Skipped heart beats.

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Oopsie

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I have had skipped HB's for 35 years and am still concerned. I can feel them as the occur as in thumps in my chest and this still worries me to the extent that it has changed my whole lifestyle.
I have not had a cup of coffee, tea or any caffeine in years. I do not even smoke but they persist.

I know that this is very common and mostly benign but it still is a concern to me.

Any one here with the same problem is welcome to add their story.
 
and in those 35 years have you gone to a cardiologist?

I have an irregular heartbeat as well, did loads of tests, cardiologist said it was due to the amount of sport I did as a child and that my heart is probably the last thing that would give out in my body. Go get it checked and save yourself worrying
 
I have spent 3 days in a hospital undergoing tests and they found nothing. All they gave me was alprazolam aka xanex, zoloft. I still take them to this day and it sure helps to an extent.
Ever so often, I would get a Tachycardia attack with skipped beats and be rushed to hospital but now I have come to grips with this and revert it myself.
 
Mortymoose said:
Known as heart palpatations..... Had them for ever, learnt the hard way that I cannot suip Red Bulls and the likes thereof...
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Yeah, my wife gets them regularly too. A cardiologist will be able to give you a heart monitor to carry with you for 24 hours, and there are two different types: the first will record continuously for 24 hours, and the other will activate when you press a button on it.

The idea is that you then record these palpitations and they get analysed by the cardiologist. Maybe something for you to consider.

In my wife's case, they didn't give her any answer or solution. The basic premise was 'If you're not dead, then it's all good.' Not too satisfactory, but just a reminder that doctors still don't know as much about our bodies as we wish.
 
I've had skipped beats and an irregular heartbeat for over 50 years and I don't let a cup of coffee get past me.
 
Taking a 300mg aspirin a day would help with clots forming between the skipped beats. Today was particularly bad for me but found that if I am sitting and bent over my laptop it is bad but when I stand upright, it stops. Perhaps when standing, your stomach and intestines make more room in the chest as it is not pressing into the chest area while bending over.
 
Had skipped heartbeats for 2 years before having a serious Tachycardia attack. Dr's found nothing wrong with my heart but with my thyroid. I also had some mineral deficiencies. I now have anxiety because of the attack, but my palpitations are almost non existent. Oh and I drink about 5 cups of strong coffee a day.
 
My wife's heart used to "race" at a helluva rate.She had a heart ablation at Durban Heart Hospital where they stick probes from the groin into the heart and kill off the area in the heart that are causing the problems and has been fine ever since..nearly 2 years
 
Oopsie said:
Taking a 300mg aspirin a day would help with clots forming between the skipped beats.
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That makes no sense to me at all. Are you trying to tell me that the heart beating is what stops clots forming?

You're either a troll or dangerously uninformed. I'm going with troll.
 
Colin62 said:
That makes no sense to me at all. Are you trying to tell me that the heart beating is what stops clots forming?

You're either a troll or dangerously uninformed. I'm going with troll.
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Not at all pal. If you have a HB of 60 pm as I have and a single missed beat is 2 seconds long. That is long enough with no blood flow to cause a clot.
I have researched this and advise you to do the same. Aspirin thins the blood and should be taken by all elderly people.
Why would the US give free aspirin to all elderly people?
 
Loukie01 said:
Had skipped heartbeats for 2 years before having a serious Tachycardia attack. Dr's found nothing wrong with my heart but with my thyroid. I also had some mineral deficiencies. I now have anxiety because of the attack, but my palpitations are almost non existent. Oh and I drink about 5 cups of strong coffee a day.
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I have had many Tachycardia attacks that showed as "complex tachycardia" on the hospital computer's screen. This was due to a rogue node making a separate beat signal that doubled my normal HB. The skipped beats made it "complex".
 
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