Iv had them for decades and still get them now sometimes. I,m awaiting ablation, soon i hope. I've currently been prescribed Flecainide Acetate 50 mg 1 tab twice per day and at first they worked real good but after about 3 weeks things went back to normal. i'm freaking out. Everyone's different but I find that if things are explained to me in detail I don't panic. Visceral fat is linked to ectopic deposition. Most of the time i am in bed sleeping for hours and hours, Hi. Anxiety lends itself to body scanning, which means we notice many more of our ectopic beats. Once we start noticing them, we know the body becomes primed to spot them, which often leads to noticing them more, and that can worsen the problem for some people if it makes them stressed or anxious about the situation. So how come they fitted a loop recorder in your chest? When I had a 24 hour one it picked up four (3 PACs and 1 PVC). a heart attack warning sign, Contacting NMP with comments, questions & concerns, How To's and Technical help, Throat/Swallowing/Choking/Globus Hystericus, Depersonalization/depersonalisation & Derealization/derealisation (DP & DR), General Anxiety / Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), Birthday Wishes / Celebrations / Other Announcements, If this is your first visit, be sure to This condition has made me useless, i am unable to do day to day chores because i live in a constant fear that something is going to happen to me or my heart is going to stop suddenly. My exercise tolerance has been greatly reduced. hello, can I ask, do you ever get any chest tenderness or tightness when having an episode? It feels like my heart pauses for a split second and then a more forceful beat follows. Recently i developed arrhythmia problems, which is quite scary and agonising. I think it runs in my family.. I've had numerous tests over the years and whilst they've diagnosed the Ectopic Heartbeats they say they are harmless - although the Doc's seem to give me the impression they don't believe me as to how ill they make me feel. Posted Most people are lacking in this, because of the types of diet we have. Illness Anxiety & Hypochondriasis) in its many forms in our own societal realms. To a large extent, it is either the stress that we live under or the lifestyle choices that we make that "gives" us Ectopic heartbeats and then eventually ectopic heartbeat anxiety. Our clinical information meets the standards set by the NHS in their Standard for Creating Health Content guidance. be prepared, it could take a while to get answers, especailly if you are not a very good self advocate. One who has given them completely had come off medication whilst the other is tempted to often! I also have occasional bouts of nausea, dizzyness and extreme breathlessness when going up stairs etc. They are much better than they were and don't consume my whole day anymore, but since the ablation my anxiety has been out of control. Powered by Invision Community. Although the symptoms of the heart missing a beat or a thumping in your chest can be unpleasant or cause anxiety, they do not indicate any problems with the heart, and the extra beats will not normally cause any damage to your heart.Normally a clinician will diagnose an ectopic beat from what you have told them. That's weird. View Full Version : More ectopic Beats. My Holter monitor showed 3600 a day. I don't know how i'm supposed not worry about it when I can literally feel my heart jolting me. Ask yourself: What would a healthy person think?. Also, try not to self medicate with alcohol, it has never helped anyone and ends up making you feel worse in the long run. Facts re ectopic beats1 life insurance companies don't load a policy if occasional ectopics are seen on an ECG. Can you give me an example of a bad day for you? And yes i've been told to stay away from anything too exhillarating untill i'm sorted but its been going on so many years now I'm doubting I ever will be sorted. 33 and worried about abdominal aortic aneurysm. Content on HealthUnlocked does not replace the relationship between you and doctors or other healthcare professionals nor the advice you receive from them. Thinking anxiously about ectopic beats will increase the likelihood of you suffering an ectopic beat. They can last for several days and i may not get them for weeks at a time. They are horrible. The nerve triggers the beats, which can be why some people notice them sitting after a meal. Click here to get started. Soft drinks with phosphoric acid (colas etc) can also reduce your magnesium levels, so avoid those if you can. MIne were also causing panic attacks but hey explained to me just what was happening and why they were harmless. By pure chance they left me attached to the machine and bingo; a long run of ectopics. Did your doc tell you how many ectopic beats the Holter was able to capture? Egton Medical Information Systems Limited. Patient does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. I've cut out caffein and soft fizzy drinks (especially coca cola), I've never been that interested in chocolat and if I have 5 snickers per year then thats pushing it. My cardiologist and Dr both think these are from being physically unfit, overweight, and anxious/stressed. I don't get it that often so I haven't been to the doctors yet, apart from to the NHS walk in centre once, but by the