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heart problems getting worse. please help!
I noticed symptoms starting to appear about 4 months ago and it seems like they are getting worse very quickly.
Atleast 4 times a weak i get very bad headaches, with my head pulsing, vertigo, ringing in the ears, extreme sensitivity to noise, and i can even see the pulsing in my vision where every pulse appears as a quick blurriness or sometimes a pulse of faded vision.
But my vision is always kind of faded now. i see black dots in my vision like you do when you do not eat or drink enough water. i feel very lightheaded and sometimes if i even sit up i feel as if im going to pass out.
ever since this started my heart has been beating hard (not meaning fast). and i often have extreme discomfort in my chest with beats at random feeling like its struggling to get bloodflow or possibly skipping a beat.
A few days ago i woke up with a headache (as i have been lately every morning), but with my heart beating very hard, my head was pulsing even harder now that my heart was beating harder. i could now feel the pulse through my whole body and every beat was making my body shake.
My mom took me to the emergency room but all they did was give me migraine medicine, which helped only my headache, not the pulsing in my head.
By the time i left the ER my heart was still beating very hard, maybe even harder (this was not the first time i had experienced a hard heartbeat as i do often and more frequently but was the worst ever). While leaving my vision was extremely poor and sensitive to light and my ears were ringing with sensitivity to noise.
About two minutes after getting in the car and on the way home i lost my vision and hearing completely. my face went numb, and i had the most extreme discomfort in my chest i had ever felt. I was very cold and when i felt my face, it felt as if i had been in a freezer it was so cold. My vision and hearing slowly came back after several minutes, my heart continued beating very hard though. My vision was very fuzzy and my ears were sensitive and ringing.
My heart didnt stop beating hard all day as i was just laying down, every beat was still shaking my whole body and i could feel the pulse in my face, my parents felt my face and they said they could feel it too. Also while laying down i realized i was arching my back while laying down, like it was tightening up. i didnt think much of it but it was uncomfortable so i tried to lay on my side most of the time.
That evening i felt like everything was getting worse so i went to a different hospital again.
Once checking into the ER i was so weak and dizzy i could not walk. I still could not stop arching my back and once i layed down in the hospital bed i realized my chest was very tight like i had been working out the day before, my legs started to tighten as well. This got very extreme fast (first time i had experienced this). I could not stop flexing my whole body, it hurt so bad i was screaming. The nurse injected me with valium and it helped for a little while but the 'cramping' soon came back and this happened about 2 or three more times where they had to keep giving me more.
The whole 7 hours i was there none of my other symptoms had gone away.
Doctors do not know what is going on, it seems like they have given up. Yesterday took a four hour drive to see a neurologist but he was no help.
I noticed symptoms at first about 4 months ago but they were no where close to how bad they are now. I found myself having to stay home alot during the summer becuase of this and now it is so bad that i cannot go to school.
The headaches i get are the worst headaches i have ever experienced, i have been prescribed vicodin and sumatriptan which don't always make them go away enough to not be excruciating. They can last anywhere from a few hours to days and with them it is very hard to sleep.
About a week ago i thought i was feeling well enough to finally go longboarding with my friend. This did not go well at all, I found myself walking most of the time becuase with the activity, my heart was just beating too hard and i had the discomfortable 'struggling' feeling. I tried ignore it at first but as they kept getting worse i had to stop.
Also i have always had a very bad back, i get soreness throughout my whole back and its the worst in my neck and upper back. In my neck i get craming, stiffness, aches, and soreness.
Atleast 4 times a weak i get very bad headaches, with my head pulsing, vertigo, ringing in the ears, extreme sensitivity to noise, and i can even see the pulsing in my vision where every pulse appears as a quick blurriness or sometimes a pulse of faded vision.
But my vision is always kind of faded now. i see black dots in my vision like you do when you do not eat or drink enough water. i feel very lightheaded and sometimes if i even sit up i feel as if im going to pass out.
ever since this started my heart has been beating hard (not meaning fast). and i often have extreme discomfort in my chest with beats at random feeling like its struggling to get bloodflow or possibly skipping a beat.
A few days ago i woke up with a headache (as i have been lately every morning), but with my heart beating very hard, my head was pulsing even harder now that my heart was beating harder. i could now feel the pulse through my whole body and every beat was making my body shake.
My mom took me to the emergency room but all they did was give me migraine medicine, which helped only my headache, not the pulsing in my head.
