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Constant palpitations, quick question

Hi all, firstly thanks in advance for reading. Easiest way to describe this is roughly for 2 months I notice my heart feels like it beats really heavily or skips a beat when I'm relaxing or sitting still. I've had a resting ecg and 24 hour ECG. The resting showed the interval of blood leaving my heart I believe was 0.21ms where the recommended bracket is something like 0.10-0.20.
I have a pic of my 24 hour ECG... Can you all see if this looks suspicious as my local GP says it's nothing to worry about...?

https://ibb.co/eJUP45

Thank you!
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1807132 tn?1318743597
It basically is saying you are having some premature ventricular beats and that your heart rate is getting pretty slow at night.  Unfortunately you are not having enough of the premature beats, 193 for a 24 hour period, for a doctor to be too concerned. Do  you exercise a lot?  Males tend to have slower heart rates than females and exercising can bring it down more.  I don't know that 35 bpm is unheard of at sleep but it is pretty slow.  I would push sorting that out as opposed to the premature beats though it could just be reading slow because of the premature beats when it really isn't going that slow.  But if you are having symptoms of difficulty breathing or chest pain I would push your doctor to get a cardiologist referral.  Just to at least take a look at the slow rate.  
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