I've had something similar other than the heart rate stuff, and like top comment says it was acid reflux. But if an irregular heart rhythm persists more than you have felt before, then absolutely go!
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I know its late for this but you can also start with Urgent Care. With insurance it could be a fairly cheap copay. They will advise on what to do next. You could have something like the flu (i had the flu and it fucked me all sorts of up) and theyd just prescribe you some medicine and rest
Urgent Care (or possibly insurance, I can't recall) will charge you more if they deem the situation "not urgent."
Yea likely insurance, but it would likely still be cheaper than an ER visit
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Yes. I personally wouldn't call a wee-woo wagon, but it's def not normal.
Consider going to a walk in clinic. If it's nothing serious, you pay 100-200 and you're on your way. If you go to the ER and it's nothing serious, your insurance may deduct you hundreds more (my ER copay is $500 and I have great insurance).
If it is serious, the walk in will tell you to go to the ER. In that case, the insurance may waive the ER copay. While it is true they can't deny you care, this system of expensive ER copay was presumably put in place to stop people using the ER to provide free care. Check your insurance policy (preferably before you get sick). I believe some places also have free clinics, but I would expect them to be pretty crowded.
Good luck OP. This sounds serious and you need to take care of your health. Try to find a way you can at least get some real qualified medical advice, even if you seemingly recovered this time.
Heart issues? Chest pain?! They're not touching OP with a ten-foot frog, straight to the ER is all they will say.
You're not wrong, but I would rather OP seek any qualified medical care than none, even if all they do is refer them to the ER.
Seek medical attention now!
Your life is worth much more than the price for emergency care <3
Seek medical attention now!
Yeah bro being alive is so worthy, who's going to pay for my landlord's vacations if I die? Who's going to slave away 12h a day lifting heavy shit 😢 Y'all can have this life I'll have the next one
Sorry bud, you only get one.
Thanks I didn't ask for it, I'm here involuntarily.
It is what you make of it.
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Might be a heart attack
Yup. Classic heart attacks symptoms for a woman, actually. But since they're ignoring medical advice I'm assuming they're a dude.
That last line hits so hard
Taxi to ER. No medical office will touch you having complained of, even mild, chest pain and a weird feeling heart. Been there, done that. Walk in the ER talking of chest pain, and say that first!, they will throw you in a room and attach an EKG. Been there, done that.
I don't mean to alarm you, but taken together those symptoms smell like a mild heart attack. By some voodoo I don't understand, the EKG can tell, even if the event is not happening in the moment.
I say no medical office will touch you, but first time my doc sent me to the ER, second time they whipped out a portable EKG. Times change, I may be wrong.
In my experience, taxi drivers will refuse to take customers to the ER due to liability concerns.
Uber and the like have specific warnings about that, too. Of course, you can just ignore them and say you're going to see someone else that's in the ER.
Do urgent care instead, if that's an option where you are.
Urgent care will just tell you to go to the ER if you come in with something potentially serious like chest pain. They're useless for anything but the most minor issues. They don't even do stitches or blood work.
Go to the ER. As someone with heart problems herself I always say that you only have one heart so I would absolutely get it checked out. At least get an ECG workup done. Nausea and vomiting alongside an irregular heartbeat can be a symptom of atrial fibrillation which would be confirmed with an ECG. I hate to worry people but the symptoms you mentioned can also be a sign of a heart attack and the longer that goes on the more damage this could be doing to your heart. Get to the hospital ASAP!
Sounds like heat illness. Did you sleep too hot?
So, are you still alive?
this could be a number of things, some of which can be fatal. lab tests or imaging for these things are cheap, but only available at hospital and what else do you expect from random internet people than "haul your ass to hospital and ask someone irl that actually knows"
Do you have any chest, arm or back pain? Do you have a pulse oximeter?
Can you go to a minor ER? If you hadn't said your heartbeat was off, I would say not necessarily a big concern at this point, but this also sounds similar to what happened to a friend of mine with an aortic dissection.
She thought it was food poisoning at first, finally went to a minor med, they refused to treat her bc her and sent her to the ER ASAP. She ended up in the hospital for several weeks.