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Symptom: I feel a flip-flop sensation in my chest like air bubbles are in it. Then, the sensation of the air bubble coming up my throat. Then an urge to cough. Then it's over. It happens only once about every 2 to 3 weeks.

If it is also burning, then it is acid reflux
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/reflux_disease_gerd/article_em.htm

If you eat a bunch of fryed, fatty, spicy food, and it is acid reflux, just try to cut out some of those things and see if it helps.

Thanks but I ended up in the hospital last night. It turned out to be "Atrial flutter" due to too many stimulating foods such as chocolate energy bars. I thought kicking the caffeine habit was enough but I didn't realize chocolate products contain caffeine as well. This physician told me that a "lot" of problems people have are dietary related. People just don't realize that certain foods have drug properties. Last night was a bit much and really scared me and interestingly I had one of those energy bars in the evening in place of dinner. It was an organic chocolate brownie bar. Indeed it did give me energy but something else later on. I think that if I were the kind of person who did street drugs like coke or some other stimulant, I'd probably die from cardiac arrest.

Chocolate and tea have more than caffeine - they have beta-adrenaline agonists, which are the opposite of beta-blockers.

you might hyper sensitive to caffeine..

Wow, glad you are okay, you didnt make it sound like that big of a deal, and you didnt mention your heart, that is why I said it might be acid
I am also way sensitive to caffeine. If you kick the caffeine and you are feeling the heart flutter again, make sure you go back!! ! The atrial flutter is usually your hearts way of evening out its rhythm (sort of like resetting itself) from the caffeine rising your resting heart rate threw the roof. But if you still have it after you kick the caffeine then something else is going on.

If you don't mind, can you tell me a bit more about those two betas? I know that beta-blockers are used in psychiatry!...which surprised me. There are quite a few cold remedy meds that one can't use if they are taking beta-blockers. I always thought these were only heart meds. I wonder if the agonists can actually "bring out" a mental disorder? I can't eat refined sugar because it makes me nutz. Not nutz like energetic nutz. I get mental confusion and extreme depression to where I can't even recognize my own home as being mine.