Hi. So Has Anyone Ever Had Heart Palpatations(skips) During and After Pregnancy?

My 22 year old daughter started having issues not to long after my husband (her dad) suddenly passed away in 10/2015. We spent a couple of hours about once a month in the ER for the staff to "reset" her heart. Her heart would start racing over 200 beats/minute which can get very dangerous. This was very scary. She had no genetic issues that we knew of... we were told that the stress and anxiety from losing her dad had a lot to do to trigger her issue

She saw a cardiologist who specializes in electro cardiology and she was diagnosed with SVT. After a round of RX that mostly worked but not good for long term treatment and control, she opted for the ablation of her heart in July 2016. Since then, she has had the preliminary episode but it has not kicked off SVT again. She was cleared by the cardiologist in June 2017 for 1 year.

The Dr. froze the area that was acting up during the ablation. There are no guarantees that it won't come back in another area of her heart but since we are this far out from surgery the outlook is very positive.

Check into a more specialized cardiologist. This is likely completely different from your issues but it can't hurt to be checked out. Daughter did say that a couple years back during exams at school, she did have some palpitations but didn't think much of it. She is a high strung young lady who puts a LOT of pressure on herself to have perfect grades in college as well as run her life smoothly.

We dealt specifically with Baylor Heart Hospital.

You never know.

Good luck to you.

I had heart palpitations on and off for quite a while. I went to a functional medicine practitioner since my doctor was absolutely no help and basically said "it happens". Anyway, she did blood work to address my deficiencies and then had me take high quality supplements to get back to normal and they went away. I was very low in the storage form of iron (not the iron in my bloodstream), low in magnesium and calcium, and low in vitamin D and the B vitamins. The blood test she did was very precise and although the differences between my levels and what is normal didn't seem like much to me for some of these things, she said actually getting the right balance is very important. She also did hormone testing and found out my estrogen is very high all of the time. She also found out I have hashimoto's autoimmune disease which is something that affects your thyroid. I changed my diet and am taking some other supplements for this. Anyway, I feel much better now and don't get heart palpitations anymore...other things that were off also have gone away. PS - I want to add I did bloodwork through my regular doctor and they said all is normal. The testing this functional medicine doctor did (yes she also went to medical school) was much much more precise.

I also saw a cardiologist because my heart was beating too much/too fast. I have occasional beats that feel stronger all of a sudden. They didn't find anything. Turned out that I had several deficiencies. Now that I've addressed them, I'm doing much better and my heart only goes harder when it's supposed to. I was low on iron, B12, hypothyroid and dehydrated.

If I were you, I would have bloodwork done and see what's going on. Make sure to look at ferritin (not just how much iron is circulating) as well as T3 and T4 (in addition to TSH). Your best bet is to see an ND. My TSH was within normal limits as far as MDs were concerned, but I still felt bad.

Good luck!

I found out I had skips when I was undergoing IVF. I went to a heart doctor and they put me on magnesium and potassium. A year later there were hardly any skips during my 24 hour monitor. Good luck!

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I found out I had skips when I was undergoing IVF. I went to a heart doctor and they put me on magnesium and potassium. A year later there were hardly any skips during my 24 hour monitor. Good luck!

Like an arrhythmia? No.

I have had palpitations (slight) when my B12 levels were low.

Have your thyroid levels checked.
Hyperthyroid will cause your heart to race.

A blood cardiac workup is not enough. You don't mention having had a CT with contrast done. You haven't mentioned a cardiac ultrasound or stress test. If you have an electrical issue with your heart, then there are other things that they can do to figure them out.

If I were you, I would go ahead and wean your baby. Get your hormones back to normal and see if this resolves. If it doesn't, then you have some decisions to make. They cannot see an electrical problem with the heart by scanning it. What they do for these issues is go up through a vein starting in the groin and thread a catheter through all the way up into your heart. That's how they figure out that you really do have an electrical issue and the can actually fix it while they are up there.

There is also heart medication, but taking heart medication when you don't actually know your diagnosis is problematic.

Could be just hormone levels. I've had that issue post menopause (very common) and its weird but nothing my doctor is concerned about. If you've been checked out by a physician then its probably just hormones for you too.

I have had this issue since going into menopause - apparently something to do with hormone levels (according to my doctor). I wonder with the hormone flux during and after pregnancy, it would cause the same thing. If you've done the tests, holter monitor, cardiac workup, I'd look at having panel done that includes hormone levels just to see if that is the culprit. Or at least ask if that is a possibility at your next dr. appt.

Good luck!