I made a post probably last month about this exact same thing. I'd always felt periods of flutters and was a bit anxious about them. Last month I actually "tested myself" when it happened as I wanted to prove to myself how I was probably overreacting. The sensation you described earlier about feeling the miss then that thud brought me onto a near full blown panic attack, was not expecting to feel it like that I thought it was all in my head. Needless to say a month later and my fear has focused onto something else and I'm not getting them every evening now. Apparently the thud is what's meant to happen, it's the process of the heart getting back into a rhythm but it does feel scary. Can you get a quick check up just incase? Dr will probably tell you all seems fine and that's usually enough to move past the worry.
Oh, I have. Everything is clear so far. I was referred to cardiology if I wanted to do a heart monitor. Over two weeks later and no call from them. I don’t think my perfect results from EKG, Blood Pressure, and blood work has them worried. I’m sure it’s stress. To be fair, when I first wake up I feel great with nothing. It’s once the stress of kids and work get going that I have them.
I feel like I cycle thru these heart related issues. I focus on chest pain then finally come to terms with it being anxiety after weeks or months. Then I’ll focus on heart rate. Like climbing a set of steps makes my heart go over 100 then I’ll focus on that for a bit. I’ll finally realize it’s anxiety and only happens when I focus on it. Then skipped heart beats. But I also press down really hard when I feel my pulse so I feel like I might be doing some of that myself.
Just this morning I was finally feeling more relaxed and just as I was sitting down, I felt a strange feeling in my chest. Was it s skipped beat? I don’t know. Maybe but when I felt my pulse afterwards, it felt normal and about 68 bpm.
I struggle with what to do. I know people my age get a few shipped beats everyday. It’s normal.
You’re not alone
Just this morning I was finally feeling more relaxed and just as I was sitting down, I felt a strange feeling in my chest. Was it s skipped beat? I don’t know. Maybe but when I felt my pulse afterwards, it felt normal and about 68 bpm.
I struggle with what to do. I know people my age get a few shipped beats everyday. It’s normal.
You’re not alone
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How did you test yourself?
Yep can totally relate. I'm seeing a new therapist recently and she said stress response is a massive massive contribution to pain, kids and work can def do that ha, but also the stress of feeling unwell. When she told me that I no I relaxed for 24hrs and noticed relief. I've gone and pulled a muscle in my back so I'm in pain again and stressed and definitely had palpitations then. Constant cycle!
I wanted to update. This still persists a few times almost every day. Sometimes it’s 1-2 times. Other days it’s a dozen or so. Usually in the evening. So weird but nothing else is happening. Cardiology still hasn’t called me so I guess they really are not worried about my description. Still, I’m ready for them to disappear.
I woke up this morning with palpitations. Really noticeable out of time Beats happened a few times a minute. I can even feel it in my throat. I hate it and it usually passed within 30mins of getting up. Absolutely nothing to do with anxiety I'm half asleep and groggy not in the slightest bit panicky. My heart isn't racing either it's definitely at resting rate. I sleep on my left side so assuming it's from getting a bit squashed in the night, changing hormone levels or cortisol levels, sure I've heard that changes in the AM. I'm just telling myself it's got to be these I've had an ECG recently and my heart rate was high but not abnormal. It does cross my mind what they would say or if they would act different If I had an ECG in the morning and it picked up these weird out of sync beats. I've had this before and it lasted a few weeks and went for probably a month or so.
I'd ring and ask for the appointment if I were you, imagine you go and they completely put your mind at rest and all tests are normal. It will be worth it for the relief!!
I'd ring and ask for the appointment if I were you, imagine you go and they completely put your mind at rest and all tests are normal. It will be worth it for the relief!!
I did finally talk to a cardiologist office this morning and they are going to call me in a day or two to schedule an appointment. I did a follow up with a doctor today just to kind of see what their thoughts were since I hadn’t heard from the cardiologist. They told me I definitely want to get checked out and do an echocardiogram and a halter monitor since my dad and grandpa had high blood pressure issues just to be certain of what’s happening. I’m not going to lie, it’s hard to relax about it.
I’ve got similar issues at the moment, it’s an absolute nightmare. My work is cleaning and it’s seasonal so warmer months plenty of work but now it’s almost winter and I’m working one day a week. More time to panic with nothing to do. My manual breathing issues get worse being home all the time and I can’t do much coz I make myself out of breath so I panic more. My high cholesterol makes me worry I’m going to have a heart attack any second and I just sit and panic all day. The past few days I’m getting flutters and all sorts of feeling in the chest. I try and relax but they start up so I panic and they keep going. The cycle continues all day. I don’t know what to do, I don’t want to take anti depressants and the doc won’t give me a Valium type pill. I just need a few days of some kind of calm.
Going in the morning to meet with cardiologist. Hoping they just do everything they need to do so I don't have to wait much longer. This has reduced a ton over the last few weeks but not totally gone away. That gives me hope for it just being stress. Trying to relax as much as I can today as it is looming.
Good luck I hope you get good news
Well, I’m already done which is pretty awesome. He is sending me a heart monitor in the mail to wear for two weeks and they will just look for any arrhythmia. He is not concerned whatsoever based on my description and said this is super common and that my stress and inhaler probably caused it to be more prominent where I’m feeling it, but it will likely disappear on its own. After the results of the heart monitor, if nothing is found then I’m free to go. If the heart monitor finds anything then they would do further testing. 99% chance I’m fine he said. 
That’s good news so far
How are you feeling? I’m currently on day 5 of this and I’ve gone to urgent care and my doctor, gotten blood work and an EKG, all clear!! Very stressed out though!
I feel your pain! I had this from May 1 until June 7. Two days after my cardiologist told me it was benign… it suddenly stopped. I have felt it once in the last four days. That’s down from 1-20 times every day. I’m almost positive now that it’s just stress and thinking about it was causing it. I start the monitor this Thursday but due to the massive decrease, I’m not even nervous about the results. Hang in there.
Yeah I’ve been getting the flutters too for about a week. It’s freaking me out. Too scared to see the doc. It’s worse at night coz I’m watching tv and waiting for it. Trying to sleep is hard I keep fidgeting to not feel it. It’s usually not as bad when I’m thinking about something else
FYI, the cardiologist I talked to said that if you feel it when resting, that’s super common. That’s the most often when people notice it. He also said it happens to almost everyone but usually we don’t notice it. Stress, anxiety, medications, and other random stuff can make it more obvious to us for a time. His exact words, “you’ll have times like this through your life where you feel it and then it’ll stop and be gone again”. My description didn’t worry him at all.