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Oh , and another thing , i just re-read your posts , even skipped heart beats wouldn't mean that you have a heart problem . Sometimes i had such palpitation that my heart was running like a broken wheel . 1-2-3 , pause , then 4 normals , then faster 1-2-3 , then pause , and so on . The heart rate is controlled by the brain , that sends electrical impulses to the sinus node , located in the heart . The sinus node is the heart's natural pacemaker . Now imagine this : if your nervous system is having problem , and sends random signals to the heart , the heart will just follow his command . Also a hyperactive nervous system , is what people with anxiety , panic , stress disorders or any neurotic syndrome have . The signals to the sinus node are even , but they are sent with increased haste rate . This is what they call a sinus tachycardia . The good thing about you didn't have any skipped or extra beats is that you didn't need any extra tests like a echocardiography or a CT-Scan that might have been needed for further investigations .

Post edited by: weltschmerz, at: 02/02/2012 03:50 PM

Red meat does weird things to me.

It affects my nervous system and I get really funky heart beats with it.

I guess I didn't really connect it with red meat but this happens with chicken too for me.

I eat pork and lamb and do okay with it usually.

I also cannot eat my food hot or that causes me to feel very bad. The heat from the food causes the blood to pool to my stomach. So I have to eat everything room temperature.

Hi AJ , i am sad to hear that your bad experiences forced you to form a habit , the one you talked about , never eat away from home . It is a sort of phobia . But it will pass if you will manage to understand that this is a natural reaction of the body . After the panic and anxiety disorders i have been through , i have noticed that i have forgot my old ME . And i've had to discover myself again and learn a lot of stuff again . And from time to time i remember things from the past , when i was with no problems , and my heart started to race even from too much caffeine intake , or smoking , emotions or so . I remember that when i was young , and i had to call i girl for the first time , and there were no mobile phones , and i have too call her home phone , my heart reached astronomic speeds . I was very anxious from the idea that maybe the parents would answer the phone and start to question me . I was a very shy guy . But this never scared me . And i have asked myself "why are you scared now , if you had them all the time ?" . This helped me to manage my fear of a racing heart , and the cardiologist answer has destroyed this fear for good .

Oh me too during tests at school my heart would about beat right out of my chest and it didn't even phase me.

It's amazing how similar our feelings are.

Hi damsel , in fact it is clinically proven that hot food can cause many other problems to the stomach , so it's very good that you can eat it the way you do . You avoid many other possible problems without even knowing . God has some strange ways to do his things and he doesn't gives us explanations , but we need to trust Him . I hate to get my food hot , especially if i am very hungry and it burns my mouth . It makes me go extremely mad , because i am very nervous if i am hungry and i can't eat it because it's too hot .

Post edited by: weltschmerz, at: 02/02/2012 04:13 PM

It is the same for almost every single person on this planet , damsel , with a single difference : some do notice this , and some don't . We do notice it because of our hypervigilance , an enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats . Hypervigilance can be a symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder and various types of anxiety disorder .

Post edited by: weltschmerz, at: 02/02/2012 04:13 PM

Haha , i have remembered that , as kids , me and my friends were always going to steal fruits , cherries or so , from some fruits plantations , and most of the times we got caught by the person that was guarding them . We had a myth that he has a gun with salt and he will shoot us . Do i need to mention how fast my heart was beating when i have heard him yelling ? I guess it was like 300 bpm . And this didn't stop us for trying and trying again . We were kids , we were having fun and that was all what we were thinking about . I wish i can be a kid again . Not to worry about anything but play .

My dauf=ghter gave this to me tonight. Hope this helps I hve it hanging on my wall now

I asked for strength...

And God gave me difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for wisdom....

And God gave me problems to solve

I asked for prosperity...

And God gave me a brain and energy to work

I asked for courage...

And God gave me danger to overcome

I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help

I asked for a favor...

And God gave me opportunities

I recieved nothing I wanted...

But everything I needed!!!

Pure truth . So beautiful . Thank you . We have a word : God gives you what you ask for , but he will never put it in your bags with his own hands . You need to take it with your own hands . Knowledge is when a person achieves the level that he can detect these situations and do the right thing . And another one : God is putting the people he loves to very hard trials .

Check the Book of Job , in the Holy Bible , it may help you .

Post edited by: weltschmerz, at: 02/02/2012 05:04 PM