Ongoing heart palpatations

[dancorleone22]

Hi everyone, I'm male, 23 and reasonably healthy, for about 5 years now i've been suffering with heart palpations. To be more specific my heart will occasionally skip a beat or do some kind of double beat, for years it really bothered me, i made several trips to the doctors, had two ECG's and a blood test, but nothing was found to be wrong. Over the years i've came to live with it and learnt that generally i think its caused by anxiety, stress and in some cases food/caffeine. Most of the time i try to not let it bother me, but it's always a niggiling concern in the back of my mind and i have been given no explanation by a doctor as to what it could be (even if it is just anxiety, that has not been suggested to me). I'm sure anxiety plays a big part but i don't think i can be the sole cause.

Anyway, over the past few days i've felt myself feeling quite under the weather. I've been feeling nauseousness, had hot flushes and random sharp short headaches, today it went a step further and actually got a little scary for me. I began the day feeling quite weak and my heart felt very obvious to me in my chest, i was very aware of its beating, but it wasn't beating particularly fast. It skipped a beat and i didn't think much of it and then it did it a few more times, at one point after a skip (which probably happened once every 3-4 mins) i would sometimes feel a sudden rush of blood around my chest, my face became very hot and i became instantly nauseous. I tried to calm myself down and it probably only lasted for about 20 minutes on and off and i spent the rest of the day just trying to be relaxed and calm.

What i want to know, if this is something to be worried about? Is my doctor right and it's nothing to be worried about, or is there some underlying condition that i'm perhaps making worse by thinking about it.

Are there any other tests i could request to have done to help put my mind at ease?

Thanks

[dancorleone22]

Thanks RnRita for the reply! I'll check the method you suggest

[RNRita]

If you have been checked out by your doctor and he found you cardiac healthy, then you are experiencing what most of us here have felt, at one time   or another.  I can tell you that I've had PVCs/PACs for over 30 years and have felt the gambit of symptoms.  There are times when I am SURE that it is what a heart attack must feel like....but then I live....again.

I know what you mean about waking up and being "aware" of your heart.  I always say it is where I know my heart will start skipping and doing fun things way before it actually acts up.  But then a lot of times I have the PVCs without any prior feelings.  I can say that after this long, I will NEVER be completely used to them, but there are some feelings that go along that I can tolerate less than others.

It is a day to day process.  Try the calcium/magnesium method.....it helps me.