Hiatus Hernia and Palpitations

First, research sliding HH so that you understand exactly what it is, you will see on a diagram that it's very close to the bottom left side oh your heart - very close! These are the things I do to try to keep on top of my symptoms :

Pelvic thrusts - you can look all these up on youtube.

A pilates move called the triangle

Diaphragm strengthening breathing exercises

Using a chin-up bar or similar, hang by your right arm and let your body stretch, the hernia is situated just to the left of the place where your ribs join at your solar plexus and this can allow it to relax.

Look for 'self treatment for sliding HH' where you lie on your back and push your fingers under your ribcage and then down, pushing the hernia back down through the diaphragm.

Using 2 small dumbells, stand upriht arm keeping your arms straight, raise them up level with your shoulds, hold for a few seconds, then lower. This opens up your diaphragm and can help the hernia to slide back down - also keeps your shoulders in good condition.

Bloating appears to have a direct effect on my blood pressure and the amount of palpitations I get, you will need to know what things to avoid, once you've spent a day without bloating and palpitations you'll want to do it more! When I'm not bloated I don't get dizziness or palpitations when I stand up or bend forward.

Get your weight correct, being overweight amplifies this condition dramatically!

Hope this helps, best wishes all.

 

Yes is very frustrating and it is worth going to a cardiologist for them to tell you, that you are crazy and there is nothing wrong with your heart so you can begin treatment for your hiatal hernia so you do not eventually get esophageal cancer. I am very cynical about this but I suffered from heart palpitations for about 2 years and it happened when I ate or shortly after. I kept telling the doctors this and they thought I was being a nervous woman and the two symptoms of heart palps and indigestion were not related. I went through heart monitors, emergency visits, ultrasounds, xrays, and cardiologists wanting to give me tranquilizers. I was so angry.I finally went to a gastroenterologist who did a scope and found a hiatal hernia. He gave me aciphex and within a week the palps stopped. I did an experiment and stopped the achiphex and ate a heavy meal. Bingo... palps came back with a fury.  So, I spoke to the gastro about this, he said, there are nerves that line the esophagus. When the esophagus lining is irritated like from acid reflux, inflammation irritates the esophageal nerves. "It is often difficult to distinguish between cardiac and esophageal causes of chest pain based upon symptom presentation alone because the nerves that supply the heart also supply the esophagus".http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038318/

Take this peer reviewed article to the doctor calling you crazy. Here it is in a medical journal.  Anyway, I took my achiphex and also reduced the amount of food I was eating, stayed away from thick sauces, gravys, bread and heavy foods and those with tomato sauces. I stopped eating around 4pm.  This helped and my palpatations never returned. Make sure you really do not have a heart condition, but stop going to any doctor who says heart palps and gerd symptoms, hiatal hernia are never related.

Hi everyone, 7 years ago i was diagnosed with a sliding HH and associated GERD. I had a nissen wrap done and a repair on the hernia. All great until the following year even out jogging i felt it all come apart. Severe shoulder tip pain and almost instant reflux. Back to the surgeon, different one, he tested for everything and essentially the whole lot had come undone. So he re-wrapped and also repaired the HH, this time using mesh. Then last year, 4 years after the repeat surgery i was putting the 1yr old to bed and i was being and twisting at the same time. I felt a really bad/sharp pain in my sternum. I ended up in hospital the next day being tested for a heart attack. Nothing came up in the bloods so i was sent on my way. The pain subsided so i didn't worry. Then two days after the birth of my second child i came down with the flu. The hospital ordered a chat xray where it shouted that i had a moderate HH again. As i had been asymptomatic i wasn't concerned. HowHowever recently I've been short of breath laying down, it's worse when laying on my left and after a bout of food poisoning I've started to get chest pain in the lower left side. I'm assuming it's all related to my HH. No reflux this time but not sure about the pain. It feels like something is jarred there.

Any advice? The gp got me to make an appt with the surgeon whole he chases up the xrays.

I'm torn between assuming it's the HH and stressing it's something heart related but I'm mildly pleased that the fact that it's been going on for the better part of a week now means it isn't too serious.

Or is this being a bit simplistic. Any advice welcome.

I also gave a hiatus Hernia with some of the same symptoms that you have palpatations ,chest pain I also get a beating in my ear I don't know if this is the result of the hernia or something else These conditions make me very depressed I don't know wherectontyrn for help I live in NJ

anyone here ever experience a pain in the ear as well? or have a concave or dented chest?

I'm having almost the exact same symptoms as the topic creator...my blood pressure just shot up again and is staying just under 150/100, even though I am already on blood pressure meds because it shot up unexpectedly before too. I've got a fullness or lump in my throat that the doctors cant feel from the outside, and I did a barium swallow but they said I didn't have a hiatal hernia.

I use CPAP and it has been forcing air into my stomach and it also causes air to get trapped in my esophagus where I have to forcibly burp it out. I have to wonder if this forcing air into my stomach and esophagus hasn't caused a hiatal hernia, but because of the negative barium swallow a few months ago I doubt they will consider hiatal hernia.

I really don't know what to do...they just put me on a different blood pressure med but don't seem concerned what might be causing it. I'm only 29 years old. I've been obese most of my life, currently 5'10" 270lbs, but I have been lifting weights for the past couple months and feel like I have lost some fat and replaced it with heavier muscle.

I haven't been sleeping well for the past several weeks due to the CPAP situation, and am constantly tired. I just don't know what to do or say to my doctors to get them to consider this. I've had reflux too for several years and am on 60mg of Dexilant, which I understand is about the strongest reflux med you can be on, yet I still get frequent hiccups and reflux. I wanted to see about getting fundoplication done to help with the reflux, but the surgeon said he wouldn't do it because the EGD I had showed no signs of acid erosion (uh, probably because I'm on super strong reflux meds?).

What should I tell them or ask for to get them to do something? I was right before about my gallbladder; I had severe pain in my right flank so they did a gallbladder ultrasound and didn't find anything, but I knew something was wrong so I asked them to do a hitascan and sure enough my gallbladder was at 0% function and needed removed. I KNOW that there is something wrong here too since I've been getting pain a little to the left of the bottom of my sternum for a couple days now, right between my stomach and heart. Maybe I should just keep pushing myself at the gym and try to get something severe to happen so they can finally see it.