to reassure yourself. best of luck with the new baby

Don't be too alarmed bud. Are you under stress? Anxious? Tense? This is called a panic attack and it can strike at any given minute. I had this about a year ago and I thought I was going to die. My arm tingled and felt like it was tightening. My body went numb and I fel to the ground. I thought I had a heart attack.. EKG came back normal and blood tests as well. The once on the beach I was enjoying myself and sure enough, my heart and vision started up again and I just got up , took a walk and totally took my mind off it. Next thing you know, it all stopped. Panic attacks suck and they can scare the hell out of you! I am not at all trying to diagnose you but everything you are saying sounds just like what I had. Unless you smoke too much, take too much nicotine patch, do cocaine or anything else that can speed up your heart rate, you sound like your just having panic attacks. Good luck bud!

When I was about 16 I started getting these same episodes. It usually started when I stood up or did something suddenly. Then my heart would pound up to 200 bpm and it scared me to death! My parents took me to the doctor and after several tests it was determined that I probably had just gotten some kind of virus that went to my heart. The doctor put me on some medicine and I was to avoid caffeine and any medicine that increased heart rates like decongestants. This went on until I was about 20 and the doctor took me off the medicine because the attacks had almost vanished. I am 31 now and have had only 1 attack in the last 3 years. I know exactly what to look for now and how to stop it (usually by laying down for a few minutes it will go away). The doctor said that this virus messes with your electrical impulses in the heart. All I know is that is scared me terribly, but it has been many years now and I am fine. Hope this helps!