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Thank you for your question. When you experience an sudden raise or acceleration in your heart rhythm, we need to have you wear a heart monitor that allows you to push a button when you get the symptoms and you need a electrocardiogram. These tests allow your doctor to know the heart rhythm associated with your symptoms. Heart rates and suddenly race and suddenly stop, often reflect an abnormal heart rhythm called a supraventricular tachycardia. There are many ways to treat a supraventricular tachycardia so you don’t experience symptoms, but the first step is diagnosing the problem. In most patients that have a supraventricular tachycardia, the condition is not life threatening. However, you need to get additional testing as mentioned to make sure that your physician knows exactly what is causing your symptoms.

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Chest pain when you lie flat on your back is usually not from a heart attack. However, you should always contact your physician and receive a complete history and physical examination. Typically heart pain is provoked by physical, emotional, or social stresses rather than relaxation. What comes to my mind if you have recurrent pain when you lie flat is gastroesophageal reflux disease. In this condition, acid from the stomach can spill into the esophagus and cause chest pain. However, if you also have other symptoms such as shortness of breath, swelling of your abdomen or legs, then these symptoms may represent another condition in which the heart muscle may be weakened. These other possibilities show that it is important to consult with your doctor.

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Thank you for your question. Chest pain from the heart can occur from physical, emotional, or social stresses. When you eat, your body needs to move a lot of blood to the intestines to help with food digestion. In some people, the need to pump more blood to the intestine can cause chest pain because the heart has narrowed coronary arteries or in some cases narrowed arteries in that lead to the intestines. I would recommend to contact your physician and receive a complete history, physical examination, and appropriate testing. The symptoms do not seem like a stroke to me, but they may represent a problem with the heart and/or bowels

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Thank you for your question. Absolutely you should see a doctor. I am happy to hear that you have stopped smoking. Smoking can cause early and aggressive coronary artery disease in people. From a medical perspective, we need to look at the most emergent possibilities first, and that means a physical examination and appropriate testing of the heart. You may have experienced a heart attack 4 days ago. With a heart attack the pain is often intense at first, but then afterwards goes away. Pain that is worse with deep breathing can be from the lining of the lungs or heart which is a list emergent condition, but you need to be seen and have your heart checked first as soon as possible.

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Thank you for your question. Your symptoms are not classic for a heart attack, but it is still important for you to see a physician for a complete physical examination and history. A sharp pain that radiates to the back provoked by lifting is likely a muscle strain, but it also can represent an injury to the large artery that leaves the heart, the aorta. From a medical perspective, we need to look at the most emergent possibilities first, and that means a physical examination and appropriate testing of the heart and aorta.

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Thank you for your question. If you experience chest pain it is important to tell your physician. Even if the pain is not what you think may represent your heart, it actually may be as we all feel heart pain differently. Heart pain can be felt on the left, right, in the back, jaw, or not at all. Isodril helps to relax the coronary arteries and lower blood pressure, but if you have significant blockages in any of your coronary arteries you can still have pain. I would recommend to contact your physician and receive a complete history, physical examination, and appropriate testing.

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Thank you for your question. If you experience chest pain it is important to tell your physician. Even if the pain is not what you think may represent your heart, it actually may be as we all feel heart pain differently. Heart pain can be felt on the left, right, in the back, jaw, or not at all. You have one risk factor for early coronary artery disease in that you have high cholesterol, so again, contact your physician and receive a complete history, physical examination, and appropriate testing.

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Thank you for your question. When you take a hot shower, our blood pressure can go down because the blood vessels around our body and skin begin to dilate. When the blood pressure drops, then our heart will beat faster and more forceful. Usually this is the cause of an elevation in heart rate with a hot shower. You can try to take a shower with warm water or minimize the time you spend in the hot shower. If your heart is really having to work to keep up your blood pressure in a hot shower, then you may feel chest pain and anxiety. Pruning of the hands and feet does not reflect the heart function, but likely suggests you are spending more time in the shower than you realize. You can help your body by not taking very long hot showers and staying hydrated. If your heart begins to beat suddenly in other occasions that to you seems abnormal or out of place, you should talk with your doctor. We often use heart monitors that you wear from days to weeks that tell us exactly what the heart is doing when you get your symptoms.

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Thank you for your question. When your mother experiences an sudden raise or acceleration in her heart rhythm, we need to have her wear a heart monitor that allows her to push a button when you get the symptoms and she needs a electrocardiogram. These tests allow your doctor to know the heart rhythm associated with her symptoms. Heart rates and suddenly race and suddenly stop, often reflect an abnormal heart rhythm called a supraventricular tachycardia. There are many ways to treat a supraventricular tachycardia so you don’t experience symptoms, but the first step is diagnosing the problem. As we get older we do not tolerate fast heart rates as well as we do when we are younger. As such, symptoms can get worse and include shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, and at times passing out. When people experience shortness of breath, we also want to get an ultrasound of the heart to make the heart function, heart valves, and heart chamber sizes are normal.