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I have never heard of a connection between the vagus nerve and palpitations. I myself do have issues with my vagus nerve, but when they happen, I get lightheaded and my blood pressure drops. I don't have palpitations...I just feel faint.
Have you been able to record a tracing when you have experienced these episodes with an event monitor that you can push a button when you feel symptoms? Another thing you can do is to get a Kardia device monitor (formerly called Alive Cor) for your smartphone and that allows you take an EKG which you can then transmit to your doctor. If you are having an arrythmia you may be able to catch. Or, as others have suggested, perhaps an implantable loop monitor like Linq or Reveal.
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Palpitations are relatively benign- the issue is whether the symptoms are causing problems that are difficult to deal with. I know several people who have regular palpitations and either don't notice them (picked up during a routine EKG), or are able to ignore them. Its also a broad term in that there are many kinds- rapid, flutter, hard beats, skipped beats, regular and irregular beats. If the symptoms are interfering with your life then it needs to be dealt with. IF the problem is relatively benign then I would imagine that the treatment needs to be seriously considered since drug therapy can also cause its own host of problems; as discussed in this forum. I would think that your doctor (cardiologist?electrophysiologist) would have weighed the following: How fast is your rate, how long do the palpitations last and what is your response to them or how is your body dealing with them? If you feel dissatisfied with the diagnosis and/or prognosis why not get a second opinion or go back to the doctor and explain how you feel? I've done that several times during the course of my treatment and found it very helpful. Good luck! Martishka
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Hi Martishka,
I hear what you're saying but I've been to SIX cardiologists, I mean how many more can I go see ? Two were electrophysiologists and all of them came back with the same basic answer, " We can't find anything wrong with you " and this is also after a battery of blood, urine, electrolyte and blood pressure tests plus two CT angiograms, numerous EKG's and an echo-cardiogram and they're stumped.
I made it crystal clear on how MY palps affect me and the severity of them, when I get a big one it feels like someone punched you in the chest and that sensation stays with me for hours and hours. I feel disoriented and don't want to talk after it happens but again all these Dr.s are stumped.
The only thing that has helped me was my own research and finding out that magnesium taurate helps diminish palps, and they have with it but I'm up to hearing what everyone else and you have to say on here because what really gets me is HOW in the world can I have 6 cardiologists stumped, I mean the last I checked I was from this planet, human and can't be the first person in history with bad heart palps.
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Hi Cynaburst,
I wore 2 twenty four hour monitors within a 3 month period and had MULTIPLE palps while wearing them and my cardiologist said that these were normal palpitations. I told him my father is 88 years old and never had a palp, now THAT is normal, this is not but that's what they said so I'm done with monitors, I have the palps, they get recorded but they also get dismissed, someone explain that to me. ????