Palpitations and the Skipping Heart

Palpitations are one of the most common reasons I see patients in the office. Skips, flips, flops, jumps and missed beats can be unnerving but are often not dangerous. Dr. Matt DeVane, board certified cardiologist, author and co-founder of HeartSmart MD reviews the skipping heart and what steps to take. Learn much more at www.heartsmartmd.com

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[123Shakeena]

Thank u so much u really helped a lot!

[BAULMOVEMENT]

im a male 28, undergoing so much more added stress these past two months and low and behold i start feeling this one strong beat and then back to normal, it would never bother me during my jogs or workouts but now its creeping into my jogs where i feel the strong beat but then i continue running fine. when i lift weights i never get that beat. though i was gonna drop dead too.

[kisaloveable]

@fmicheo416 last time i went to the doctor i was tld i have rare heart beats and that she hears so weird sound behind it then shes like your ok watahell i dnt think so and she's like the chest pain its part of growing up i been having it ever since i was i think 14 now im 19 

[kisaloveable]

@SanEverett OMG!! me too what is that? it use to me like for few seconds but now it changed it lasts like a minute or 2 and its hard for me to breath so i breath from my mouth and not into my chest because it hurts so bad

[SanEverett]

@SanEverett Also I can get weird pains sometimes in my chest like sharp nerve pains.They only last seconds and don't happen every day an might not feel nothing for a few months then HELLO here one comes lol..

Not a fun thing at all...The doctors attribute it to over worked nerves etc panic attack etc....

Again,its really been nice to read some of these stories..I thought I had some weird abnormality going on that soon I would drop dead like a rock ..

[SanEverett]

@SanEverett Heart palps are a night mare!! I have anxiety attacks as well that I inherited from mom,thanks mom lol! So I have to really watch caffeine and not too much lettuce which gives me heart burn and gets the anxiety going which gets the palps going..

Its a weird sense of terror......I can be sitting with my daughter holding the little grandbaby and HELLO here it comes..I just don't say nothing to nobody and drink some water and try to relax..I am glad to read these stories too like mine!

[SanEverett]

I'm male 46 and have been having heart palps for about a year now.Some days hardly nothing at all.But some days 1/3 of my day is trying to put off 'another' trip to the ER for a false alarm heart attack.I have had nearly 20 visits to three different hospitals thinking I was about to die...I am not exaggerating! I've had 2 ambulance rides.I've had too much to list done checking this out.Even heart cath cause my chest was hurting.Turned out to be heart burn.Several dye tests looking but nothing .

[Skeletonwitharaygun]

@fmicheo416

LOL!

Im in the very same boat as you,my friend.

Sucks no?

Just had a trip to the ER today.

Was told the same thing "You seem to be fine,Here's some anxiety pills"

<_<

I mean...I WANT them to be right.

I just can't get myself to belive them

[bethyboo1969]

@qarnov my doc told me it was mental too and i ended up having a cardiac ablation...it helped alot, but maybe headed for another one...yuck!

[fmicheo416]

I get these too and it scares the shit out of me. I have a health anxiety issue so I know it's brought on from that. Im 24 and I've been to the ER about four times thinking I was having a heart attack. I've gotten multiple ekg's, chest x-rays and an echocardiograms done. The doctors tell me I'm fine. Deep down I know this but when you start to experience this everything you've been told goes out the window. I'm having skipped heart beats as I type this now. I just get so scared that my heart is