Can welding affect your heart? Got a little nervous

[sportbike]

Dude, go get checked. You may be experiencing the pre-symptoms of a major heart problem. Maybe not.

There is never a time where you are supposed to feel "MAJOR" tightening of your chest, along with a feeling of an erratic heartbeat.

GO see a doctor and get checked out. You may be fine, but then again, you may have an issue starting that can end up either being fixed before it causes a problem, or fixed like the 38 year old you mentioned...

[DaveO]

Totally agree with the "see a doc" advice. If the doc says "healthy" then you need other evidence, maybe an EMF meter to see what the local emf is, and whether it's within the normal range when the welder is cranked up. Who knows, the machine may have an electrical fault that's browning out the neighborhood or interrupting radio and TV broadcasts without you knowing it. Did anyone else feel affected, or did TVs and radios act funny while you were welding?

I don't know where you'd get an EMF detector. You can get them on Ebay but they say "ghost and paranormal detector" and "just like on those TV shows" so those particular models would be good paperweights or wheel chocks. Got any friends at the power company?