You always want to have anything to do with the heart checked out for sure.
However, the autonomic nervous system controls digestion and is connected to other functions such has the heart.
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Question:
I have suffered with IBS for 24 years. My question is what causes the following symptoms: Out of nowhere I start feeling very nauseated, then I start to sweat, feel faint, have heart palpitations, and have terrible stomach pains. Usually a bowel movement or just passing gas helps. Does the bowel pain bring this on? I've heard of many people that have the same symptoms.
Answer:
If a bowel movement relieves the discomfort, it is consistent with IBS. The likelihood is that at her age it would be IBS.
However, if this is an acute, or short-lived, intense type of pain, it might also be an intestinal infection. If it's been going on for several weeks or months, then it's likely IBS or another type of intestinal disease, such as Crohn's disease, or if there is blood in the stool it could be ulcerative colitis. But in young people those disorders have perhaps one-hundredth to one-thousandth the frequency of IBS.
The key element is that if it has been going on for a while without blood in stool or weight loss and you experience relief after passing gas or a bowel movement, it's most likely IBS.
Symptoms, such as pain, sweating, heart palpitations, and feeling faint are related to the exaggerated nervous system response to eating that occurs in people with IBS. --
Douglas Drossman, professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and co-director of the UNC Center for Functional GI and Utility Disorders. "
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/65/79521.htm
This is why you can get heart palpitations after eating.
again always have a problem with the heart checked out for sure.
Other people with IBS and dyspepsia or dyspepsia may get chest pains from esphogus. Called non cardiac chect pains.
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