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What's wrong with my hear? Arrythmia or something else...

Hello, I'm 21 years old man and I have serious problems with the rythm of my heart. I have arrhythmia since June.. Actually I don't remember how it started but I had similar problems for 5 years.

Actual problems:
Whenever I eat something my heart shivers and then makes a strong beat! It also happens when I bend somehow, twist, jump, make sadden move or when I sit the way, that I make pressure on my stomach. But sometimes even if I stand. I wouldn't mind if those "skips", "shivers" or how to call it happen from time to time... but I can feel it even 10 times per 30 - 60 minutes. There were days that those "skips" didn't showed up, and I don't know why!
Each morning, after I wake up with empty stomach I feel great, without skips! But 3 days ago I had really bad diarhhea. I woke up at 8 o'clock in the morning and since then the whole days was day with the skips! With empty stomach or not I felt those skips can say  atleast 15 per 30minutes. I took some pills for stomach and ate warm soup, which helped me atleast a bit.

What I feel : Whenever I feel this skip, the feeling comes from middle of my belly, can't say if it's from the area of abdominal aorta or stomach, sometimes I don't feel it at all, but when I do, the feeling comes from there to my heart and then my heart skips. I also feel little pressure in the area of my stomach and have a feeling of "burning" stomach.

PS: I don't do sport ( since 2010 ). I'm not stressed at all and I don't even remember when I was...

History of my previous problems:

When I was 15 I've started to drink a coffee, because every day I had to woke up at 5 am. and take a bus to school. I really like sugar! I eat tons of it ( maybe that will be the problem, but since June Iam trying to eat food without sugar ), so I put enough teaspoons to coffee every time. After a month of this "life style" I run to catch a bus and had really bad feeling. Like going to puke and felt pressure around my whole body. After 25 minutes sitting in the bus I get something like SHOCK. I felt pain in the middle of my belly. If I imagine it, it would be punch from boxer to the place between bell button and solar plexus which led right to my heart which started to BEAT unstoppably! Around 250 bpm! I felt dizzy, cold, my feets were really cold, I was shaking and really really thirsty, but I felt NO PRESSURE in my WHOLE BODY. It was like I felt every single vessel, especially on the neck and belly! After next 20 minutes beating stopped but I stayed thirsty. After trying to make few steps on stairs my head got dizzy so I sit down...
--- I didn't go to the doctor and school that day. Dizzines and stopped after 4l of mineral water.

Automatically I stopped drinking coffe, energy drinks... I hoped that would be the first and the last time, falsly..

Mom tought that it's cuz I grow up really fast and was really slim. Now I have 181cm and 67 kilos, so that time it was like 175cm and 67kilos. ( I keep this weight unintentionally for those years)

One day I 've been eating chocolate, cakes, drink limonades and at 23pm went to bed. I can say I jumped to bed. And then "box hit" again. Parents took my to hospital where they saw me shaking and tried to calm me down. Yea, as always I calmed down. They gave me injection, that well know, which after taking it u have warm feeling behind your ears and you don't know if you **** yourself or not. Then, they send me home.

I promised mom to gain more weight, so I took 2 weeks long "pause" from football and eat and eat...
Guess what? I played football again! But first match I felt really bad. I felt pressure around my body and couldn't breath normally. But this pressure disappeard after the match and didnt come back again...

After 4 months playing fotball it happend again. During my football match I've fallen on my knees with my head on them, then I felt that "box hit" and beating started again! Again same symptoms, I felt no pressure in my body, only felt abdomen and neck aortas "jumping" like crazy, thirsty as hell and shaking, but this time felt less dizzy. I took a shower watching my belly, neck and chest "jumping / bouncing". It stopped after 15 minutes.

I went to hospital. They checked my heart saying "It's a bit thin, but it will grow up after puberty. You grew too fast". Well I tried to play fotball again.

After first run with ball I felt like I had 500kg! I couldn't move at all, I felt pressure around my body, but this one was extreme... Ofcourse I went on bench... So with tears I stopped playing football...

One year of "passive" live doesn't bring me any fast heart beats, but whenever I filled up my stomach and lay on bed I had "skips" - each time! or if I bend over. So till now I lived with avoiding those positions.

When I was 18 I tried to gain some muscles in gym. Guess what? I had any fast heat beats! But there were positions during I knew if I keep going, I will get those beats.

Positions were: Biceps lifting while standing, lifting dumbbells while being bend and 2 others, but dunno how to describe it properly and cant post images...

Here we go! 250bpm again! with same symptoms

For 3 years I didn't went to gym, didn't do sports and fortunatelly didn't get any fast heart beats, but as I menioned at start I have arrhythmia now :(

Thank you for reading this to the end, I'm really desperate after those years and I would like to know if there is human being who came through same thing I'm going right now.

Thank you for any answers

P.S I never had a chest pain... Only pain I always feel is in the belly. I don't smoke and do not drink alcohol.
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Google Roemheld Syndrome. You might find it an interesting read. Bottom line is that poor digestive health can cause heart rythum issues in an otherwise heathy heart. The vast majority of cardiologists will not recognize this and treat the heart problem.
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Google Roemheld Syndrome. You might find it an interesting read. Bottom line is that poor digestive health can cause heart rythum issues in an otherwise heathy heart. The vast majority of cardiologists will not recognize this and treat the heart problem.
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