Hello everyone,
I have a history of general anxiety, panic attacks but I have controlled the symptoms thanks to my psychologist she is brilliant and made me understand why I had all the horrible symptoms, and how to manage them and up until recently have done quite well.
Recently I have been having a build up of serious stress recently. My elderly mother hasn't been well and I worry a lots about her.
A couple of nights ago I went to bed I wasn't as stressed up by then, read my book and fell sleep. About an hour or so later I woke up bit disorientated like in another bedroom, sat on my bed, stood up to go to toilet and my heart started racing out of nowhere, then I fell short of breath and I started panicking called my husband, he was sleeping like a log then my daughter came to see me touched my chest and said my heart was beating very hard, she got me the blood pressure machine and the heart rate was 115 bpm, and I think it was higher when it started, perhaps 140 bpm for about 2 minutes until I measured with the machine. BP was 140/90. Gradually the bpm came down so did the blood pressure. It took about 30 minutes for my heart to be normal again.
I went to A&E in the morning, my ECG, BP and bpm were normal but they said it's best to go when I have the actual palpitation, but I live 30 minutes away from the hospital s it's kind of difficult by the time I get there the palpitation has calm down, although I told them next time I will definitely go straight away. My ECG and bpm were normal.
I am worried that it could be a dangerous palpitation, now my anxiety has came back because it's very hard to diagnose it unless you go to the hospital when it happens.
Could you share your histories about palpitations? TIA for reading my long thread.