And it happened again
As I was growing up, especially in my teen years I had many episodes of rapid heart beats or I found out today that it has a medical term, Tachycardia. I was a bit amazed to actually know that it is common. I didn’t have great depth and knowledge of using the internet when I was a teen, and the world wide web wasn’t as big as it is today. The reason I am even mentioning it today cause I had an episode this morning of it. I haven’t had one in about 4 years, and today of all of a sudden I suffer from it. I am pretty good at dealing with it and I know how to stop it. Sometimes it takes more than one try and a few minutes of chest pain, but today I stopped it before it got worse. It is very harmful if a person cannot stop it as soon as possible. The only way I found to slow down the beats is to take very long breaths. It’s like almost having an asthma attack and trying to breath in and out to stop it.
I never understood why I had this problem and I know it is not caused by stress, and it was almost daily for me. I coped with it because it didn’t effect me too much physically. I had this problem up to my early 20’s then suddenly stopped. You can say I was a bit relieved because I honestly did not like having to deal with it anymore in public. It was usually in the middle of the night that I would wake up suddenly cause of it, and I thought it might be sleep related and I am not getting enough oxygen thinking it was sleep Apnea. However, many times it wasn’t pretty to have to deal with it in class or at work, so I knew sleep didn’t cause it.
Now, all I can hope is for it to not happen again. I am really don’t want to have to deal with it all over again.













Hi, There are many causes of Tachycardia and if basic treatable causes like thyroid, anxiety, too muuch coffee or stimulants are tules out then most likely it is a hyperexcitable conducting system. You must consult a physician and another way we uised to stop it from extending beyond the normal bearable range is carotid massage. Ask your doctor about it. I knw this can be distressing to have palpitation for no reason at all
Stay Happy
I have it, too… you aren’t alone. Mine is triggered by stress, and the longest one lasted about 2 minutes with moderate pain.