How was it for you? It started with heart palpitations, like a pause and shortness of breath. Then m…

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How was it for you? It started with heart palpitations, like a pause and shortness of breath. Then my heart starts beating fast, I catch my breath, and everything returns to normal. This happens almost every day. I went to my GP to get a referral to a cardiologist and for a Holter monitor, plus some tests. The appointment is in a month, and there's a waiting list for the Holter monitor. And today, my mother-in-law confessed that she probably took potassium supplements when she was being treated for cystitis 🙈
I already posted about my son, but I still want to share the details. I've moved past this experienc…
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Kristin★
I had something similar, I thought it was one thing but it turned out to be gallstones... get it checked out!
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Kristina
Kristin★ Oh my gosh. I'm scared of stones.
I had an ultrasound in May, and there were no stones.
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Dergunova Lesya
It's a palpitation episode, like extrasystole. I get them sometimes. My potassium levels are fine. They happen to me during periods of nervousness, lack of sleep, and fatigue, especially when ferritin is low.
I've had my blood work done for deficiencies, an ultrasound, and an ECG.
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Kristina
Dergunova Lesya Yes, that's what my mother-in-law called it. She's an ER doctor.
My ferritin has always been low. I take an iron supplement every 3 months.
Yes, I'm anxious right now, but I've been feeling this way for about 3 months. And I notice it a couple of times a day sometimes. My EKG and Holter monitor results during pregnancy weren't great and showed changes.
As for fatigue, I sleep very little, but I wake up feeling refreshed.
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Olga
With similar issues, my potassium is fine, but the problem is elsewhere.
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kristina
Potassium deficiency can cause numbness and tingling. What you're describing sounds more like extrasystole, possibly a nervous manifestation.
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Dergunova Lesya
Dergunova Lesya You need to get your nervous system and ferritin in order. My cardiologist told me about cardiogenic neurosis
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Kristina
kristina I have that every day.
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Kristina
Olga You too?
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Kristina
Dergunova Lesya My heart has always been fine. But during pregnancy, things started to go wrong. Deviations. I didn't feel them, but now this is happening.
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Iskritskaya katya
I get that too, but it feels like something is flipping inside me around my chest on the left, or even in the middle, for just a second. It takes my breath away. I've started taking magnesium, and it's helped
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