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Q: WORRIED! Scary things are happening to me! Help ladies!

So I am 28 weeks and last night the scariest thing happened to me! I was sitting on my couch and my heart all of a sudden started racing and pounding really hard. I made it hard to breath and get air. Then my eyes got blurry and I got extremely dizzy and faint. By that point my heart was beating so fast and hard that my whole body was moving with the beat. It was so scary because this lasted a good couple hours. What could this be ladies? And has anyone ever felt like this before?

This question was asked Oct. 3, 2012 12:45pm
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Answered by -Lee-B - Oct. 3, 2012 1:11pm

I am by no means fit to give medical advice but suspect something related to blood pressure. I would have sought medical advice at the time. I would do so now, especially if it lasted more than a few minutes. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about...but I would get some proper medical advise to make sure it doesn't happen again, and so if it does you know what to do!

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Answered by kcrittenden - Oct. 3, 2012 9:26pm

Went to emerge and everything was ok. My baby girl was lying and squashing my diaphram which caused small heart pulpitations. They took blood and did tests and sent me home. What a loonngg day! Have my OB appointment in the morning so hopefully I will no more but until then they said its nothing serious. Thanks for your input ladies :)

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Answered by ginabee - Oct. 3, 2012 3:09pm

Honestly, if you feel like that again before your appointment, you may want to call and see if they can get you in earlier. Symptoms like that with high blood pressure is nothing to mess around with.

Hope you feel better!

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Answered by kcrittenden - Oct. 4, 2012 6:52pm

Thanks ladies. So far everything is ok. My OB thinks I may have an over active thyriod, and she sent me to the cardiologyst to get a 24 hour heart moniter to bring home and track my heart pulpitations. Hopefully I havent developed a heart problem. We will see anyways. My apointment is next week so fingers crossed :)!

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Answered by jkarleen - Oct. 3, 2012 1:54pm

So sorry that happened to you :( sounds to me like it could have also been related to your blood sugar. Having blurry vision and feeling faint is how you feel before you pass out. I have always delt with low blood sugar and will faint if I get to hot and have not eaten in awhile or am dehydrated. I would make sure you are drinking enough water too. Hope this helps and good luck to you!

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Answered by a member - Oct. 3, 2012 3:08pm

Anxiety Attack. They come out of nowhere, for no reason, and can last a very long time. :) Common in pregnancy. That's my vote.

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Answered by kcrittenden - Oct. 5, 2012 2:21am

I no how you feel TotMamma. It is extremely scary! Talk to your OB about it, but if it was the same symptoms as me then it was probably heart pulpitations. Which apparently is normal for pregnant women, which is even more scary :(. Hope all goes well with you! Fingers crossed!!

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Answered by TotMama - Oct. 4, 2012 8:13pm

I actually had that same problem last night. Everything you explained was the same for me. It is very scary. I have issues with anxiety but this for some reason felt a little more different then the "usual" panic attack. I ended up laying down and that kinda helped,But honestly I have no idea what that was all about. As a matter of fact I had an OB appt yesterday and my blood pressure was 110/50 so it wasn't my blood pressure that threw me into a tizzy ;/ very strange.

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Answered by kcrittenden - Oct. 3, 2012 1:22pm

I was wondering if blood pressure would do that. Thanks alot. I have my OB appointment in the morning so I am definately going to talk to her about it because it was the scariest thing I have ever had happen to me!

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Answered by ginabee - Oct. 4, 2012 1:09pm

So glad to hear everything is okay!

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