how many of us get funny heart beats

[kaynbrian]

sugar and caffine causes alot of the miss beats. i found L carentine with co q 10 helps my miss beats it has reduced dramatic I use to get like 100 non stop beats. But trust me it really works!!!!go to www.bioinnovations.net and get the L carentine with co q 10 try it for 1 week and you will see the difference. I was scared to death to take any meds but one day it had missed really hard and bad and after i started taking it in one week it improved alot!!!

[never2late]

I've just finished reading this thread from the beginning. I'm currently going through the same thing: skipped heart beats with that "butterfly feeling" for an instant when it happens. I had a run of them for six hours the other night, wound up in the hospital for 24 hour obs, and I was given the same diagnosis: stress and anxiety . . . nothing else wrong with my heart.

Since that episode, I've had them every so often -- but I'm trying my best to apply what I've learned from Claire Weekes and her panic suggestions. I'm just applying it to my ectopics when they happen. It's tough. These are very, very scary when they happen. And the fear seems to come on its own. The fear seems to actually be a PART of the missed beat itself.

But, for those reading this for reassurance, I can say that they did just about every test in the book on my heart and everything is fine. Not one doctor or specialist seemed the least bit concerned. The advice given was for me to find something to occupy my mind when they come on. Find something to keep me busy and to take my mind off of them. They seemed pretty sure of themselves when they said that thinking about them and paying attention to them only makes them worse.

So that's what I'm going to try to do. I had an episode begin last night at 3:00 a.m. in bed. So I just lay there and, as Claire Weekes would say, just accept them and pay them no mind. I'd say it was over in minutes. I was totally surprised, actually. I then fell asleep, and stayed asleep until morning.

Aren't we a real bunch!!!

If you have these, and need someone to talk to when you're scared, just PM me. I'm here for you.

[chrissie1951]

This is the scariest thing in the world, I get so I am frightened to move or to lie down and they make me so very tired. Trouble is it's a vicious circle, the more you are afraid the more they happen, but the question is how to stop being afraid when you are expecting to die at any moment. It really is that bad!!

[AshmanUK]

This is the scariest thing in the world, I get so I am frightened to move or to lie down and they make me so very tired. Trouble is it's a vicious circle, the more you are afraid the more they happen, but the question is how to stop being afraid when you are expecting to die at any moment. It really is that bad!!

Absolutely ditto!.

Atm in the last three days as they have returned big time for me for some reason..sitting down/laying down is about impossible till i physically cant stay awake as im getting missed/skipped beats/ectopics and even multiple ones which are imo, straight from hell.

A nightmare which i share with you all and the worst thing is i had these years ago, they simmered down and went and now they have come back i think stronger all of a sudden, why is it we or i can never learn from the past when it comes back even stronger!.

[never2late]

A nightmare which i share with you all and the worst thing is i had these years ago, they simmered down and went and now they have come back i think stronger all of a sudden, why is it we or i can never learn from the past when it comes back even stronger!.

I think ALL of our symptoms come back "stronger" after we have been symptom-free for any length of time. The reason? We're so very disappointed that the symptom(s) returned after feeling so good for so long.

The strength of the symptom returning is in direct proportion to our sense of disappointment.

Learn to accept that ANY symptom can return at ANY time. Don't feel badly if you feel down that a symptom has returned. Just accept that it has, accept that you're disappointed (anyone would be!), and that -- just like in the past -- it will run its course.

[valleybear]

I too get these pesky beats every day, worse through the night, every second or third beat sometimes. Exercise abolishes them for a time but.....
I had them this bad 8 years ago and had all the tests etc. but used to sit and cry 'cos they were so bad.Then they went away after 18months and now they are back!! Stay strong and the other posts were so right ... the more you ignore them the less they become...

[Gabby0124]

i USED TO GET THEM THEY ARE CALLED PVC'S.I was even hospitalized.They are usually just from stress or caffeine.I went to the cardiologist and he gave me this medicine called Metoprolol and it works wonders.

[Nicholas Scott-Payne]

I reckon that eptopics are a good thing... ! Now, i know people are going to say "he is bonkers" but think of them as friendly. Fact is that 99% of people that suffer a heart attack or likewise are totally unaware of their heart and its beating patterns. The reason why we feel missed beats is because a certain few million of us (lucky or unlucky) are super aware of our own heartbeat. I can even now look at another persons carotid pulse beating in their neck in a supermarket que or on a underground platform and calculate their heart rate ! Bad and sad eh .... As we are aware, we then feel every little variation and jump out of our skins, apparently most humans have eptopic beats but not all feel them. I have had the tests and been told by cardiologists that they really are harmless and apart from stimulants stress induced. We have to get out of the cycle.... eptopic - worry - stress about dropping down clutching our chest - cough - eptopic - more worry and so on. Missed beats let us know we are in fact alive and breathing, we tend to look after ourselves more as a result and no doubt will live longer and happier looking back and thinking ' I can't believe i worried about these all my life ! ' I really hope this helps you ..... / N x

[CarolineB]

Hello everyone, this is my first post. it's reasuring to know you are out there.

I'm sitting here in tears, after a bout of palpatations.

I hate them so much! I can handle most of the other side effects from my G.A.D but these are just so scary. It's not painful it's just a fluttering in my throat and when I feel my pulse it's irregular, Quick then slow, then a double beat, then a missed one. It's terrifying. I hate the fact it puts me off excercise too, they always seem worse after i've done some working out.

I was on beta blockers at one point a few years ago but I can't remember if they worked? And I spent so much time worrying about the side effects of the beta blockers anyway!

Anyone have any advice?

Sob! Caroline.

[Debbied]

Most days although trying to get used to them and convincing my mind not having a heart attack.