Has anyone felt internal vibration?

Hi ginajoy,
I too have experienced internal vibrations, although rarely — usually in the lower left abdomen, but have also on two or more occasions felt the vibrations directly over my heart (“cardiac thrill”), actually pulsating through the skin! Like you, this is post-catheter ablation
(for AF/AFl). I have an ILR that has not shown any sustained arrhythmia for 2+ years, so it is likely related to my MR.
I wish I could tell you some way to make them stop, they are anxiety-provoking events….they seem to be related to turbulent blood flow, possibly from a heart valve disorder.
At least we know it’s a real thing, and we’re not imagining it! 😉

Hi everyone!
I experienced AFIB a month ago and was in the hospital undergoing tests for 3 days. When released, one of the meds prescribed was 3.125mg of Coreg. After a week, the dose was increased to 6.25mg. I experienced a single vibration episode once each day the first 3 days, and on the 4th day had 4 episodes, all above the area of the heart. The dosage was reduced back to 3.125mg and the episodes went away.
I don't know if this helps, but it's another data point - if you have had a change in meds recently. I agree - it is certainly unnerving when experiencing it, as I had never heard of these symptoms before.

Some AF and most flutter is not noticed by patients, but a great many of us are highly intolerant to the palpitations if we feel them. Palpitations are what people feel in the chest wall, the thumping and bumping. They are only indicative of something going on, and are not diagnostic. The actual nature of the 'events' need to be properly diagnosed with a 12-lead ECG.

And yes, as a sufferer of AF for five years now, I do feel a pressure build-up of a kind, and some 'quivering', whether I am in flutter or in AF, and I have progressed to experience both. But, sometimes intercostal tissue and intercostal muscles (those between all the ribs) can quiver, as can other muscles occasionally. You probably shouldn't attribute what you feel to AF or flutter unless you can wear a monitor, or a smart watch, that can take a simultaneous ECG for you and show the concurrent activity.

This is the first time I've heard about this. I think I feel this many times a day. I have ectopic atrial tachycardia. It happens mostly after I’ve had a lot of episodes (but often not during them and does not show up on an EkG or a smart watch.) It also sometimes feels like my actual heart muscle hurts and accompanied by a feeling of dread.. Heart meds make it worse. I wonder if ablation would cure it or make it worse? (Ie: Ablation might cure the the tachycardia but not this -which is by far the worst symptom.) is there anything that relieves it?

I have felt what seemed like my heart was beating. I was told that it was happening when my pacemaker was kicking in. The last technician raised the heart beat up--and I hate to say this, because I was so upset that he raised it to high--I haven't felt it since. Either that or I am adjusting to the pacemaker.
I recall one night just as I went to bed, I felt quite thumbing. Just as I was going to call 911 it quit! So I didn't.

Yes, I had three ablations for an extra nerve pathway passing from, as I recall, my left ventricul to the right. First two tries didn't take. Ever since the third ablation in 2003, I have had the sensation of a fast heart rhythm down the left side of my body. If I dont feel a strong beating rhythm I often feel a vibration, or quivering, down my side into my left ankle. Countless doctors have reviewed it and no one knows what it is. I even had a neurologist tell me my symptoms were "impossible". It's very frustrating.

Yes, I have that, as well. It's a strange feeling. I've had Afib/flutter for nearly 30 years. An ablation that didn't help, two type II heart attacks from pulse > 160 for days, and CHF.

When I first started getting afib I would experience an extreme vibration sensation over my entire body. It was miserable. I could not sleep or rest with it. I was nearly incapacitated because of the painful none stop vibration over my entire body. Once cardioverted, the vibration was gone. I returned too normal again. Ablation ended the vibration sensations.

Which simply tells us what we already should know: that no 2 people respond to the various treatments for A-Fib the same way. I have a friend in her 80's who credits the ablation treatments to her continuing to enjoy a good quality of life. I had another friend for whom shock therapy kept her heart near normal. I myself considered the Watchman, speaking to the doctor who "invented" it, but decided to stick with Eliquis for now instead, with no identifiable side effects after 1 yr.

I have been on Mayo Connect for some time. Your initial comment seems to say it all that I've never seen addressed so directly -- no two people are alike therefore may well respond to various treatments in very different ways. It's been apparent per comments about Rx as well per those I have been taking. I expect this aspect is why we see medical specialists ... but in the law of large numbers they likely may not have seen it all either if that would even be possible. As such this is why I feel reading these many variations on Mayo Connect has been so valuable.