health flutters, tightness of chest etc
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didn't know where to put this - was going to put it under 'heart' but that isn't really the biggest issue. recently, I've been occasionally feeling heart flutters, it's never more than one flutter at a time and isn't incredibly often. I could have maybe 1 - 3 a day but the scary thing about it, is that I've never, ever, ever had this before, so I'm just curious as to what could bring it on. Currently, I've got a kind of tight chest and a bit of a lump in my throat too, it just feels like a small bit of food that won't go down, but I know it's not because it's just come out of nowhere. It's not sore or anything, just a discomfort and I feel like I have to keep swallowing and my chest feels quite heavy.
I do smoke (not very much though, I try to keep it around 5 a day, sometimes I go a day without) and other than that I lead a very healthy lifestyle.
Could anyone suggest any things this could be? aside from any 'heart attack' etc etc etc - I don't want warnings, just options to consider. I'm going to give up smoking and be as healthy as possible till the doctors, just to see if there is a change. I know that this could also be a really common thing, loads of people have this, but I just want to check it up as it's appeared out of nowhere.
thanks
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This was something I considered though and I have been trying to just watch what I eat to see if anything changes.
I also just want to add in something as I'm writing this exactly as I'm getting these feelings - aside from the occasional heart flutter, the main annoyance is having a tight chest, like I feel that I can't breathe very well or have to take deep breathes, kind of like my throat/chest is numbing. Ocassionally I get pain, sometimes just one light throb somewhere, sometimes on my right hand side for ages and the other night, suddenly really sore pain appeared on about a thumb sized part under my arm. It felt like a bruise, a really sore one and someone was pressing on it. I woke up with the pain still there in the morning.
I will go to the doctors as soon as I can.
Another thing, I have recently been under a lot of stress, some incredibly intense family issues and then I crashed my car last week (more like bumped the side of a small wall but it did write my car off). It wasn't a very bad crash and I wasn't shaken for long. No one was heart and it was quick and not very dramatic. Both of those things didn't phase me for long. I handle stressful situations very well and it rarely plays on my mind. So thats why I don't think it could be anxiety but do you think there is any chance that it played a part?
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