Anyone experience a Heart arrhythmia?

[silverhead]

Am in contact with my Doctor via e-mail about my recent experience and She suggested a possible Heart arrhythmia, A little background:
twice in the past two weeks I have been awakened from a deep sleep with the feeling best described as an overall strong "vibration" or "buzzing" of my entire body, I'm not sure how long this lasts, probably just a minute or two, but you know how confused you can be when awakening so suddenly from deep sleep, She asked me to try to get a pulse when this occurs , but I replied that it is a good idea, but I'm not sure I will be able to do it as I feel almost locked up as far as movement while this happens. I've never had heart problems in the past, I do have controlled high blood pressure and COPD (Use a Nebulizer 4 times per day, and no problems with this treatment, oxygen sat is in the high 90's).
So I guess my question is - during an arrhythmia episode, was your experience anything like this?
Tom

[sullidog]

I had one when I had a catheter, do you have a cath or a fistula?

[silverhead]

neither, I was the caregiver.......

[boswife]

i can be of no help as i dont know what it is but your discription sounds very familiar to something i go through, but have no idea what or why it happens as im not good about doing the dr checkup thing for myself     . Soooo, if you find out, i hope you'll come and let us know AND take care of it!!  Hope all else is well with you, we miss all the help you give here..

[Des]

Had two of of these -

One was severe - it was called a SVT and the result was a pulse of 220, they had to stop my heart to reset it. Symptoms I  had - short of breath, dizziness, sweating and chest pain. Scary stuff. They don't know what caused it.


The other was mild - with breathing and oxygiene it subsided.

Hope it doesn't happen to you (and me) again.

[KrazeeBrod]

I have a minor arrythmia in that occasionally (about every 1-4 heartbeats), I skip a beat. This has been going on since I first became affected by CKD. The doctors tell me that as long as it doesn't get worse, I am fine. I have passed heart stress tests 3 times in the past 5 years.  But...

I do not feel that "buzzing" and the arrythmia doesn't seem to be affecting me in any way. In addition, I have never had such a high pulse rate, although occasionally my heart rate has dropped to low levels for a short period of time. So please... check with your doctor.