Having Palpitations are they OK!!!!

[slyder13]

I just out of the blue started having the sensation of having skipped heart beats.  I'm 30, slightly overweight, but active.  I recently changed my diet cutting out all the unhealthy stuff salt, caffeine, beer, etc.  I also got personal trainer to help work off the extra weight and get in better shape.  About a month in a half into the program they started.  Just out of the blue.  I've been to the Dr. who has performed an EKG, Eco, and 24 hour holter and he said everything was fine, that nothing showed up.  He doesn't seem worried but to be safe he scheduled me for a stress test. On bad days I get maybe 40 or 50 of the missed beats, better days maybe 20.  What scares me is it just started one after noon and hasn't stopped since.  Any advice?  Should I be worried?  What do you guys think the chances it will stop?

[sb786]

Hi there, I too get the "missed beats" and after having numerous heart tests i've been told they are not dangerous and that everyone gets then some people get more than others. Like you i can get about 50ish on a bad day. I also just suddenly got them one day and have had them since.

[abl]

Hi Slyder,
Since they can see no reason, please google magnesium deficiency heart palpitations.  Also, write down your typical foods, and see if you are even getting any magnesium in your diet.  Sweating, among other things, increases the depletion of Magnesium, and just so you know, that can be all that is causing your heart to skip beats.  In fact I will include a page for you to read that I just sent to my father.  So, get a high quality calcium/ magnesium supplement, and a multivitamin with Iodine in it.  I have one that has 225 mcg's of Iodine in it.  So, look for something like that.  And of course start adding a lot of healthy magnesium rich foods to your diet... Organic whole grain breads and cereals, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, black, kidney, or navy beans, halibut, and cooked spinach, or organic leafy green vegetables.  By the way, I mention teh Iodine, because if your thyroid is a little out of whack, and you are already eating all of those foods with Magnesium in it, your thyroid could be teh culprit.  Your thyroid needs the right amount of Iodine in it to stay healthy, and since you have cut out salt, you might want to know, that is how we American's get 70% of our Iodine, from iodized table salt.  I didn't know this, and now I have a goiter!  If, only I would have known!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Anyhow, if you want all of teh magnesium you are putting in to be absorbed, you want your thyroid to be getting what it needs too, so it won't sabotage the new good that you are doing!!!

Keep up the good workouts and taking good care of yourself, and let me know if this gets rid of your problem!  Happy reading, and there are a ton of articles, I just wanted you to have a reference as to how long it took someone after supplementing for all of teh heart palp's to go away!!!!!!!!

Good luck to you!

abl

http://www.ctds.info/heart-palpitations.html

[eagerheart]

You've described it very well, the fish on the dock, the vague uneasiness, the free fall. It's exactly like that. Thank you for these images. It makes me feel less alone.

[slyder13]

It describes it a little but, more like a missed beat.  Thing that scared me most is it just started one day.  No real easing into it.

[Smitty150]

My sustained AF sometimes feels like my heart is a fish
flopping on a dock. At other times, there is no sensation in my chest, just a feeling of vague uneasiness.

However, when the heart "launches" an episode of AF, my
heart feels exactly like it would just after slamming on the brakes and almost hitting someone. It goes in to a momentary and very rapid "free fall."

In fact, it is the exact defintion of "my heart sank"
when some people describe a big emotional wallop. I wonder if this is anything like your irregular beats.

[eagerheart]

You are right to call them "a sensation of skipped beats" because the heart does not skip a beat, it pauses briefly after beating an extra beat in the atria, which you will not feel in your pulse. Yes, I have them, and I found them highly disconcerting at first. Like you and many other fellow sufferers in this forum, I went through the intolerable anxiety and all the tests that are currently given, but if that's a consolation for you, I found that i am even healthier than I thought. So that's a good thing. I am highly suspicious of doctors who want to give drugs or perform an ablation without looking at the lifestyle of the person. I am also making healthy changes which for me came about because of my arrhythmias. I'm not out of the woods yet, but I feel I am going through a clearing right now. At least I hope so.

[slyder13]

I hope so.  It's been a long 3 weeks and know from what I've read there folks alot worse off but it's still tough.  Do you have problems with this?

[eagerheart]

It seems like your body is going through an adjustment period with all the healthy changes you're doing. Go through your changes a little more slowly. Your heart is likely to adjust. From what you are describing, it sounds really benign. It is very scary at first. Luckily you have a doctor who has not scared you needlessly.

[Smitty150]

I'd say to stick with what the docs tell you so long
as you have confidence in them. Maybe you want a second opinion.

There are many arrhythmias and many causes. If they trouble you, then pursue an answer.

For now, it doesn't seem the docs think you are in any danger but the stress is sometimes overwhelming.