Once in a while when I'm on Adderall, I'll get a random thumpy feeling in my chest. It's hard to describe and I'm not sure it's a heart palpitation. It's like I feel an weird sensation and then a thump and then I kind of wheeze for a second.

Is this a heart palpitation? Can you even feel a heart palpitation?

a palpitation by definition is the awareness of your heartbeat, it's mostly harmless. Even when your heart is pounding, so long as the timing is good, no arythmias, you're good.

Once in a while when I'm on Adderall, I'll get a random thumpy feeling in my chest. It's hard to describe and I'm not sure it's a heart palpitation. It's like I feel an weird sensation and then a thump and then I kind of wheeze for a second.

Is this a heart palpitation? Can you even feel a heart palpitation?

Heart palpitations are fairly common, and usually harmless. I get them sometimes and mine are diagnosed as Preventricular Contractions (PVCs), which are benign and supposedly harmless.

However, sometime palpitations can be cause for concern. You should consider seeing a doctor about them if they happen a lot or you sincerely have shortness of breath or other symtpoms with the palpitations. Monitor your heart rate and blood pressure. If these are abnormal too, you should get checked out by your doctor and a cardiologist just to be on the safe side.

You're probably fine. But again, if these palpitations are frequent or they occur with other symptoms such as shortness of breath, dizziness, etc., then definitely see your doctor to be sure.

Ideally everyone should get their heart checked out before taking Adderall imho. Knowing whether you have a structurally sound heart should be a requirement for prescribing Adderall. But that's just me.

Take magnesium. It helps with amphetamine tolerance, and regulating heart beat, and about 300 hundred other things. People with adhd usually are magnesium deficient anyway.

There is another thread where we discussed this a couple of days ago - maybe you can find some useful (and not so useful) info there :) There seem to be a lot of us with this problem. :o

The title is "why chest pains when medication leaves the body?" Here's the link:

http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50683

I've had the sensation you described (had it years ago, actually). Because I've got a pretty bad family history of heart disease (dad died at 38 of a heart attack), the doctors hooked me up to a monitor that I wore for a week, and whenever I sensed that feeling (including the sort of wheeziness you describe), I would phone in data from the monitor. Anyway, it turned out to be an extra beat, which (they told me at the time) was very common. I recall that sometime after that I began taking Calcium/Magnesium supplements and the fluttery sensation (how I would describe it) went away and never came back. That was probably 15 years ago.