Heart skips beat(doesn't matter what)

[Sagitarius88]

Hi I'm 25 years old female from London
Recently I ve been to a wedding in a such good happy mood and as soon as I walked in to the wedding hall my skips beats attack started and lasted me for few hours I would say nearly 2 hours
In the past few days I ve noticed doesn't matter what if I'm stresses if I'm tired if I'm hungry if I'm happy if I'm excited if I'm worried if I'm working if I'm relaxing even when I'm in sauna steam room, when I'm angry when I'm irritated
It's like there are always there
Now a days I feel like actually I think I will die from a sudden shock after these episode of skip beats
My cardiologist doing nothing
Last year they done a echocardiogram and a 24hr holter monitor was fine
This year they done one 48hrs one and one 7 days holter monitor and 24hr blood pressure monitor
Now my apt is in June
I'm only 25yrs I ve one child age 3 and as you can all imagine he is very naughty and hard work plus I work as well
These skips beats making my self confidence very low
I get scarred going different places that they might happen
I feel dizzy on some occasions
Why can't they find out what's wrong with me
I'm on very low dose of beta blocker
I'm so sad and depressed

[Sagitarius88]

I ve CBT sessions in past for 6 months in a row
That really helped me

[achillea]

Oooops, I'm not a great typist, and when I wrote "15 year old woman," I was of course aiming for 25, your age.  Indeed, women before the age of menopause have a safety advantage when it comes to heart health.

[achillea]

Strictly speaking, skipped beats are not really skipped beats; they are a type of ectopic beat

Ectopic means 'in the wrong place,' and in most cases, here is what that means:

There is a particular spot in your heart where your regular heartbeat is generated.  It is called 'The Pacemaker.'  However, every single cardiac muscle cell is capable of contracting all by itself, and in most people, now and then, a willful cardiac cell decides to fire off between regularly scheduled beats.  When that happens, the contraction is earlier than usual and very small, so small that you probably could not feel it with your finger on your wrist.

Then the heart says, "Oh, fudge, now I have to reset the beat."  So there's a slightly longer pause until you get to the next regularly scheduled beat, and because the heart's chambers are elastic, they get a chance to get slightly fuller with blood during this little wait.  When it's time for the regular beat, the heart then gives an extra-hard 'push' to boost out all the blood--and this is the scary ka-boom sensation that you (and I, and other nervous people here) feel.

This is actually normal in that pretty much everybody gets ectopic beats now and then.  The difference is that hypersensitive people are more aware of them, and are freaked out by them.  As dramatic as these things feel to you, they are by and large quite harmless.  In a 15 year old woman with a normal EKG and no risk factors, they are almost certainly totally benign, which is why your doctor was not worried.

No one really knows what causes ectopic or skipped beats.  Many people knock themselves out trying to find a particular cause, a particular remedy, something--anything--to eliminate them forever.  In general, that never happens.  It comes down to (a) understanding that you are actually physically OK when they occur, and (b) minimizing awareness of them.  There are some medications, either beta blockers or anti-anxiety medications, that can help.  A psychological approach called 'Cognitive behavior therapy' can be very, very effective.

Please google 'ectopic hearbeats,' and try to understand the explanations.  I realize this is difficult if you are already nervous, but it is tremendously helpful to know what is going on.

If your anxiety level is very high (and it sounds as though it is), you would benefit from talking with a therapist about this.  With your national health service, it should be possible for you to see someone, even though there might be a wait for an appointment.

[Sagitarius88]

They said ecotopic beats not a skip beat which really put me into a shock
It's bisprolol 2.5

[Jerry_NJ]

As you've been on a heart monitor a couple of times and you appear to have these hear symptoms often, they must be on the recorder.  What did the doctor tell you about the monitor results?

Is it possible you didn't have the skipped beats while wearing a monitor?  How can that be?  Everything seems to trigger the skips.

What is the very low beta blocker?  In my experience low dose beta blocker, something well under 25 mg a day for the generic meds I have and do take.  In any case the BB should either make the attacks less often or milder or do nothing, not make them worse.