eptopic beats

[ashley]

Here i am again chattin about eptoic beats, well i cant stand them and they are scaring me so so so so much...please if anyone atall has any information on these, please let me know.... the thing that is worrying me so much is the fact i am getting them over and over and over all day ..like between 80-100 a day ..big thud in the chest and extra beat in throat..i hate them they scare me so so much.... and affect me mostly wheni want to realx,,, not that i can do that .


ash x

[Paddington]

hi ash,poor thing,how vile is that?i always call them palpitations,is what you get different it sounds the same?It is of course strees and as we overbreath we gulp down air wich bubbles about and we think our heart is playing up,it isn't of course,i know this sounds daft but have a glass of 'andrews'and see if you can burp,works 4 me!!Aso u could cool yorself down to slow your heart rate,plunge hands and arms into cold water 4 ten second intervals,this also helps general panic sympoms.God bless.Mary-Rose.xxxxxxxxxxx

[nomorepanic]

Ash

Have you seen the doctor atall about it as sometimes just a reassuring chat with a professional can ease our worries.

They won't harm you but won't go away whilst you concentrate on them and wait for them to happen.

Try to distract yourself whilst you are having them and keep busy.

Nicola

[ashley]

i Havnt really spoke to the doctor about them as i have only started getting them in the last 6 days ya see, after a month of 24-7 anxiety they just appeared.. had every other symptom with anxiety but not this one.
What do i say to the doctor ? he will just say its anxiety no doubt, which of course hope that it is.. but i have never had this eptopic beat thing, a palp , whatever it maybe..and my heart dosnt have to race with it, my pulse rate could be slow or fast ... so theres no particular pattern, it make sits own descions.
I know that thinking about it will make it worse nic,you are so right, chatting of it i shall have one in a min.
I want them to stop so bad, im obsessed with it- and this morning i had bad pains in my chest and my breathing was differcult.

how lovley huh.

ash x

[Paddington]

have you read the first steps intro to panic on the opening forum ash?It will put your mind at rest,this is fear of the symptoms that is making it worse.And i KNOWu cant help it sweetie we all been there honest,i do still get the chest thump,and it makes me jump out of my chair in a fright.Please try the fizzy drink,it just may help,it cured my Son completely!He suffered the most awful palps and chest banging,would panic[then i would panic,what are we like!]so Andrews to the rescue,huge burp and it would go!Hey cant hurt can it?Love Mary-Rose.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[ashley]

hay thanx fo that mary.i will go and but some tomorrow and see how if it works,i must say how bizaree.. but like you say it cant hurt can it.
They are so awful these eptopic heart beats, god know where i got them frombut i have had 6 long dasy and nights with them and personally i just want them to go ...my doctor has got fed up with men i went there today and he is going to send me to a specialist, well guess that cant hurt either.. i jst hope i dont snuff it,sounds funny dont it.. but i dont i love my kids ...

ash x

[molly15]

hi ashley sorry your still having a bad time.did you try taking the beta blockers.as nicola says the more we wait for them to happen they will keep coming bac.i no ive been ther try and really focus that they cant harm u it does take time but you can beat this.marciaxx

i have to do it for my kids if not for myself marciaxx

[ashley]

Hello sexy marcia

, i am so trying to think they cant hurt me...and i kinda convince myself and feel good that i say that to myself... thinking thats it ..they wont come back and then all of a sudden BANG one comes along again- my consience really knows how much they really bother me,well can you imagine i have never had themin my life until 6/7 days ago,they keep going on all day, sometimes more or less after each other.
Boy marcia you will get bored of meyou and jack...hi jack ...love ya bot.

Ive kept on so much that the doctor is sending me to a specialist,,,im scared now he has suggested that(cant win in ya mind can ya) but i

think its because i have drove them crazy at the surgery haha,,,, ohhhh bloddy hell aye, its embarrssing isnt it, but hay when it comes to my health concerns hay i dont care ,,,i will force meself down there.

When i have been to A and E in the past i have never said about my anxiety until after the examination otherwise they diagnose you then and there, how many other people have done that,im sure imnot the only one.

