missed heartbeats

[loll]

Hi for about 6 yrs now i have been having missed heartbeats i can feel my heart stop and then get a big thud in my chest which gives me a head rush and a kind of sensation in my private area there is nothing in particular i do to get these i could just be sitting quiet and they will happen i can go a day with only 1 missed beat and another day it could be several my dr has put me on beta blockers but they dont really help they are called sotalol does any one else get the same symptoms as me i dont get a fast heart rate when they happen

[nomorepanic]

Hi and welcome aboard.

Have a read of this on the website ....

Palpitations (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/NMPcms.php?nmppage=palpitations)

Try these previous posts....


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)


Nicola

People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel

[trac67]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum, you will get a lot of good advice here and make some new friends.

Take care

Trac xxx

'Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain'

[lin]

hi loll

I get the same, l too have had them for 6yrs only the other night while watching tv had them for no reason it lasted for aleast 15 minutes i had to move around so they would go.

Some days i may only have the odd one or two other days i have loads.
There are lots on here with the same so you are not on your own.

Try not to worry to much i know it's hard not to.

linda xx

[manmoor]

Hi Loll,

A big warm welcome to you.

Take Care

Mandyxx

[jodie]

hi


i am another one who getts missed beats
i get them every day some days more than others i have had tests done and all came back ok but still io stress about them and that makes them worse i know people say if you think about them to much they happen more .
i know how hard it is to not stress when you get them as they do scare you.

jodie xx

[matt1981]

Hiya! and welcome theres all sorts of people on here with different anxieties theres many people just like you welcom and take care

matt xx

[toto]

Hi, I'm new to this site and I'm amazed and comforted by the huge number of people who get the same symptoms as me of missed heartbeats. I've been getting episodes intermittently for about 10 years but this past Xmas week has been the worst ever. Constant missed beats in patterns of couplets or triplets for all my waking hours. Its made me obssessed about my pulse and its ruined my holidays. I feel totally wrecked. My GP has started me on Citalopram 10mg and says it may be related to my menopause but I think its anxiety induced as I have a very pressurised job and Xmas week was hugely pressurised, but maybe I don't cope as well as normal because of my irregular hormones. God knows! All I know is, I've been told time and time again that they're benign and I'll not die just yet. Its hard to accept this as a comfort. Big Xmas dinners don't help either..or the alcohol!!!
And I've lost my sense of humour too!! My poor family are keeping low profiles.
I'm 48 and I have never been like this before...its a total shock.

Thanks for letting me offload...feel better already :)

Toto

[loll]

Hi thanks to you all for replying i thought i was the only one who had them glad to know im not the only one thanks again[:O]

[MGBreva]

Yep Loll, me too. Had missed beats BAD for several months recently but semmed to have calmed down now. Had lots of test at hospital but not probs. Part of my anxiety probs etc.... I guess. i know its not easy but do try not to focus on then they only get worse when you do. By the way specialist told me they are not actually missed beats but an extra beat with another, so its like 2 beats together and with a pause as the heart goes back to normal rythm, and very common actually and benine. so try not worry

all the best

MGBreva:D

[xBettyBoopx]

Hi there Loll and all

I too have these and have had them for about 30 years, I was very anxious about them when I first got them, but when I was told what they are I lost my fear of them (Good job 'cause I have so many other symptoms that freak me out, lol). They are called extrasystoles and anyone can get them even healthy people, of all ages. I usually get up and walk around and burp (lol), I think that it might have something to do with wind around the heart like indigestion, please take it from me they are not harmful, if they were I wouldn;t be here now after all this time, but I know they are upsetting especially when you get them one after the other, it feels worse than it is. I hope this helps you.

Take care

Elspeth;)

[ricochet]

Hi Loll,

i also suffer from missed heartbeats and thumps in my chest , only a few times a week though. I have only suffered this for about 4 months and its horrible when it happens scares me badly and sometimes leeds to a full blown panic attack. Been on a beta blocker called atenolol for about the same amount of time for something other than missed heartbeats, maybe thats why i only get a few a week, i thought it was tablets at first giving me these thumps but a cardiology doctor told me it was not.

Anyway all the best for the New Year , hope it brings an end to your long suffering.

Richard xx

[Stu M]

Hi Loll,

I also get these skipped beats a lot, pretty much every day :(

They are very annoying and can be very scary, I do sympathise with you and hope you can try to ignore tham as much as possible.

I also get them whilst exercising, or carrying things, which scares me even more!!!

Keep Smiling

Stu

[toto]

I'm interested in what people do when they get their ectopics. And of the people who have spoken to their GP's, what was the outcome.

I hope this doesn't sound too nosy, only, sometimes I feel like I've done everything that I know that I can do and I still get them! Also, my healthcare people are just not interested. My Cardio-consultant just shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't have any answers apart from that they were benign and no suggestions as to how to treat them. I came away feeling like I was a total idiot.
At least my new GP is trying something else. Day 6 on citalopram and apart from the light headedness they seem to be working a bit.

Toto

[TheGreatPretender]

hey there
I used to get this sort of thing ,missed beats (palpitations)i think.
This happened maybe only 2-3 times a week when i was having alot of anxiety (6 years or more). Been seeing and hypnotheopist recently , my anixety has cleard up mostly now:) also no more dodgy ticker and sleep paralysis.
hope in some way this helps :D:D

[kittykat]

Hi Loll ,

I get these regularly, had them for a while , never seen anyone about it but i guess if it was seriuos after this length of time i would't be here, these do seem to be a common symptom of anxiety. Hope you feel better soon.

Take care xx

[fisher]

hi dont worry hun, it sounds just like what i have had for years, i am 33yrs old, when i was 28 i went for an ecg because i kept complaining to the doctor something was not right, my ecg results showed something on them so i went for tests, i had a chest xray, heart scan, 24hr tape, an ecg again, my results said i had ectopic heart beats, they said dont worry, so when i started with anxiety when i was 30 i went private to see a cardiologist because i thought with my heart going fast it was doing something to my heart, anyway he said it was normal, my feelings when i get my ectopics are like my heart stops and then bangs against my chest, or its like your heart doing a somersalt,and then in november i went to see my new doctor and i explained i was getting these ectopics regular for the past few days he said nothing to worry about, i have seen a cardiologist and he put it down to anxiety, but it was getting worse so i went to see a cardiologist private, he said when he done the ecg it only showed sinus rhythum, and everything was fine basically you have to live with ectopics, but it still doesnt reasure me, i still think i have got a bad heart x i must be mad because i have been tested and i am fine, hope you are ok x