Vicki
21-05-08, 22:28
Hi all, I'm quite new to the forums still, although I've been browsing for a while, and I've found all the information about ectopic beats and palpitations to be very helpful for me, as I have suffered from them badly for a couple of years. I've had a 24 hour ecg which detected one ectopic beat but it is the result of anxiety and not heart disease.
But that was 2 years ago and in the last couple of months the ectopics have got worse. I'm having them several times a day, the range from feeling a bit fluttery, to being a hard thump, once was so hard it was painful and I got so scared I went to A&E, but there was nothing wrong. They even did a blood test to check for hyperactive thyroid, which I don't have.
Thing is that today I just had one that felt really strange. It felt almost like the heart was sucking in rather than pumping out, if that makes sense. There was a weird kind of pain, but not a sharp pain, it was a sort of bruised feeling.
Now of course my heart is racing and I can feel that horrible nervousness and numb feeling in my whole body and I'm fighting a full-blown panic attack which is why I'm writing. And I've been feeling good today and the last couple of days so this has freaked me out quite a bit.
But has anyone else felt ectopics like the one I just described? And did anyone else go ages with them feeling a certain way and then suddenly get one that was different?
* scared * :(
But that was 2 years ago and in the last couple of months the ectopics have got worse. I'm having them several times a day, the range from feeling a bit fluttery, to being a hard thump, once was so hard it was painful and I got so scared I went to A&E, but there was nothing wrong. They even did a blood test to check for hyperactive thyroid, which I don't have.
Thing is that today I just had one that felt really strange. It felt almost like the heart was sucking in rather than pumping out, if that makes sense. There was a weird kind of pain, but not a sharp pain, it was a sort of bruised feeling.
Now of course my heart is racing and I can feel that horrible nervousness and numb feeling in my whole body and I'm fighting a full-blown panic attack which is why I'm writing. And I've been feeling good today and the last couple of days so this has freaked me out quite a bit.
But has anyone else felt ectopics like the one I just described? And did anyone else go ages with them feeling a certain way and then suddenly get one that was different?
* scared * :(