4. Sensing your own heartbeats (palpitations)
Angina patients sometimes feel their own heartbeats, which may be distressing. We usually don’t feel our own heartbeats, and if we do, it means that there is something wrong with the rhythm of our hearts, a clinical condition known as “arrhythmia.” Arrhythmia may be triggered by a multitude of causes, and one of them is ischemia (decreased blood flow to the heart). When the heart can’t get enough oxygen, its electrical network of fibers starts to malfunction, which eventually causes beats to be irregular.
