Don't be proud dudes...........you might have symptoms that turn out to be masking as heart problems but actually are something else, and learning about that is NEVER a bad thing. I had weird stuff going on years ago.....fluttering, what I thought were missed heartbeats, chest pains......turns out I had a bad hiatal hernia. The symptoms are very very close but why add to your stress in the "what the hell is wrong with me" category? I know what I have, I control it with less caffeine (you'll never see me grabbing a coffee after 11 AM), less spicy food (okay, thai and Indian food are addictions I have learned to live with ).

A good bud was just having identical symptoms and he was diagosed with work-related panic attacks. He knows what they are now. Why live in fear when the worst thing you can learn is you have stress that you need to control as much as possible?

the only thing that matters in life is.....life. Ego has to go out the window. As I write this, my dad and mom will be returning from a dream vacation to the Meditteranean that was cut short by a serious bout of his atrial fibrillation. He got to see almost none of what he dreamed of (although, thank god, he saw the Vatican before this happened, a lifelong dream of that militant catholic dad of mine...... ) and his vacations must now all be close to home.

If you dream of travel, do it before you get so old you are tied to a fistful of meds and a doctor's care.

great post Vince...........probably the single best one ever done on this board.