skipped heartbeats

[bridgehorse]

hello, since 2004 i have been having skipped heartbeats..it's weird because sometimes it goes away, like recently i have not had any for 4 months, then it comes back again like recently..it happens mostly in the morning, and does not happen at night...sometimes when i brush my teeth it happens, when i shower etc...when i feel skipped heartbeat it stops then it either goes faster or stays slow after the skipped heartbeat.. i dont have any symptoms associated with the skiped heartbeat like chest pain, dizziness etc..why does it leave and then come back again after months?  do skipped beats mean there are clogged arteries or heart issues?  i do not have caffeine and i am a vegetarian on a meditteranean diet..i use olive oil, flax seed and have alot of  fresh garlic everyday..i also have co-enzyme q-10, 400 mg everyday...i am thinking that since this is NOT  a stable skipped beat issue that it might be just anxiety and neves etc..i dont know..but i know i am healthy with good cholestrol levels and blood pressure..i do drink red wine on the weekends however..i take enough potassium and i take l-carnitine and b-complex as well...sometimes the skipped beats go 3 or 4 times in a row then go back to a normal bpm of 68-72...i rarely get fast heartbeats, only if i drink red wine.

i will be 42 in june...i would greatly appreciate any answers that you can give me..thanks alot..

dan white
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[jylcat]

I've also had the same thing, where I get PVC's for a while (a few weeks or so) and then they go away for months and then come back.  My cardiologist says it's nothing to worry about, and I've gotten kind of  blown off about it, but when I have them, they can be pretty frequent (every 2-5 minutes) and it's halfway between scary and annoying.

[Urssy]

Looks like it was lost somewhere. I'll try again later.

[Urssy]

Hi, not sure if my post went through, I don't see it on the forum here. Does it take awhile to show?
Thanks Urssy

[talylor]

Momto3girls...I know I need to trust the docs and the results and I know when those thoughts come to me, they are not rational, I know when I think "they are missing something, they are not listening to me, they dont know what they are doing", is not helping me heal and get past this and relieving the stress on my life and body which is probably not allowing these beats to go away. I am doing my very best to deal with these. I actually have stretches of some pretty good days cause I only get the small ones and I have become used to them by now (hate them but I can let them pass). However, if a strong one hits, I am still started and upset. This forum has helped me realize I wont be harmed by them, but mentally, I havent found a way to cope with them yet.

[talylor]

I have read up on costrochrondritis. Line, what you said was exactly what I feel, pain, tightnest, tenderness on the sternum above the breastbone and on the lower left rib cage, right under my breast. If I touch these areas they are tender. My doc told me the same thing, if it hurts to touch it, its not heart related. I didnt think costrochrondritis could last this long and my docs never mentioned it to me. Nor have them mentioned fibromyglia.

These areas get worse with activity and it always makes me a little nervous cause I think maybe it will bring on a PAC or PVC cause who knows what the heck triggers these damn things. Still my doc said my holter showed the PAC and PVC but in a completely benign setting. Wasnt getting them alot at all in his reading but to me, 66 PAC and 22 PVC and I tell him I get feelings throughout the day (I wrote on my event log for the monitor 47 events)so go figure.

Momto3girls...I know I need to trust the docs and the results and I know when those thoughts come to me, they are not rational, I know when I think "they are missing something, they are not listening to me, they dont know what they are doing", is not helping me heal and get past this and relieving the stress on my life and body which is probably not allowing these beats to go away. I am doing my very best to deal with these. I actually have stretches of some pretty good days cause I only get the small ones and I have become used to them by now (hate them but I can let them pass). However, if a strong one hits, I am still started and upset. This forum has helped me realize I wont be harmed by them, but mentally, I havent found a way to cope with them yet.

[line]

Thanks so much Connie for the reply, I have now have a better understing of what is what. I thought one was skipped beats the other like a tacky thing going on.

Tlylor, I have fibromyalgia and cosochrondritis and get this pain and shortness of breath. With fibro you will find sore spots on your chest, with costo you will find sore spots along the sternum and along the edges, also between the ribs. If you check yourself for these spots you sure will know they are there. They are both aggrevated by repitition, my Dr. told me if you find these spots it is muscluar or the costro becaue you cannot reproduce heart pain. with these syndromes you can reproduce the pain, ouchie.

Linda