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Skipped or Pause in Heartbeats
I have had numerous bouts recently with atrial Fib And have been in to see my physician. My physical went very well but he did detect a slight murmur and said I have a breathing arythmia. Meaning when I breathe my heart rate slow and speeds up! I have had an appointment with a cardiologist and he listened to me and thought it was a benign sort of thing! I am having a holter monitor put on tomorrow for 24 hrs. and thursday I'll have an echocardiogram done. My symptoms are sometimes a fast heart rate for me 90-100bpm..maybe 110. I experience missed beats or a pause in beats..right as I write this I'm getting 2-3 pauses per minute or so. I get tingling sensations in my arms and upper chest area. The feeling is scary as it happens alot at bedtime feeling a little like tightness or a muscle tightening in my left shoulder in the front. I have been able to put up with these episodes but they really bother me and sleeping is almost impossible.Can sleep deprivation make these worse? I have stopped all caffiene and alcohol...but still continue to have these almost daily..maybe more than once daily. What do you think I should do if all the tests come out negative? Should I proceed with more tests? Thanks for any input you can give me..
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Let me know how your doctor visit goes. Try not to worry, I've heard really active people have alot of wierd heartbeats. My doctor told me that because I am also very active. What kind of skips did you feel before you fainted?
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Let me know how your doctor visit goes. Try not to worry, I've heard really active people have alot of wierd heartbeats. My doctor told me that because I am also very active. What kind of skips did you feel before you fainted?
Yes i did feel the skips before it happened...I have never fainted in my life..so it was sooo scary...these started when i was 13..we just never really took them serious other than my first episode where i had super bad chest pain...i'm super active so my parents are afraid that it'll happen again and i'll stay out longer than a few seconds...have u read my 2nd post..this is my 4th..the other one on this thing is my 3rd the only one u haven't replied to? I explain things a bit better...i slept good last night knowing i was not an idiot for thinking i was gonna die in my sleep or in class or wherever thay happen..i never said n e thing to my doc cuz i thougt it was dumb...but i realize it's like a symptom. I have an appt. to see the doc in like a week so that's good my mom made sure i got one after i fainted...well thanx and God bless
Good luck to you Danni. You are way too young to be worried about these things. I was 17 when mine started so I know how you feel. I was afraid to go anywhere and it really disabled me just from the "fear factor" for many years. Don't let that happen to you. I'm 36 now and still here. I've never fainted from them. You should go back to the doctor to let him know what happenned. Maybe it wasn't even heart related. Did you feel the skipping before you fainted? If your doctor tells you not to worry after he runs all the tests, then DON'T. Try not to be afraid to fall asleep. All that fear just makes them worse. You will be okay. Stay in touch and let me know what your doctor said. You can e-mail me at ***@****.
I'm a 75 y.o. divorced, live-alone, sedentary male with hypertension and diabetes both controlled w/ oral medication. I have suffered the skipped beat -- followed by a whopper of a beat -- for the last 6 years with a recent period of remission of 2 years. That is until last night when trying to get to sleep: WOW, there it was again! I got up and took a mild anxiety drug: Xanax 5mg. and 2 Tylenol. I got a sound night's rest. That event precipitated my visit to this page.
During previous active sessions with this more-than-nuisance malady I saw the Doc, wore the holter, took the stress test, etc. I was assured, as most of you were, not to worry; which is a little like the alligator and the swamp anecdote.
I recently lost my full-time job, eliciting financial concerns. I attribute this new siezure(?) to $$$ envy. I have no idea what to do if these "attacks" continue other than to ignore them (ho, ho) or mix the Kool-Aide. As I have no Kool-Aide, I will attempt the ho, ho treatment. I have found that some sense of humor can help. I tell my friends that they should envy me: I am merely saving up the missed beats for when I really need them.
I doubt these comments helped anyone but me, and I appreciate this forum's existence for what therapeutical value it has.
Happy New Year to all.
Bob
During previous active sessions with this more-than-nuisance malady I saw the Doc, wore the holter, took the stress test, etc. I was assured, as most of you were, not to worry; which is a little like the alligator and the swamp anecdote.
I recently lost my full-time job, eliciting financial concerns. I attribute this new siezure(?) to $$$ envy. I have no idea what to do if these "attacks" continue other than to ignore them (ho, ho) or mix the Kool-Aide. As I have no Kool-Aide, I will attempt the ho, ho treatment. I have found that some sense of humor can help. I tell my friends that they should envy me: I am merely saving up the missed beats for when I really need them.
I doubt these comments helped anyone but me, and I appreciate this forum's existence for what therapeutical value it has.
Happy New Year to all.
