Heart stops and then starts and I get splinter hemorrhages

[latrophobic]

I'm looking to see if this happens to anyone else. Only constant symptoms I have is my toes and fingers are swollen when I wake up and then it goes away when I get up. No pain. I also notice that I'll feel like my heart stops and then it'll start again when I'm resting. I feel it especially in the side of my throat and my chest. When it does this, I notice I ALWAYS get a splinter hemorrhage in my fingernail.
Anyone else have this happen? I'm normal height/weight and don't smoke or drink.
I have had a tooth abscess for years, but I don't exhibit any symptoms of endocarditis, really.
I am just looking for comparable examples of this. I don't have health insurance so I can't go to a doctor, and I don't know of any free health clinics I can go to. I don't have any income so I can't do a 'sliding fee' scale because I don't have a tax form to show them.
Thanks for any info! :)

[MichelleP_3811]

You do realize if you do not get medicaid or some form of insurance you will get fined?  I understand and appreciate you not wanting to 'freeload' but it is your right as an American to have access health care and get help with it if you can't afford it.  A subsidy for those who don't make a lot and free while we are unemployed.   If you have worked most of your life then odds are you paid into it regardless.  Same with unemployment.  So try not to see it as freeloading but as a way to cover yourself until you get a job with health insurance.  Just think about it.  You will get penalized if  you don't show you had something.

[latrophobic]

The fine (actually a tax as it is enforced by the IRS) is only thrown onto those who make a certain amount of money per year. As it stands, I make way below that threshold, so I dont get the tax applied to me.

[MichelleP_3811]

No one can tell you what is happening online.  You really need a blood test to see if your electrolytes are out of balance.  It is possible you are low in some things like potassium or magnesium and supplements will help but you do need a blood test to rule out major health issues.  As for the stops with the heart if it is a one beat stop it very well may be simple premature beats.  The heart really technically doesn't stop but rather there is a pause due to 2 beats that were close together but we only feel the pause.  But I have not heard of them causing splinter hemorrhages.  Always best to get checked out by a doctor.  If you are not working can you get free health insurance?  If you are in the US you are required to have insurance and if you can't pay you get it for free.  Check your states health and welfare site to see how to apply.  Then you can at least get a blood test to see if there is anything of concern going on and get your heart looked at.  Take care.

[latrophobic]

Thank you for replying as well as your imput, I appreciate it greatly!
I guess I'll try a clinic around here and maybe get a blood test, I'll just pay whatever they charge, I don't want to go on Medicaid because I don't want to 'freeload'. I'm now taking neem leaf powder so maybe that'll clear up whatever is wrong, and hopefully it'll clear up my long term abscess as well (pleeze pleeze pleeze!!!). I do eat well when we can and we drink 'real milk', not store bought stuff, so not sure if it's vitamin deficiencies or not. But, maybe I'll go to some clinic and pay to see what it is, if it gets worse or something. Thank you again for answering! :D