Connection between digestive problems and tachycardia?

Hello everyone,

My name is John and I am 26 years old. For the past 6 days I had a lot of weird symptoms. Everything started one night after a had some food and my heart rate after an hour or so went up to 150 beats and my blood pressure was 165/75. I immediately run to the er where I had a heart rate of 120 with bp of 144/70. After a little while it had gone down to normal, pulse 80 with bp of 125/55.

For the past days I have been experiencing the same symptoms and have gone to the er twice more just to be told that my ekg was normal with sinus tachycardia caught once.

I have been diagnosed with chronic gastritis years ago and one doctor told me that I might also have gerd. I have done so many cardio tests(15 ekg, holter a year ago, echocardiogram, xrays, blood works, stress test) and everything comes back normal. I am an anxiety sufferer but I get really anxious when I get the tachycardia. Most of the times that I get that, it will be either after food, or after some hours when my stomach is feeling really empty and I feel food stuck behind my throat down to my sternum.

Is it possible for gerd or chronic gastritis to be causing those tachycardias and pacs or pvcs sometimes? I haven't gone for an endoscopy yet, but I am surely planning on that.

Thanks for any responses,
John

I get pvcs all the all time and it definitely gets aggravated with over eating and reflux. It all started 30 some odd years ago when I started eating like crap and barhopping in college. I'm older and wiser now and the better/cleaner I eat, the less I notice it. I could go months now without noticing it. But the key is a good diet. No junk.

I'm 19 and I also experience what the poster has spoken about.

I was diagnosed with GERD when I was 17 and had gastritis and esophagitis. The tachycardia is pretty strange as well. I have it whenever I eat something difficult to digest and the symptoms seem to come along with IBS and a few other things. I don't really smoke, or drink or do anything really.

I got two endoscopies that revealed mostly just esophagitis, but the symptoms are AWFUL. I had such a massive fear that it was something wrong with my heart that I had a full check up with a 24 hour holter, ultrasound... etc. Nothing came up out of the ordinary aside from some sinus tachycardia. It drove me insane. I tried to find some sort of a cause for it, but none of it makes any sense. It feels as though despite the great advancements in medical technology, we're still an exceptionally long ways to go.

I tried nexium and omeprazole, but both seem to exacerbate my symptoms.

These episodes of breathlessness and tachycardia come and go(usually lasts a week after eating something difficult to digest like cold pizza or something). But it keeps making me think there's a problem with my heart.

As for the "vital exhaustion" mentioned above, I think it's better to hypothesize that VE is likely a result from a pre-existing physical condition. People do, in fact, work themselves to death in certain cases usually from a combination of unhealthy lifestyle and extreme stress, but the common case would probably be someone with heart disease or a coronary artery problem.



That vital exhaustion thing kind of scares me though. Despite not having any history of heart problems or anything aside from this bizarre tachycardia with indigestion... I think it's the fear of the unknown that gets to me the most. Changed my diet and everything, and lost of bit of weight, but I'm scared to exercise much ;-;

You are considered to have tachycardia when your heart rate is over 100 bpm. It can be caused by medical reasons, anxiety, fear, alcohol, caffeine, exercise, smoking, overactive thyroid, and some cold medicines, etc. IMO, anxiety plays a huge role in this, because it is so stressful to suffer from GERD. I know a lot about SVT, as I have it. I went to the ER about 4-hours after my attack began. My heart rate was 220, and it was caused by an electrical malfunction and it was resolved by restarting my heart with adenosine, along with a subsequent cardiac ablation. I'm not sure how much effect your diet plays into tachycardia, but it can't hurt to eat healthier and potentially get rid of the GERD symptoms. Nothing beats a complete cardiac workup!

Hello, this thread could be an answer to my question, while my conditions are pretty similar, but they differ slightly. I'm trying to explain strange things going on and understand whether they are related or not. It started after I had flu, it was very mild - low grade fever and a little bit of cough that's it. But still it was flu.
So in a week or so, I started having heartburn - not food related. It could appear first thing in the morning. It feels like I was pregnant. But I didn't. Then I started feeling some kind of bubbles in the chest like you need to burb, like a discomfort. And finally I started feeling thirsty and nauseous. After that I went to the doctor and she did the physical. All tests were perfect, she gave me some pump inhibitor to take telling, maybe it is gastritis and that's it. But in several days I had some hypertensive urgency, I never had any hypertension before. And during this my heart was pounding like crazy, I could lay on my back only, since felt like I don't have enough air.
In two days I went to the doctor, she made and ekg, which showed some slight abnormalities of S-T and referred me to cardiologist. My blood pressure was relatively high those days and I still feel nausea. Cardiologist didn't find any heart problems and ekg and sonogram. Gave me nebiololol for 1 week. I took it for 6 days. My heartbeat was low 45-55 bpm and my fingers started feeling numb. So after 6 days the blood pressure was better, I have some occasional raises, but they are going away on their own without any medications. At that time my heartburn was improved. But now it's been back with burping. No nausea. And some palpitations which scare me. For example I was lying in bed and it felt like my heart was squeezed for a second, then it went away. Next day, I decided to hear my heartbeat and I heard that several beats were missing (first time I heard that). At the same time I continue doing some cardio - like running. And no problems except for rare heartburn I'm feeling. But those things happens when resting and they last less than a second.
And additionally my fingers sometimes are feeling numb and getting white for a minute or so - like Ranaud's disease. And the heartbeat is around 55 bpm.
Do you know, can those 3 conditions be related to each other?

Thank you for your answer, I think I forgot to mention that at my internist my ekg had some slight S-T depression, but I guess later it's gone. I think mosty I'm concerned about my stomach and this discomfort, like i need to release a bubble of air from the inside. Since I used to workout I need to know can I still do weights, or there can be some problems with diagragm