time I'd waited hours in the waiting room it had calmed down to almost normal! At the hospital they did lots of tests, told him he had whiplash (from digging the garden!) I do feel guilty posting here as I've read through quite a few posts about people's experience with their heart (not just ectopic beats) and I think my issue is down to anxiety. I'll feel a few beats skip. Ectopic beats are extremely common and whilst they can be uncomfortable and unsettling, generally benign. I suffer Any advice on isolated ectopic heart beats? Thank you for this message, it has really helped me. Doctor did some tests and wore a monitor nothing to worry about unless it's constant. Hi victorRong, anxiety feeds ectopics. Is 'arrythmia'/'palpatations' your only sympom? Good luck! just came back a month or two ago, at the moment getting them 24/7 every two or three minutes. I thought my anxiety would be so much better getting rid of them but apparently I just find other things to be afraid of! POSTS ON THIS FORUM ARE NOT ACTIVELY MONITORED. Patient aims to help the world proactively manage its healthcare, supplying evidence-based information on a wide range of medical and health topics to patients and health professionals. respect of any healthcare matters. Were you ever prescribed any other medicines before the one you name? It doesnt bother me so much when i have a couple but when i have multiple beats like that and i am at work its very annoying and drives up my anxiety. 2 The cure for me was to go as hard as I could under medical supervision with an ECG and a doctor there and, as he had said would happen, the ectopics, which were frequent at rest, disappeared completely at a heart rate of around 150/min. hi tightness yes, tenderness no. I was able to see my heart rhythm on the monitor in front of the stationary bike I was on. Have you had a checkup from your doctor? Tachycardia after lack of sleep and forgetting to take my meds. Last November I started getting them constantly, like every few beats 24/7. not to many at first but over the years have got worse. So hopefully that is the key! All came back normal. I may get a few a day or loads in a day. but once they kick in they don't stop until I go to sleep, which makes so awkward for me. Hi mate, what you're describing sounds like symptoms of anxiety, and the more you concentrate and think about it, and listen for your heartbeat, the more you're going to keep yourself in that frightened state. You are lucky they managed to see the ectopic b eats and know where they are coming from ie they know they are benign. yesterday i had an attack of SVT running at 168 beats, in hospital and had adenosine. and wonder if anyone has had that procedure done ? Cliff Clavin May 4, 2006 in General Discussions. I have started to take magnesium which has calmed them a little, It is very worrying I know and scary when it happens. Like you, I monitored them for a while then wemt to a&e and was told bloods all normal just ectopic beats and that's very normal. These are common symptoms for CD. Breathing exercise are helpful and if I go for a long walk I do not feel them. Both found that removing trigger foods from their diet an enormous benefit. If you're experiencing ectopic heart beats, it can be an unsettling experience, especially if they're occurring on a frequent basis. That's great news! I do go to the gym pretty regular and they don't seem to affect me while I'm exercising. Normal! I hope that this informative and supportive place will help you understand that you are not alone in worrying over your heart matters. I promptly changed doctors. I just don't know whether it is worth pressuring my GP into referring me to a cardiologist here if they are still unlikely to find anything. I had an MRI (not heart related) in February, and because they had to turn off my ICD, I was hooked up to a loud heart monitor that repeated all my heart beats back to me. It's hard to keep that in mind when experiencing them, sometimes it even feels like it's in my throat. It's got me tearing my hair out as the murmurs aren't likely to be 'innocent' as they were only detected in adulthood, I find it very difficult to exercise without feeling like I'm going to collapse (even though I'm young and fairly 'fit', I walk everywhere as I don't have a car). Being aware of every beat of my heart and the ectopic beats is mentally and emotionally exhausting. Constant checking of pulse ectopic are a fairly new thing to me over the last few months. Your doctor may suggest that you avoid the things that trigger your ectopic beat. We could find no scientific studies to support nightshade vegetable. They are not out to make friends - only money - so if they don't load a policy it is because the ectopics are not associated with premature death.At a 0.3% burden you have no worries at all of being loaded. I understand ectopic beats are extra pulses in between normal rhythm. We coalesce here to reclaim control of our lives through: education, sharing experiences, sharing management techniques, sharing resources, exposing stigma & norms, and advancing the discussion & awareness around Health Anxiety (a.k.a. Seemingly comes out of nowhere. For the most part i've slowly gotten over my heart worries, and though my ectopics were and still are frightening i've gotten over them too. Search the forum using the power of