Hi jen,

No its physical only but when its happening it will certainly make someone more anxious. It kind of mimics anxiety especially the rapid heart beat.

One night my hubby woke from a deep sleep to a racing heart beat. Funny it would happen most when he was relaxed or sleeping. So off the the emergency room. We only lived 3 blocks away and I was so disoriented at the time we walked out the front door and I said would you like to walk :eek: . I quickly came to my senses and got us a cab.

Well they took him immediatley and by then his heart was 178 a minute. They cold not get it to slow down. Gave him one set of drugs and it did not work and the docs stared at each other and said what now? I wanted to punch them at the time. Well the second set of drugs worked but hubby said for a brief moment it made it feel like his heart stopped. Thats exactly what it did. The drugs stopped and restarted his heart.

So they admitted him and the enxt day tried to tease his heart to do it again. It was tough but it did.

The doc then explained it as faulty wiring. It was electrical. Think of a train that goes around a track in a circle but at one end thre is one of those offshoots. The electrical circuit is going around the heart and instead of going around the circle it heads off on that offshoot. And it has no where else to go so its sends the heart into racing beats.

So they send the wire up the leg to your heart find that one ofshoot and burn it closed so the current cannot go there anymore.

I dont kow if it would have a connection to seizures but then everything is so of connected. And it sure would give me panic attacks fi it were happening.

But the procedure is very commonplace now. I remembering watching a golf tourney on TV and some golfer was taken away and had it and it was fixed immediatley.

If you have it I would talk to the doc about the procedure. Good luck

Dear Shelly thanks so much i was starting to believe it was triggered by stress.
but i too will get this while relaxing, and yes thats exactly how they explained it to me at the hospital. it's not only frieghtning it's makes me feel quite light headed, thanks again. jen

I hope they can fix it for you. They certainly made it seem like a piece of cake for my hubby.

Good luck