Mini heart attacks at nigth

Does anyone else feel like they might have mini heart attacks at night?

I have these outrageous dreams. I just had one, where I was fighting some guy who had kept me as his slave for months. I was fighting him in my driveway with a tree limb. He took the tree limb, and then I got a broom handle, and I was strangling him by the back of the neck with the broom handle, and then I woke up. My heart was beating out of my chest and it wasn't like a healthy heavy heart beat. It felt weird. And blood seemed to be pumping oddly. My nose felt like it does when you wack it hard with something, or get a punch in the nose. You see stars sort of.

Just wondering if anyone else gets this type of thing. I'm not sure if it's a mini heart attack. It kind of feels like it, but I'm not sure being that I've never had a heart attack.

I'm wondering if I should go through with one of those holter monitors at night to see if I can catch one of these episodes. I've dragged my feet about it in the past, but maybe I should do it now being that I have good insurance.

Yes do an Ekg.I do not know if the holter does ekg or just monitors HR and BP.

Also a lot of us have these very weird and vivid dreams where we wake up with our heart pounding.I was thinking it was a panic attack in my dream.I have them very rarely now.Before I had them every night and they woke me up 1-2 times/night.They are awful.

Others will tell you more about them.

When I was on babesia meds and herxing I woke up at night all the time with this....

I always thought it was adrenaline surges.isle of langerhorn above kidneys getting attacked..could be nerves around heart too..the found partial rbbb on ekg and slight enlargement echo was clear .for any other infection on heart they give iv abx ...i chased cardio ave for a while .doc just gave some cocholine(which is close to poison) which i never took. If babs and candida treatment can stop it?

http://heartpvcs.com
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"PVC's, also known as ectopic heartbeats, or extrasystole, can be a scary thing to have happen to you"

This website might help. It at least acknowledges they are frightening and gives advice. Many websites minize them. I was relieved to find out what was happening to me and that my cardiologist had had them when she was pregnant with her twins. She knows how annoying and scary they were. It seems when the heart is stressed it can react this way. Perhaps reading about them you will recognize if this is your thing. If you look around the website they make helpful suggestions.

I hope you feel better soon.

Please do a full check of your thyroid hormones, electrolytes in blood, EKG, Echocardiogram. It can be several things:

• tachycardia/palpitations from lyme - reversible
  
• POTS (a more serious tachycardia) - are these heart issues getting worse when you stand?
  
• partial or complete heart block - dying lyme bacteria in your heart release toxins that interfere with cardiac nerve conduction - it is reversible with treatment
  
• valve damage for lyme but more probably from bartonella - these are visible with Echocardiography - irreversible
  
• abnormal thyroid hormones - these can easily affect the heartbeat. Are these heart issues getting worse when you lie in bed, so horizontally ?
  
• abnormal electrolytes
  

Almost all lyme patients have some heart involvement and it is usually benign (reversible and not life threatening). Nevertheless the overwhelming majority of people that die from lyme disease they do die because of heart failure, so we should never take any heart problems easily and just ignore them ... If All the tests above find nothing then you will probably be fine.

Sounds a bit like PTSD to me, although you do need to get your heart checked out.

Have you tried meditation before you go to bed? I do something called Yoga Nidra. Youtube has a bunch of Yoga Nidra videos. It's really easy; all you do is lie there and listen.

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