Hi, well, this is actually very common. I have this myself, and have for many years, along with PACs or PVCs for seemingly no reason. I've been checked out, and assured they are normal. After much research on the subject, I believe the following:
1. Being aware of skipped/extra/hard beats is related directly to the mental awareness of these events.
2. I have detected/heard, an even higher frequency of extra beats/flip flops than I have, in people I know, but they were completely unaware of them. Why? I believe it is due to us mentally fixating on them (possibly a result of anxiety and worrisome thoughts)
3. Noticing, or, the increased incidence of extra beats after a large meal, I believe, are related to some sort of gastric irritation, that may be, but I can't say for sure, related to 'bleed-over' of neural impulses that are normally contained within the digestive tract. Also, vagal nerve irritation may be involved as well. And remember, the brain can easily influence the vagal nerve, especially under certain conditions of awareness of it's functioning (either over-stimulation or under-stimulation suddenly become part of your conscious awareness)
4. Given the known facts that most people who notice skipped/extra beats/sharp chest pain/etc, also tend to display symptoms of anxiety, such as concerns of family members with heart problem, fear of death, etc, I think it's logical to say that you possess a unique ability to exercise at least some control over your own heart function.
5. Don't forget, your brain is very powerful, and can easily be responsible for not only weird heart symptoms, but also psychosomatic pains/ sensations elsewhere in the body. I know this from personal experience with anxiety disorder.
6. Notice this; you are checking your pulse all the time, checking for missed beats. With practice, you can easily train yourself to produce a skipped/extra beat every four beats, or, every ten beats, whatever you decide. Since I can do this, it means that many others can also, and it also means that it is entirely mental (when proper medical tests have already ruled out any true physical problems).
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2. Concerned, no, but it should be followed to make sure it doesn't become too large.
3. pvc's after eating are common and may be related to vagal tone. there is no test to show what the cause is and unfortunately there is no real fix for it either.
My wife was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome in 1988. Aortic dilatation is the major worry. Her's went from 4.2 cm to 4.5 cm over the last 20 yrs so the meds to keep her blood pressure low have done their job. If it did that over 6 months, it's time to monitor more than once a year. Before meds and monitoring many people with Marfan Syndrome passed away in their early 40's for enlargement of the aorta.
The monitoring they do on my wife is just an echo every year. Whenever it seems to have increased they do a CT with contrast to verify.
rmworrywart
Hi , I have the same for the last 5 years , a visited so many doctors , PVCs after food , high heart rate after food , all things been done all came normal , hundreds of ECG and ECG under stress , echoes , nuclear ECG under stress CT angio , you name it I did it allllll normal .
THE GOOD NEWS i think they know WHY am getting that after food ,
Always my blood sugar was in the normal range always , finally some one listened to me and did what they call a sugar tolerance and incline tolerance , the shocking news came out
My sugar was normal , but my insulin was
0 hour- 24 ,
1 hour -160
1hour and 30 -240
two hours- 340 ??!!!!
the normal should be not above 5 only
my new doctor who is professor and teacher in the medical school think 99% that what’s giving me all that with some gases in my stomach and colon
so good luck
i will keep you posted