Can You Exercise With Heart Palpitations? Safety and Next Steps
Can you exercise with heart palpitations? Find out when activity may be safe, when to stop, warning signs, tests, and how to return to workouts.
Heart Palpitations During Exercise: Causes and Warning Signs
Heart palpitations during exercise: understand normal heart-rate changes, possible arrhythmias, warning signs and testing for exertional symptoms.
Heart Palpitations and Feeling Faint: When Is It Serious?
DIZZINESS & BLOOD PRESSURE Heart Palpitations and Feeling Faint: When Is It Serious? Feeling faint with palpitations is more concerning than noticing a heartbeat alone because it can reflect reduced…
Heart Palpitations After Eating Sugar or Carbohydrates
AFTER EATING & DIGESTION Heart Palpitations After Eating Sugar or Carbohydrates Some people notice palpitations after sweet or carbohydrate-heavy meals. Blood-glucose changes, stimulants, anxiety or a coincidental arrhythmia can be…
Heart Palpitations After a Large Meal: Why It Happens
AFTER EATING & DIGESTION Heart Palpitations After a Large Meal: Why It Happens A large meal can make the heartbeat feel stronger or faster, but the sensation alone cannot distinguish…
Waking Up With a Racing Heart: Causes and Warning Signs
Nighttime, Sleep & Position Waking Up With a Racing Heart: Causes and Warning Signs A racing heartbeat on waking may follow a dream, stress, dehydration or sleep disruption, but recurrent…
Heart Palpitations When Lying on the Left Side: Why?
Nighttime, Sleep & Position Heart Palpitations When Lying on the Left Side: Why? Feeling a stronger heartbeat on your left side is often related to position and increased awareness, but…
Postpartum Heart Palpitations: Causes & When to Worry
After Childbirth & Heart Rhythm Postpartum Heart Palpitations: Causes & When to Worry A racing, pounding, fluttering or skipped heartbeat can occur after giving birth for many reasons. Sleep loss,…
Heart Palpitations When Standing Up: POTS, Causes & When to Worry
Why does your heart race when you stand? If your heart suddenly pounds or speeds up when you stand, there are several possible explanations. Sometimes it is the body’s normal…
Heart Palpitations During a Hangover: Causes & When to Worry
Alcohol, Hangovers & Heart Rhythm Heart Palpitations During a Hangover: Causes & When to Worry Alcohol can affect heart rate and rhythm during drinking and for hours afterward. A pounding…