Palpitations and exercise itch

So I am an 18 year old college student (freshman). I used to exercise regularly in high school because I was on the football team. It seemed every summer before school started I would get alot of heart palpitations (never during exercise) but they would eventually go away. I have had 3 different EKGs and 2 echocardiograms (one was a stress echo) and everything has been normal except I have had an intermittent right bundle branch block show up on one EKG a couple years ago, but I was told it was nothing to worry about. So the past few months I have hardly been exercising as much as i used to, and i noticed sometimes if I am riding my bike or skateboard i will get a heart palpitation and then my upper body (chest back and arms mostly) will start to itch, with a sort of prickling/stinging sensation that goes away after i stop exerting myself for a while. I seem to be very sensitive to heart palpitations, and I am probably a stress case about this because my brother was born with congenital heart defects, but I checked otu fine as a child and during  high school when i had the EKGs and echocardiograms. The itching sensation is new tho. I never used to get it. Could it be related to palpitations (which i almost never used to get during exercise)? or is it all stress? or because I havent worked out nearly as much as i used to. The itching and palpitations dont always happen together. IT seems like i have the itching sensation alot now when i do cardio, but the palpitations are definitely few and far between.

[IaneFortin]

Hello Looper,

First I would recommend seeing a cardio. about the itching sensation you are experiencing to see what may be causing it. Is it related to your palpitations, maybe, but I would try to no give it too much thought until you start getting some professional examination. I have recently noticed more and more each day that just thinking constantly about a certain medical problem that it seems to be more constant and bigger then it really is.

Unless you doctor recommends to stop exercising, I would keep going to keep you in shape and to make your body work out what-ever problems if can on it's own, as for the rest, the specialist will steer you in the right direction.

Iane