Please help. Has anybody ever experienced this after cocaine use?

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First, let me give you a bit of background information. SWIM is a 21 year old male and I has been using cocaine for about 1 year. SWIM would consider his use as recreational. Over the past year there would be months where SWIM would not even touch the drug. Then, months when SWIM was using, SWIM would do about 6 lines on just one day of the week and wouldnt touch it for at least another week. However, this month, SWIM has used once a week for 4 weeks. This is where SWIM's problem started....

Last wednesday after being out almost all night using cocaine and drinking alcohol, SWIM came home and began coming off of the drug. The next day, at about 5 pm, SWIM's heart rate shot up without warning to 120 beats per minute. Needless to say, SWIM was freaked out but decided to wait it out and eventually it went down to 80 beats per minute.

However, every once in a while, SWIM will think about it and it can cause the heart to go back up to the 120 beats per minute. SWIM decided to go to the emergency room where they gave SWIM a EKG and did some blood and urine work. They said the EKG showed an abnormal rhythm with my heart. The blood and urine work actually showed up negative for cocaine and everything else just 4 days after having used.

SWIM left the emergency room with a diagnosis from the ER doctor. He said SWIM has heart palpitations. They also told SWIM that the effects of the cocaine could still be effecting SWIM's system even though blood and urine showed up negative for cocaine. It has been about 6 days since SWIM used cocaine. SWIM feels like I have swallowed a bunch of diet pills. I feel drained.

SWIM is hoping that his heart palpitations will eventually stop. If not, SWIM will be getting referred to a specialist to have an echogram done on his heart.

Please, if anybody has any insight on this matter, please help. Will SWIM's heart palpiations stop? Will the effects eventually leave his system? Did SWIM just get a bad batch of cocaine? SWIM is desperate for help.

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may want to edit "I" to swim in second sentence :)