Google. Hormonal changes such as those seen during pregnancy or menopause may also cause ventricular ectopics. More then 30 years later I nearly died because no one ran the right tests. I have actually watched several of his videos which i have also found helpful. Some people prefer not to know but it's the unknown that worries me. The triggers were coffee , alcohol, chocolate and spicy food. They'd appear one day, stick around for a few more and then disappear for a few weeks or months before reappearing to repeat the cycle. I'm fed up of my GP who even recently suggested I stop taking the medication (which was prescribed by my consultant cardiologist) because I think he saw the word stress on my records (which my asthma was orginally misdiagnosed as), seems to have put my tachycardia down to this and they appear to have no interest in sorting out the problem as the original tests didn't appear to show anything seriousl wrong. Probably because it is benign in most of the cases, and there is no real need to research it too much? It wasn't the ectopics that later caused my heart attack but years of smoking and blocked arteries . my heart doesn't beat fast it feels like it skips a beat and then almost like its pushing extra blood through afterwards. It doesn't hurt but it worried me sometimes due the trauma I had when I had ha. Ectopic heartbeats are when the heart adds or skips a beat. I'm no longer under the care of the cardiologist as I was having to travel 300 miles for every appointment when I was at university. The current belief is that almost everyone experiences ectopic beats, but only a small proportion of people are aware of having them. Ectopics are only generally considered of concern in their own right if youre having runs of three or more ventricular ectopics in a row without any normal beats in between, or if they total more than 10% of your total beats in a day, which for most people would be experiencing something in excess of 8000 ectopics per 24 hours. That line helped me put back into perspective my illness, but I have a feeling that you may need more help, and that help is available, you just have to ask for it. and that he was lucky: he has an extra heartbeat every minute! I recently started seeing a new GP and i have mentioned the palpitations to him as a concern. as being in breach of those terms. Mine show as a 'flutter' in my chest (about 30 per hour). Whether or not they're actually 'harmful' in the traditional sense is irrelevant to how much of an effect they can have on your life. Right! yes I agree with that 100% I've been having ectopics for 6 years now, at first I just thought it was heart palpitations and always told the same thing that everyone gets them at times but some just notice them more until a recent visit to the ER when my heart rate went high after it skipped a beat to get it to return itself to normal, saw the cardiologist and had a "heart bug" for a month to be put on beta blockers today and have to go back for 2 more further tests and then ill see the cardiologist again in month and talk about having the ablation procedure done, I can't understand how they can still say irregularities in one's heart is nothing to worry about when it is a main functioning organ that keeps us alive, so to speak. Hi Azzigoth, I sent you a private message. You can find them on YouTube. . I also suspect a relationship between my ectopics and my low blood pressure which can on occasion leave me light headed. The impact on quality of life and psychological well-being of those affected is under-recognised. I also had this ectopic heartbeat after 5 stent placement 3 months ago. Despite the absence of anything on the ECG, he diagnoses me as having ventricular ectopic beats. appropriate medical assistance immediately. Hi there -- First, you have my unconditional sympathy. Sometimes my chest and throat feel tender when experiencing them, not sure if it's maybe my anxiety though which perhaps gives a feeling.more like mild panic attack. The panic is still there but doesn't escalate due to the tachycardia. I'm sure you know to give up tea, coffee, chocolate and liquorice. THIS SITE AIMS TO HELP WITH GAINING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT AFIB. I am 45 and have been getting crazy palpitations. It is hard to tell a person in athority what to do when it is their job, so be ready, it is intimidating yet soo impowering. There are two types of ectopic heartbeat: Premature atrial contractions (PAC), which originate in the upper chambers, or atria. I'm terrified of increasing my heart rate so I've not been exercising, the last time I exercised a few weeks ago and got my heart rate up into the 130-140 I ended up having about 2 hours of crazy hard ectopic beats and ultimately a panic attack. It's easy! Anyway, as for trying to combat it, try wearing less layers of clothing. ECTOPIC HEARTBEATS MAZZER I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH BENIGN ECTOPIC HEARTBEATS, I HAVE AN EXTRA BEAT FOR EVERY SIX NORMAL BEATS, WHICH MEANS I HAVE THOUSANDS OF EXTRA BEATS A DAY. R E L A X! Going up the stairs seems like considerable effort. Praying for yall. I just wanted to pop in to say a few things. Thanks. Thanks. The typically affect me later in the day when I have a run of them, like after a long day of work. I am currently taking 200 mg of magnesium citrate