By the time i left the ER my heart was still beating very hard, maybe even harder (this was not the first time i had experienced a hard heartbeat as i do often and more frequently but was the worst ever). While leaving my vision was extremely poor and sensitive to light and my ears were ringing with sensitivity to noise.
About two minutes after getting in the car and on the way home i lost my vision and hearing completely. my face went numb, and i had the most extreme discomfort in my chest i had ever felt. I was very cold and when i felt my face, it felt as if i had been in a freezer it was so cold. My vision and hearing slowly came back after several minutes, my heart continued beating very hard though. My vision was very fuzzy and my ears were sensitive and ringing.
My heart didnt stop beating hard all day as i was just laying down, every beat was still shaking my whole body and i could feel the pulse in my face, my parents felt my face and they said they could feel it too. Also while laying down i realized i was arching my back while laying down, like it was tightening up. i didnt think much of it but it was uncomfortable so i tried to lay on my side most of the time.
That evening i felt like everything was getting worse so i went to a different hospital again.
Once checking into the ER i was so weak and dizzy i could not walk. I still could not stop arching my back and once i layed down in the hospital bed i realized my chest was very tight like i had been working out the day before, my legs started to tighten as well. This got very extreme fast (first time i had experienced this). I could not stop flexing my whole body, it hurt so bad i was screaming. The nurse injected me with valium and it helped for a little while but the 'cramping' soon came back and this happened about 2 or three more times where they had to keep giving me more.
The whole 7 hours i was there none of my other symptoms had gone away.
Doctors do not know what is going on, it seems like they have given up. Yesterday took a four hour drive to see a neurologist but he was no help.
I noticed symptoms at first about 4 months ago but they were no where close to how bad they are now. I found myself having to stay home alot during the summer becuase of this and now it is so bad that i cannot go to school.
The headaches i get are the worst headaches i have ever experienced, i have been prescribed vicodin and sumatriptan which don't always make them go away enough to not be excruciating. They can last anywhere from a few hours to days and with them it is very hard to sleep.
About a week ago i thought i was feeling well enough to finally go longboarding with my friend. This did not go well at all, I found myself walking most of the time becuase with the activity, my heart was just beating too hard and i had the discomfortable 'struggling' feeling. I tried ignore it at first but as they kept getting worse i had to stop.
Also i have always had a very bad back, i get soreness throughout my whole back and its the worst in my neck and upper back. In my neck i get craming, stiffness, aches, and soreness.
Let us start with what you can do. Do this pranayam twice daily for 30 minutes, and let me know how you feel after 21 days.When you are better, continue the pranayam for 20 minutes daily.
Build up your timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume after one minute.
Anulom Vilom pranayam–
Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril
then – close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril
then -keeping the left nostril closed deep breath-in through right nostril
then - close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril.
This is one cycle of anulom vilom.
Repeat this cycle for 15 to 30 minutes twice a day.
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed.
Build up your timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume after one minute.
Anulom Vilom pranayam–
Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril
then – close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril
then -keeping the left nostril closed deep breath-in through right nostril
then - close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril.
This is one cycle of anulom vilom.
Repeat this cycle for 15 to 30 minutes twice a day.
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed.
Yeah when i started noticing symptoms my life was pretty much easier than ever, i had great grades, i skateboarded everyday with my friends and everything was going great.
Ofcourse im not closing that door, i make sure to keep all possabilitys in mind. And i also think that is very true that sometimes we do not recognize issues within ourselfs.
But i honestly do not think this is stress related for many reasons.
Thank you for your help!
Ofcourse im not closing that door, i make sure to keep all possabilitys in mind. And i also think that is very true that sometimes we do not recognize issues within ourselfs.
But i honestly do not think this is stress related for many reasons.
Thank you for your help!
COMMUNITY LEADER
Sounds like you've give some time to self analysis, and while that is good and can lead to answers, we sometimes don't recognize "issues" within ourselves. Yes, I mean me too.
15 is a great age, too long ago for me to remember much about being, and I'm sure being 15 in the 1950s is a lot different than today. Still I can remember I had a lot of views and opinions that differ in many respects from what I believe today, about myself and about others. This doesn't really go anywhere, but I type to respond the best I can, being an old guy, to try to relate, help, and bring out more thinking that might help.
Again, wishing you well.
