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Odd heart rhythm fluctuations/t wave peaks? (Video inside)

Hey everyone! First time posting here. I'm male and 20 years old, and I've had a history of weird heart palpitations. I was diagnosed with a benign heart murmur when I was 10 and I recently had it checked up on, they had suspected that I'd grow out of it but I still have it. For more details, I'm very thin and I can usually feel every heartbeat. So it's easy for me to notice when it's doing odd stuff. For the past two years I've gotten occasional huge palpitations that hit out of no where, feels like a fish flopping in my chest and it almost throws me to the ground.

More recently I've felt extra thuds in my heartbeat several times a minute. From my research it sounds like PVC's. I've had an echocardiogram done in Columbia, SC. They said everything checks out structurally and my ECG was alright. But I've had a hard time believing nothing's going on when I get the complications I do as often as I do.

Often I feel the anticipations of my heartbeats. Almost as if there's a lot of pressure between heartbeats or as if my heart wasn't going to beat again. Sounds odd but that's the best way to describe the sensation. I also feel like there's a water balloon right at my bottom left rib cage in the front of my torso. As if it's heavy or full of fluid. Again weird description but it's hard to put these sensations into words.

When I had my largest episode, I had what I've been calling a pvc that was so strong it threw me to my knees and I went to the ER shaking. Literally thought my heart was going to stop when it happened. It had been having extra thuds and flutters that entire day leading up to it. They did blood tests and saw my potassium was really low, and immediately said that had to have been the cause. They put me on supplements for about a week and I feel like it helped but I still noticed small palpitations.

Since then I've noticed it does get worse when I haven't eaten for 4+ hours, if I feel at all dehydrated, or if I haven't slept enough. But I do get palpitations regardless of those factors, they just worsen with those things.

Today I used one of these portable oxygen/heart rate reader things, and noticed my heart beats looked odd. All my family had pretty smooth slopes on their heart beat and it looks like I have a t wave peak of some sort? Unsure of what it is exactly. I filmed it and attached a link at the bottom of the post. There's other odd changes throughout the video, watch it all the way through if you can please. Really curious if this can help anyone get an idea of what I could have going on.

Sorry for such a long post, just really wanna get some answers and I wanted to provide all the info I could even if it sounded weird. I can't thank you enough for helping me out!

Here's the link to the video, ignore the audio by the way!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yesmx4sivusd7n5/Video%20Jun%2018%2C%207%2022%2004%20PM.mov?dl=0
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