Please please help is this atrial fibrillation?? Scared!!
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Hello!!
I was really really hoping someone could help me understand what's happening? I am a 20 year old female and I have spent the last two nights unable to sleep because of my heart. The beat feels irregular, starting out seemingly racing, slowing if I focus on my breathing but then pounding really hard, and if I stress out too much it builds to something that feels like an awful electric shock, radiating from my chest around my whole body. It is fine in the day or when I am focused on other things, but when I try and go to sleep it is unbearable particularly when I start to get anxious about it.
I had the same thing around the same time last year (it might be to do with the big end of uni celebration weekend??) and it got slowly better over a week or two and then stopped, but a less bad version is sometimes brought on after a big night.
I've spent these nights obsessively searching google for anything that sounds similar, and the closest thing I've found is LAF, although no one seems to mention the electric shock type thing??
Can anyone please help me with any information or advice?? I'm really really scared reading about strokes and blood clots and i don't know when I'll next get to sleep and it's absolutely impossible to get into my doctors
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SarahParahHarah
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Hotrodda SarahParahHarah
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It sounds similar to AF but more like tachycardia brought on by overdoing it and caffeine/ alcohol and a bit of panic mixed in.
The reason I say this is my daughter 27 now has the same symptoms even the electric shock and has been diagnosed as tachycardia. It is very common in girls of your age and has been told she will grow out of it which seems to be the case as she hasn't mentioned it lately. Hers started 5 years ago.
So less partying and more studying lol good luck.
robynfromOz SarahParahHarah
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linda51222 SarahParahHarah
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All I can say is ditto to what Robyn has said never never diagnose yourself using Google. make an app to see your GP or as Robyn says go to A&E when its happening, sounds a bit like panic attacks made worse by what you are reading on Google.
Good luck
L.
buddah SarahParahHarah
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It may well be AF or it may be something else. Dont ever try to diagnose yourself. Dr Google is OK as somewhere to get info or to learn, but when it's your health and especially your heart you should be seeing a Dr.
Your heart is your bodys best friend. Treat it with care.
Okapis SarahParahHarah
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But even if it was very early AF/arrthymia (sp?) theres nothing to worry about.! What youre looking at on this post is a mix of people in different stages of AF over time. In my case 30 years, others have only been just diagnosed...go to your doc!,
afiblady SarahParahHarah
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afib is common but must be treated. it sounds like a combination afib and a panic attack which is reasonable. people have afib for years and do fine. i am 68. but there are very young people who get it and it is hardly ever life threatening. go to ER for a diagnosis when this happens. go ahead and make a regular dr. appt in case the appt comes before another episode.
pauline97557 SarahParahHarah
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I feel that you really should go and have this checked out by your GP,it does sound as if it could be AF but really should be thinking of having an EGC and your Blood pressure taken,if it happens again phone 111 they will advise you of the best action to take or failing that go to A and E.
afiblady pauline97557
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curious what part of the world i am talking with. anybody from KY?
linda51222 afiblady
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If people on the forum refer to 111 or A&E they are in the UK 111 is a service available for advice and to direct you to the most appropriate servive for your needs. Rather than ringing 999 that is for life threatening emergencies, A&E is Accident and Emergency.
Hope that clarifies things for you.
L.
suzanne48640 SarahParahHarah
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Good luck!
simon56380 SarahParahHarah
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Anyway, after a couple of weeks of feeling lousy(and getting worse) my wife called an ambulance to me. Ignoring my symptoms had led to my left ventricle becoming severely enlarged!
I'm lucky and have made a good recovery, but can now really aware of the extra stain that consuming alcohol(and presumably other substances) can place on the heart. One or two drinks seems OK for me at the moment, but anymore than this starts to increase my heart rate (by up to 20-30 bum).
simon56380
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Robbity SarahParahHarah
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