I see that you posted your comments 2 years ago, so probably won't be checking back, but I will post anyway. I have had the same skipped beats while running. This could be due to many reasons according to the cardiologists, but I believe that mine are coming from the stimulation of my vagus nerve. The vagus nerve runs from the brain, past the heart, across the stomach and beyond. It has branches into the heart electrical system and can slow the heart rate. While running I would feel little pulsations on the top of my stomach which coincided with the skipped beats. I believe that the bouncing of my stomach when running was stimulating the vagus nerve, which effected the heart rythym. That was about 8 years ago at age 45. The condition has worsened to the point where many things can set off the arrythmia and it sometimes lasts for 24 hours. I hope that your condition doesn't progress from a few skipped beats to the long arrythmia episodes that I have, but there are treatments of which I am now pursuing. Since I may not check back to this forum if you (or anyone else) wants to contact me, my e-mail address is ***@****.
Robb
I am sorry to hear about your troubles Brian,
Your symptoms sound very similar to mine. I am very close to your age (I'm 22) and am relatively decent shape. In October I noticed my heart skip a beat and saw a cardiologist. I got an echo and a 48-hour holter and everything came back normal. I still had a great deal of stress about the skipped beats even though I was told everything was normal. I noticed that some days I would be walking a few blocks and I would feel my heart get into a strange rhythm. I would feel a skipped beat ever 2 to 3 to 5 beats or so. After sitting down and relaxing the rythm seemed to get back to normal. This concerned me so I went back to the doctor and got an event monitor. I captured these events on the monitor and the results came back to be normal. For a long time I was very convinced that the doctors kept missing something that was wrong with me. Now more and more I am convinced that these extra beats are almost completely due to me stressing out about my heart for no reason. I still notice them every day and I get concerned when I feel my heart flutter, but I have been getting a lot better at just ignoring them. I hope it gives you comfort to at least know that someone else is going through the same stuff you are. feel free to respond back if you have any other questions or to let me know what the doc said. Have a good wedding!