Daren't take my pulse!

[Wills]

Hey people,

First of all, thankyou to anyone who i've have talked to...everyone's been great!

I have a real fear of my heart just stopping and i often get palpitations..sometimes ectopics but also just random beats that I can feel in my chest! does anyone else get those?? Im also feeling really faint alot, even when i am not hyperventilating which is scaring me lots!

Anyhoo, I am desperate to be able to feel my pulse whilst i get these so I can see if it's irregular, but i just daren't do it!! evry time i go near it my heart skips a beat..its awful!! has anyone else this fear or advice on how to get over it!?

Hope everyone is getting on ok,

Will x

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[nomorepanic]

Loads of posts on this one for you Will

Palpitations
Palpitations (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/NMPcms.php?nmppage=palpitations)
palpatations (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2284)
Missed heartbeats! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3186)
sorry for being silly....but.... (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3320)
Palpitations? Reassurance needed and some answers! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3371)
Missed heartbeat question again (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3550)
IS THERE ANYMORE I CAN DO???? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3784)
ectopic heart beats (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4664)
Doc made ectopic fear worse (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4849)
missed heartbeats, still worried (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5061)
Skipped Beats (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5078)
Heart reassurance (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5282)
New to site.....Palpatation freinds!!!!! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5204)
STILL SOOO SCARED OF MISSED HEARTBEATS-LOADS AGAIN (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5404)
Multiple Skipped Beats (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5424)
Skipped Beats AGAIN!!! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5639)
Obsessed with my heart (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6535)
Palpitations (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7258)
Eptopic Beats..im sorry please help..xxxxx (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8055)

Ectopics – doc reassured
Been to doc's about ectopics (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8316)
Heart Results - ectopics and dizzyness (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8474)

Have a read and you will see you are not alone

Nicola

[jackie]

will you are not alone, the fear is keeping all this going

take care and know that we are all going through this

jackie

[Daisybun]

Definitely not alone, heart racing and palpitations whenever I get panic, or just feel anxious, or sometimes for no reason.

Take care
Daisybun

'This too will pass'

[marie ross]

Hi Will

I had exactly the same problems as you, racing heart, palpitations and they did scare me to death, i used to be scared to go to sleep because i thought i would'nt wake up in the morning!!! I just thought that my heart would stop beating and whenever i tried to take my pulse i could'nt find it. After a while of thinking i was going mad or going to die, i realised that i was still here, alive and well and i stopped dwelling on my heart all the time, and now i don't notice them any more.

Take care.

Marie XXX