Fasciculations and Heartbeat Abnormalities

Haileyside

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Hi.Does anyone experienced some kind of relation between fasciculations and abnormal heart beats, like extra-systoli or PVC?Do you think our nerves, capable of doing this kind of play with our muscles, could affect the heartbeats or the heart's nerve conduction?I'm asking this because I tend to feel very strong extra-systoli (or PVC, I think), from time to time. It's scary, you feel like if your heart would stop and a quick but strong pain with it. I had already asked myself if there could be a relation. But I, kind of, learned to live with that, like with BFS.Today, however, I was really frightened: after a brief (and not too tough) walk on the mountain, when going down (fortunately my wife was driving), I felt, not one, but a series of extra-systoli which seemed not to stop and gave me a feeling of weight and discomfort in the chest; it took some 10 seconds, it stopped for a while leaving me with the tightness in the chest and then it came back. I was really frightened, and I really had the feeling of going to die. I was so sure of death that I was at the same time scared and calm, like if I probably just had to say farewell to my wife and daughter. I never felt that before. My wife was driving like a crazy down the mountain, where there's a town with a (good) hospital, but I decided to call our equivalent to 911, she stopped, and they took me to the hospital. After having made all the tests, my heart was apparently ok, with no signs of anything abnormal. And I came back home.Anyway, just to say that, if there's no apparent cause for this scary stuff, maybe it could have a relation with BFS. But how? How can it affect the heart dangerously?Replies welcome!Carlos
 
Are you sure it was your heart? I've had twitches like that off and on for 2 years, and it always turns out to just be a chest muscle. I've had a full cardio workup and everything, and they tell me it is nothing more sinister than a chest muscle twitch. That could be what is going on with you.
 
I have had similar sensations to this.The one night i even thought i was going to die during the night but this sensation or twitch does not happen very often.
 
I've had heart palpitations since I was 18. Every male in my entire family has had them as well. That predates my twitching by about 15 years or so, so I'm not sure that it's related for me.
 
Hi Carlos!I also have BFS and have for the last months wondered the about the same possible connection. I sometimes feel like the BFS attacking my heart the same way as another muscle. The feeling and the rhythm is the same. Sometime my BFS hits the same muscle group for several days in a row. This was also the same when I for several days had extra systoles and tackycardia (which the doctors called it) I believe that there is a link between fasciculations and abnormal heart beats. Nice to hear that others have the same feeling. Cheers Jones
 

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