15 is a great age, too long ago for me to remember much about being, and I'm sure being 15 in the 1950s is a lot different than today. Still I can remember I had a lot of views and opinions that differ in many respects from what I believe today, about myself and about others. This doesn't really go anywhere, but I type to respond the best I can, being an old guy, to try to relate, help, and bring out more thinking that might help.
Again, wishing you well.
i can also tell the difference from when i am nervous and worried other than having these symptoms. they are very different.
i know they sound like panic attacks but i can say they are not without a doubt panic attacks.
yes i have considered many times anxiety but this cannot be anxiety.
i am not stressed, i am not anxious, and ive never found myself in a panic.
yes i have considered many times anxiety but this cannot be anxiety.
i am not stressed, i am not anxious, and ive never found myself in a panic.
Your symptoms sound severe, but with symptoms this extreme, the ER doctors undoubtedly did some workup on you, like bloodwork and an EKG, and they would not have released you without a diagnosis. There was one. What was it? You can ask your mother if the results were not given to you or if you were too agitated to understand it.
You say you saw a neurologist, but he was no help. He must have said something to you, but which you did not find helpful. What did he say?
I am not a doctor, but I have taken and worked in college courses in human physiology, and I can tell you that many of your symptoms are associated not only with panic attacks but also with hyperventilation (a common feature of anxiety attacks), which temporarily screws up your blood chemistry and can produce the damnedest symptoms, like hearing and sight disturbances, sensations of coldness in the extremities--to say nothing of muscle cramps (which you obviously had)--and a pounding heartbeat. Interestingly, what's called 'hyperventilation syndrome' can last hours and seems to affect young people more than those who are older.
I would suggest you go to your regular family doctor and discuss this with him/her. If there is no suggestion of heart disease--and there probably will not be, due to your youth and the fact that you were released from the ER--the next step for severe anxiety is to get a referral to psychiatrist to learn how to get relief from your symptoms.
You can also check into the anxiety forum here at medhelp:
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Anxiety/show/71
You say you saw a neurologist, but he was no help. He must have said something to you, but which you did not find helpful. What did he say?
I am not a doctor, but I have taken and worked in college courses in human physiology, and I can tell you that many of your symptoms are associated not only with panic attacks but also with hyperventilation (a common feature of anxiety attacks), which temporarily screws up your blood chemistry and can produce the damnedest symptoms, like hearing and sight disturbances, sensations of coldness in the extremities--to say nothing of muscle cramps (which you obviously had)--and a pounding heartbeat. Interestingly, what's called 'hyperventilation syndrome' can last hours and seems to affect young people more than those who are older.
I would suggest you go to your regular family doctor and discuss this with him/her. If there is no suggestion of heart disease--and there probably will not be, due to your youth and the fact that you were released from the ER--the next step for severe anxiety is to get a referral to psychiatrist to learn how to get relief from your symptoms.
You can also check into the anxiety forum here at medhelp:
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Anxiety/show/71
COMMUNITY LEADER
Very difficult story.. even hard to follow all the complicated symptoms.
If I read correctly you had the symptoms while being examined by the ER and other doctors, correct? The doctors had before the them actual symptoms you are troubled by and couldn't conclude anything?
Your story sound serious, but we are all "stuck" with the state of medical science. Given you have had the benefit of hands-on medical attention, there is nothing I can think of that would help.
You haven't disclosed your age, but you did say "My mom took me to the emergency room..." which would make the conclusion that you are a "school aged" person. If true, I'd ask that you think about your life and relationship with your peers and see if here is anything there that might cause you to have troubling symptoms. Anxiety and other emotional problems can cause serious physical symptoms. Just a suggestion, I have nothing to say that is what is troubling you.
I wish you a speedy resolution,
If I read correctly you had the symptoms while being examined by the ER and other doctors, correct? The doctors had before the them actual symptoms you are troubled by and couldn't conclude anything?
Your story sound serious, but we are all "stuck" with the state of medical science. Given you have had the benefit of hands-on medical attention, there is nothing I can think of that would help.
You haven't disclosed your age, but you did say "My mom took me to the emergency room..." which would make the conclusion that you are a "school aged" person. If true, I'd ask that you think about your life and relationship with your peers and see if here is anything there that might cause you to have troubling symptoms. Anxiety and other emotional problems can cause serious physical symptoms. Just a suggestion, I have nothing to say that is what is troubling you.
I wish you a speedy resolution,
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