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Does anyone suffer from these? They usually happen just after I get into bed and am lying there trying to go to sleep. I can hear my heart beating and I wonder if anyone else could. It is weird. Have been looking it up on the internet but really cannot find any reason as I don't think I have heart problems. Someone told me it could be a symptom of menopause. Any one know?That happens to my sister.  She has some kind of arrythmia(?) that she takes a pill for.   Her doc also gave her some xanax but she doesn't take it.  I'll probably be talking to her tonight, I'll ask her.  Oh, she takes baby asprin too.  In fact, I'll give her a buzz in a few while I'm waiting for my daughter to get out of driver's ed. [QUOTE=lorster]Does anyone suffer from these? They usually happen just after I get into bed and am lying there trying to go to sleep. I can hear my heart beating and I wonder if anyone else could. [/QUOTE]

Yep - it's quite annoying.  Definitely get it checked out ASAP, but chances are it's a benign but annoying arrhythmia.  And if it isn't, they can almost certainly fix it and/or treat it with medication.

I've been through about 000 worth of ER visits and cardiac testing, and they've determined that I have a harmless but annoying arrhythmia.  I take metoprolol to control it, and if it goes really whacko I take a small Xanax.  If I get too little sleep, too much caffeine or get too stressed out it gets worse.  I could undergo cardiac catheterization to find the spot(s) causing the problem, and have them zapped, but I'd much rather just spend a month on my metoprolol.Hi Lori... I used to get them constantly. My heart would beat like an old time percolator, no steady beat, just boom boom BOOM...boom BOOM...boom, you get the idea. I could hear it and feel it and, at times, even see it beating.

Do you eat or drink anything within an hour or so before bed?  My heard did that when i would eat a poptart late at nice with a glass of milk.  The allergy to milk that i found out later was the reason why my heart did that.I bet it happens more frequently than you notice.  It's just that during the day when you're busy running around, you tend not to notice it as much.  When you get in bed, and everything's quiet, you tend to notice the irregular heartbeats more. Lori - I have had confirmed sinus tach since about 1996.  Used beta blockers until a few years ago when my husband in desparation over our lack of success with getting a diagnosis, was reading the insert and we realized it was not suppose be taken with my thyroid medication, which I had been doing for ten years.  I stopped immediately.  I had started taking the beta blocker because I couldn't sleep at night as the pounding in my ears was so loud, it was keeping me up all night.  But, since starting into AI medications, the sinus tach is an occasional, but very disconcerning episode of my heart feeling like its turning over inside my chest.  Nothing else happens.  Very weird, but I sure understand because its an awful feeling.  Take care ~~ CathyAlways get it checked out to be sure.  That being said, I get an episode of palps once every 3-5 years.  Usually it lasts about 10 days, just long enough for me to get the cardiac consult, have an EKG, use the holter monitor for 24 hours, get a stress test, and for them to find nothing wrong.  Then it disappears again for a few years.

 

It may be nothing (or menopause, I've never heard that before), but better safe than sorry.

 

(And yes, Cathy, I'm following you around tonight.
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