Sounds like me 20 years ago, I’m 78 now. Most of my heart problems have started in the last 4 years or so. But back then I had similar symptoms with pounding palpitations that were very painful. At first, the initial half of the heartbeat felt sort of normal but then came the delayed second half. It was that powerful, I thought someone punched me extremely hard in the chest. They were palpitations alright but so out of whack it felt like I was about to die.

Zip forward after 100mgs of Metoprolol daily. Things are still messed up but with no medical insurance or money, I suffered. Then one night it happened, just like the cardiologist had predicted, my death. I was getting poppers as I call them, very fast heartbeats, about 8 to 20 beats in a row. Now cut to the chase, I wake up from a sound sleep and felt very badly. I checked my pulse and to my shock, there was none. I literally thought I was dead and this is what death feels like. Turns out to be Pulseless Ventricle Tachycardia and my heart is beating 197bpm, to fast to feel a pulse. My bp was over 200/100 and I felt like I was going to blackout.

Since then, they discovered I have Wolff, Parkinson, White Syndrome, a birth defect I never knew I had for 77 years. That’s caused 3 heart attacks plus more complications. My advice is don’t give up, if you have insurance, search for the cause of you pain before it kills you. I was bounced from doctor to doctor, department after department because by now, I’m still poor but I’m on Medicare and Medicaid.

My first heart attack it felt like a five or ten pound bag of sugar was sitting on my chest while I was laying in bed. That got the whole cardiology department in an uproar. My heart is about to quit because I left to many symptoms slip by without saying a word. Now my heart is out of muscle strength to pump correctly and nothing can help except a transplant. Yours sounds the same way and your brain and organs aren’t getting enough oxygenated blood. Don’t stop looking till you get the correct reason for the way you feel. I didn’t