tachycardia

[juliep61]

I have been experiencing mild tachycardia after meals.  Could I have unknown food allergies causing this?  It is a horrible feeling - the racing and it takes several hours for it to slow back to normal rate.  It even happens if I have a drink - just one because I don't drink much at all so on the occasion - like Thanksgiving Holiday dinner I had a half glass of white wine and it raced but then after the  meal - not a big meal we are talking one slice of turkey and some stuffing and salad my heart was about to jump out of my chest...this then leads to anxiety and the situation escalates...this is not a way to live!  Doctors have fround nothing wrong with me to date.

[FurballsMom]

I think your intuition could be right.  I get something like this if I eat anything with sulfites in it.  I discovered this by accident when exploring cooking with wine.  It made me very sick.  Garlic and onions are natural sulfites, too.  I am allergic to alcohol, too, but cooking evaporates the alcohol.  It was clearly the sulfites.

Check out some information about the basic food elimination diet online.  You can go through this long process to find out what you're sensitive or allergic to.

I've had this sensation you were describing with similar foods.  It did turn out to be food sensitivities and allergies.  Since eliminating gluten and lactose and the things I'm most sensitive to, I haven't had this awful sensation that turned out to be GERD and even gastritis or duadinamitis.

Now, I CAN eat the turkey, because the problems were mostly the sulfites, gluten and lactose.  Those things were bothering both my GERD and my IBS.

I've had those cardio tests.  They were normal.  Once I took care of the food issues and digestive issues, I didn't have the heart palpitations anymore.

[S_Sen]

I have benefited from reading the posts here. I have had sudden and unexplained attacks of tachycardia. They used to happen when I was in my 20s and was a heavy smoker and worked all nights. But now at 55 when I don't smoke, hardly drink etc it has started I am not sure of. I also have developed inability to handle milk and milk products, gluten, coffee, etc. I have high BP (as high as 170/110) and am on BP meds which sometimes hardly work. I am wondering whether the source of my problems is due to chronic dehydration. Apparently, you need 1/2 your body weight in ounces on a daily basis for proper hydration. If this is right, dehydration may be more chronic than we think (http://www.waterbenefitshealth.com/symptoms-of-chronic-dehydration.html)

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Thanks for the post!
We have a similar discussion on MedHelp which you can follow: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/cardio/messages/35109.html

A more detailed discussion is available at: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/cardio/messages/31244.html

Please go through the points covered in these discussions on our forum.
Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!