daily but don't notice any improvement. It seems to happen most when there is gas in my esophagus but will also happen randomly. So I hear you. Veins enlarging in hands. We definitely experience it as a heart problem and reallyfeel it inside our bodies, but is it only a heart problem? My heart used to do that too. I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder and definitely have some Health Anxiety. I presume that after tests cleared your heart, that your doctor has prescribed you beta blockers? It feels like I have a one ectopic beat a min but sometimes this has gone up to three ectopic beats a min. hi , yes! Structural heart problems. I drove myself mad trying to find my trigger so I gave up.. I'm also quite bradycardic with a resting pulse that hovers around 40bpm. I am interested in the magnesium angle and would appreciate some feedback there. It took nearly 2 years for them to catch mine; holter monitor for a week- nothing happened, umpteen ECGs - nothing happened. i'm still waiting to hear from my doc after they receive the letter from a&e about a 24hr monitor. My anxiety channels into health anxiety, too. The eating little and often is interesting. I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR HEALTH PROFESIONAL. Anxiety Forum - A Home for Those with Anxiety, Fear, or Panic Attacks > Anxiety Disorders > General Discussion > More ectopic Beats. but its good to hear of other sufferers and to know we are not alone .but the doctor told me dont worry your heart is not going to stop. Had ecgs48 hr ecg ( which of course only showed a couple) echo and ct angiogram which im waiting the results for but wanted to know how many is normal? 131 users are following. For example, the major symptom of an ectopic beat is an extra heartbeat or a skipped heartbeat, and that's when you feel your heart lurching or when you feel an extra-strong heartbeat that only occurs momentarily. as being in breach of those terms. This is one of the most common, yet most frustrating medical problems, the variety of ectopic beats and rhythms and how the not only produce but are also produced by anxiety.They are all, as your doctor has inadequately explained, benign -- even when the occur in people with serious heart disease.They are not diagnostic of heart disease . If you want to support this site please make a donation: I am no Doctor or health professional and am only speaking out of my own experience and research. LOL. Can completely new anxiety forms pop up in response to a My boyfriend is a hypochondriac and I am starting to feel For those who choose to watch shows like Grey's Anatomy What are some niche ways that people can do to support You are the leader of a society full of people with Press J to jump to the feed. Since that experience, my fear of them has disappeared as if they don't occur at that rate, with the heart working very very very hard, then they were not dangerous, as it is normal for a fault to become apparent when it is under maximum load. I feel you, if it's not one thing it's another. Dr. says lot of people have them and not to worry so I don't but some find it troublesome. Stress which results in high adrenaline levels. The hard thump many of you feel is the heart compensating for the ectopic beat, this is perfectly normal. So what is this skipped, extra or sometimes experienced as hard beats? i've noticed . Despite a lack of clinical prognostic significance associated with the majority of ectopic beats, they can cause considerable distress and anxiety for the patient and therapeutic management can be challenging. I tried Magnesium, but I found they didn't help that much. In case you don't know, it can actually be very normal for a person to experience up to a certain percentage of skipped/extra beats compared to regular beats. about 10 years ago i was very bad with panic and anxiety attacks,couldnt go anywhere in public i thought i was going crazy.i was put on medication ,over the years i have got myself better,not cured but better,and then around 7 years ago i started with palpatations,heart missing beats, had ecgs number of times that was ok. then i started with my heart racing that fast couldn tcount the beats and this sounds strange but when it was happening iwas constantly going to the loo every few minutes .when i saw my doctor she told me that was because of the adrenaline running through my body would lay awake for hours untill it went off ,and then it left me exhausted dizzy legs like jelly.then my doctor sent me to see a cardiologist .he did tests and said i had a good strong healthy heart.and said it was blood pressure and put me on beta blockers they were controlling my blood pressure but it was still happening, and each time i asked him why it was happening he said in a very arrogant way its your blood pressure .its still happening the other night i was sat watching tv calm and it started ,i asked my husband why ,but he is just as puzzled as me ,but i think i have realised that when iam anxious or worried it does come on .but i am agreat believer in herbal remedies and i started taking st. johns wort and and bachs rescue remedy and when iam stressed or anxious i put 4 drops on my tongue and it does help me.however i am going to see a doctor next week to see if i need to have my beta blockers increased . 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