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Occasionally having rapid heart beats, dizzy, short of breath
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Nov 18, 2025 | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
Hi, Im a former patient with arrythmia problems so a bit familure with you symptoms. The problem is it can be from a few different problems of which until its Identified is hard to say what it is. So in reading your post I have a couple of questions that typically when a problem cant be identified they use these tests to see what your feeling. Known as a Halter test they put a type of EKG recorder on you for a period of time. Ive had them anywhere from 24 hours to 72 hours. It records you heart and the beauty is when you feel the problem you can make a note of time and date so they can look at your heart during that period.
The other question is are you under the care of a regular cardiologist or someone that specializes in Heart Rhythm problems known as a Electrophysiologist Cardiologist or EP Cardiologist. for short. They are the ones who concentrate in the electrical parts of the heart and specialize in that area. General Cardiologist are great as I like to call it the plumbing of the heart or the physical parts and if they see it during an ekg can identify a problem but if its determined it electrical then usually you will see an EP Cardiologist also.
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Hi there I wore a monitor for 72 hrs it showed I had abnormalities also stress test showed abnormal as well. They called me telling me I was high risk so I was to get cardiac catheterization done ASAP. They put me on priority list as high risk. They stated they did all the tests that was needed to done. My cardiac catheterization they stated there was no blockage which is great but I still remain will no answers. How can some tests be abnormal then find nothing wrong but blaming it on anxiety. There is no warning that is going to happen. I mean I was at local grocery store just taking it slow and out of blue I started having racing heart, dizzy sweating short lived but I was not doing anything physical but pushing a empty cart. Now I do want to add I did have internal bleeding after they did cardiac catheterization in groin area. They didn't know what was causing me so much pain in my back I laid there for 3 hours before they decided to do a another scan that's what they discovered I was bleeding internally. Boy was that painful. They kept telling me because my back was much in pain they claimed it was my chronic back issues but the scan showed different. I ended up staying in ICU. I am allergic to aspirin and it shows on my list of allergies but 2x I had a nurse try to give me it. Unsure why the aspirin when I was bleeding internally anyway.
I have googled my symptoms and it shows one test they didn't do. Don't recall the name but going down the esophagus. I was informed I they would found anything wrong through cardiac catheterization