Quite honest im having a right ruff time of it, its awful and im scared.


ash x

ashley xxx

i have pm you x

[Paddington]

hey ash ,how you feelin today?I think the specialist is a good idea matie,will put your mind at rest of course they will have stopped by the time you see him[it happend to me i felt a right fraud!]My son [the other one,it runs in ths family]went to hosp this am convinced he was dying of a heart attackof course he wasn't!People dont understand how terriffying it all is ,these vile symptoms do they?Well they DO here.Thank God Aye.Dont be scared,it will pass.Easy 4 me to say i know,but i also KNOW that they will.God bless.Mary-Rose.xxxxxxxxxxxx

[Ma Larkin]

Hi Ash, I know you associate the ectopics with irregular heart rythmn, & irregular heart rythmn does exist hun, but it plays tricks on your mind so you sit there & notice every irregular beat, every missed beat, every beat in your throat until it becomes an obssession. I have an obssession with checking my pulse because of all these beats & pains. They are worse when you relax because you have more time to think about them & notice them. Ash, they are more common than you think mate. Also, our heart beats at different levels when we experience different levels of anxiety, which could be up to 50 times a minute because we get scared so our heart races, then it calms down, then we think its something else so it races again, & never is at an even keel unless we are asleep. I agree with the fizzy drink theory whether it be something like Andrews or even lemonade or something like that. It certainly helps me.

I hope you can find worsds of reassurance Ash, it really is quite a common symptom, but one of the most worrying with it being our heart.

Les.

[jodie]

hi i have just found this site (thank god)i get a jumping feeling in my chest its not a fast beat just one big beat a bit like a flutter .
i have had them for six years they have made life very bad i dont go out or anything i am always thinking about them .they started when my first doughter died i get very stressed and drive my hubby mad they are worse when my monthly is due or when i feel tired .i have had theem a lot lately i have just lost my parents this year to lung cancer whith my mum it was xmas eve which was very hard to try and be ok and happy with my 4 year old who thought santa was coming that night . i keep going to the docs they just say that these beats are ok wont kill me i am not sure just glad to talk to people who r the same as me

[ashley]

Oh jodie, i feel so sorry for you love you have really been through hell havnt you, what with ya daughter and ya parents you must feellike your whole world has fallen apart,im so so sorry that happened to you-.
Welcome to no more panic,the people on here are so welcoming, and caring and you can make some good friends love that are going through what you and i are every day.
As have properly seen with my posts my days are never boring, personallyi want boring back, i suffer badley.
The beats in your chest sound like mine,i think they all come down to the same thing love.. i can have up to 80 or more a day and they are so so nasty arnt they, they scare you and make you feel a nervous reck coz god knows thats what they have done to me- jodie i find this hard to say coz i know that in ayselfyou really think they can harm you ,,but you will find lotes and lotes of people that vist here daily and they are still alive... so you see that says something dosnt it.
I have had anxiety bad for 15 years on and off, but this time around is the mother of them all, and i am tangled up in the web of anxiety..jodie love you will be ok, everyone will really look after you here,you have come to the right place love.

ASH X

[ashley]

Mary and lesley had a really bad bad day mate, read my despartley seeking ashley page, hope you are both well, please share with me how ya feeling , take my mind of myself, for god sake...its doing my ehad in having this obsession with my self- oh and lesley i check my pulse constantley too,, ARRRRHHHH IT DRIVES ME MAD....IM JUST SO DOWN OF IT ALL XXXXX

ASH X

[jackie]

your an eiget . to suggest i lie to the doctors simply so that they will put me through my examinations. of course not.lol

deceitful woman!
jackie

[ashley]

hahah, you know what i mean dont ya jack... i dont mean to be funny but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do love... ant that right marcia and all.


ash x

p.s Decided to start me own rap band up im gonna call it.....eptopic beats...


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[jodie]

ash.thank you for the kind words it means so much .i am in such a state tonight i have been trying to get my little one to sleep i lade down and after ten mins i felt like two or three fluttering feelings they have realy scared me i feel like i am going to pop my clogs i dread the rest of the night mad thats how i feel

[jodie]

i wish some of you were online right now i feel so bad panicy and stressed with these bloody eptopics

jo x

[ashley]

hiya jodie
They have brought my topic up again then..bless.. it does help others though totally, when you read people suffering in the same way it gives reasurance ..although not cure.
Jodie kept reading through these posts i have had them so so bad i tell you, still dont know how i am here, but the point is i am.. and that must show you something.
Jodie and all other eptopic sufferers ... accept this.. accept that it cant harm you and your half way there... once you have accepted that it lessons.. it dont go away immidently(spell check) but in time will..
I promise..
Any help anyone please ask.,, i know how nasty it can be. [V]

ashley xx with love [^]