skipping heart beat when wake from sleep

[azamani]

hi ..
i start feel that my heart skip beating around 3 month ago. i already check my blood pressure (117/77)
i have 2~3 skip in minute around 30min a day(sometime it come 10 skip per minute around 5~7 minute only)... i -always have this skipping heartbeat when i wake up from sleep..
does anyone have same simptom like me??

now i have stop taking zoloft and the skipping heartbeat decrease a lot it only come about 2~3 time in week.(last time is about 4~5 time a week).is it right that i stop taking zoloft??.
age:26
-178cm
-115kg
-taking zoloft about 4 year
-have skipping heartbeat since 3 month ago.
-bp = 117/77 ~ 122/82

please help me...what i must do to have my normal life back...
sorry for my poor english...

[azamani]

owh thanks RNRina... i feel relief now.. about 4 hour ago i don't have any skipped hearbeat until now... maybe because i not think about it and my pvcs is gone...

[RNRita]

Hi there.  I get a lot of PVCs when I lie backward or on my left side, more than right.  That is because your heart cells are irritable and in both of those positions your heart is being touched harder by more organs. On your right side  there is less lying on your heart.  I know this sounds bizarre, but I am positive I am right.  Also, the vagus nerve innervates the heart and the stomach.  Different positions can cause different areas to become irritable. I am not taking the place of a doctor.  Everyone who gets these should be checked first, but once they tell you that your heart is normal (structurally) you can try to relax. And come here for encouragement.

[azamani]

salaam..

thank you whyman2010, will ask my doctor for that 24 hour heart monitor...
i already read about Anxiety(like jerry_nj suggest) and i discover that all my symptom related to Anxiety..hmmmm..
maybe i always feel depressed...

[whyman2010]

Salaam

You should ask your doctor for a 24 hour (or a week heart monitor). This is basically a strap with a mini computer around your chest which you strap on and the computer records your heart rythem.

I had this done for a 3 day period and the doctor saw the results.

Maybe a suggestion that you may give to your doctor.

[azamani]

w'salaam,
thanks for ur reply...
i already see my doctor, and do ECG.. but i dont have skipped heartbeat that time bcoz my blood pressure is high (148/90) that time i'm scared..haha
i always have skipped heartbeat while my BP around (115/75)

yesterday i take my zoloft(25mg) again and i not feel any skipped heartbeat..but when i check my heartbeat,it still have skipped..

i have take zoloft about 5 year... and i stop to take it last month bcoz i read that zoloft is trigger for skipped heartbeat..(i already have skipped heartbeat around 3 month now)

[whyman2010]

Salaam Azamani

Hope you're well.
I have the same problem. Whenever I lie down on my left hand side, I get a palpitition.
For this reason, I only lie on my right hand side.

Have you seen a doctor? Are you on any medication?

D not worry, my doctor said that the small palpition/skipped heartbeat is NOT dangerous...but you should see your doctor and speak to him.

Ma Salaam.

K

[azamani]

is my skipped heartbeat dangerous??
my symptoms is when i lying down lonely and feel want to hear my heartbeat,i will have skipped heartbeat after 5 minute...then i will start worrying..

what should i do to overcome this feeling??

[azamani]

thanks for ur answer jerry..

my heart rate when rest around 67~75 beat per minute..
yes i already read the side effect for zoloft..
last time i only take 25mg zoloft per days...

i found something new today...my heartbeat will become normal when i sit down or stand ..
so my heart just skip when i lie down(long period) or sleep...

i dont have other symptoms but skipping heartbeat...
& i easy to become worry ...

[Jerry_NJ]

Have you been checked by a cardiologist?  I know atrial fibrillation can case symptoms like you describe - usually with a elevated (higher) heart rate.  

The connection to Zoloft sounds like a possibility, but given you've taken that med for a number of years without any similar problems I doubt it.  Have you looked at the side effects for Zoloft?  

It could be a good idea to start taking an aspirin a day, but that should also be confirmed with a doctor if you do it long term.