Bob
I would like to thank everyone for submitting their feelings and problems. I has been so helpful to me. My heart arrythmia has seriously scared me and affected my life. I am 32 and just recently was diagnosed with SVT and a right bundle branch block that is incomplete. I have been having all sorts of strange episodes with my heart. The one that is the most disturbing is this feeling of pressure/anxiety that rises in my chest, and then a wave of feeling comes over me then there is a thump in my chest and its over. It almost feels like all the blood drains out of my head for a second and sometimes I can't catch my breath during the episode it feels like there is pressure keeping my lungs from expanding. Is this what a skipped beat feels like?
I am a runner, and was excercising regularly when all this started to happen. It started with one of these episodes and then an intense feeling of anxiety which I had day and night for a whole weekend, with shortness of breath and weird feelings in my chest. I feel that the anxiety feeling and the heart arrythmia go hand in hand. I also have had a significant change in my BM, and mild diarherra everyday since this started. My heart symptoms seem to get better when my BM becomes more solid. Has anyone every heard of that?
Those would be my two odd questions. I am so happy to have found this forum though. It is so comforting that other people have strange symptoms. My doctor also has told me not to worry about it, but when you are talking to someone minding your own business and all of sudden you feel like you are going to pass out...it does tend to throw you off for the day. Plus I am all shaky afterwords. Thanks for listening and thanks for talking.
I am a runner, and was excercising regularly when all this started to happen. It started with one of these episodes and then an intense feeling of anxiety which I had day and night for a whole weekend, with shortness of breath and weird feelings in my chest. I feel that the anxiety feeling and the heart arrythmia go hand in hand. I also have had a significant change in my BM, and mild diarherra everyday since this started. My heart symptoms seem to get better when my BM becomes more solid. Has anyone every heard of that?
Those would be my two odd questions. I am so happy to have found this forum though. It is so comforting that other people have strange symptoms. My doctor also has told me not to worry about it, but when you are talking to someone minding your own business and all of sudden you feel like you are going to pass out...it does tend to throw you off for the day. Plus I am all shaky afterwords. Thanks for listening and thanks for talking.
It's so helpful to read all your posts about skipped heart beats. I am 28 yrs old and these skipped beats were found on me since I was 21 yrs old. I don't really feel the skipped beats myself, not even when the beats skip once every 2-3 beats. However, I started to feel uncomfortable in my heart 7 months ago when I was under extreme stress and depressed. I was given medication (forget what are they) by my cardiologist for 3 weeks and the symtoms disappeared exactly the day after the 1st death anniversary of my dad.
Then everything looked OK until June when I went hiking w/ friends on a hot day -- 36C (96.8F). I had extreme palpitation -- 200+bpm and was admitted to the ER. I was OK after taking some rest and cooled downed. I went check-up w/ my cardiologist again and he didn't give me any medication, just reminded me not to place myself in such a stressful condition.
Another experience was in July this year after I drank 3 glasses of red wine. I've been a good drinker and could drink quite a lot. But this doesn't happen anymore after the 3 glasses, I got palpitation and was admitted to the ER again. I was OK after I rested for 30 mins or so. This time I didn't go check w/ my cardiologist again.
After all these experiences, I don't know whether I have panic attacks (in fact, I don't exactly know what panic attacks look like), or just afraid of experiencing the same thing like that after the hiking, or simply just the stress. I feel uncomfortable or kinda like short of breath after walking a certain distance esp. in high temp. But sometimes these uncomfortableness and/or palpitation appear after having dinners. Very often, they coincide w/ discomforts in my stomach too. I usually have minor diarrhea during/after these discomfort in my heart.
Is there anyone who have similar experience? I've read some posts here, knowing that many of you experience skipped heart beats or palpitation after meals. I may go see my cardiologist again and see whether he'll give me medicines for such discomfort. I am so scared that I will die anytime...
Thanks for listening.
Then everything looked OK until June when I went hiking w/ friends on a hot day -- 36C (96.8F). I had extreme palpitation -- 200+bpm and was admitted to the ER. I was OK after taking some rest and cooled downed. I went check-up w/ my cardiologist again and he didn't give me any medication, just reminded me not to place myself in such a stressful condition.
Another experience was in July this year after I drank 3 glasses of red wine. I've been a good drinker and could drink quite a lot. But this doesn't happen anymore after the 3 glasses, I got palpitation and was admitted to the ER again. I was OK after I rested for 30 mins or so. This time I didn't go check w/ my cardiologist again.
After all these experiences, I don't know whether I have panic attacks (in fact, I don't exactly know what panic attacks look like), or just afraid of experiencing the same thing like that after the hiking, or simply just the stress. I feel uncomfortable or kinda like short of breath after walking a certain distance esp. in high temp. But sometimes these uncomfortableness and/or palpitation appear after having dinners. Very often, they coincide w/ discomforts in my stomach too. I usually have minor diarrhea during/after these discomfort in my heart.
Is there anyone who have similar experience? I've read some posts here, knowing that many of you experience skipped heart beats or palpitation after meals. I may go see my cardiologist again and see whether he'll give me medicines for such discomfort. I am so scared that I will die anytime...
Thanks for listening.
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