why does my heart skip a beat?

I dont' know who in the world you are, but your message made me feel better and I wanted to say thanks. You were responding to someone else and helped me. I've had skipping beats in my heart a couple of years ago and now for the past 4 days it's been constant and I've gotten really nervous. Yeah, times are bad and I've worked for 2 full weeks for a friend and not made a penny so I got really stressed about money. My husbands job is not good and I felt bad for him, My little bro had a cancer gland taken out of his neck and I felt bad for him, My mom is under stress and I felt bad for her, plus I drink a hell of a lot of tea every day...probably 6 cups of 20oz. black irish breakfast tea and I smoke. On top of that for the past 2 weeks I've been sitting in front of a computer and not moving AND I used a tens unit for my shoulder pain which freaked me out when I thought I couldve messed up my heart beat cause of that. Wow I just spilled all my beans...OH....and I been taking pain killers this past week too so I guess it all took a toll on my heart. Hopefully will find a doc but til then wanted to say thanks. I went to a heart doc once and they diagnosed me with what my mom had before she even examined me and it pissed me off....ALL cause I didn't have insurance. Thanks for listening and thanks for helping!!

MEG

Hey Meg, I don't know you but I hope you are feeling better. I am sorry to hear about all the things you have been going through. My heart has done the same thing for several months and I took the advice these guys are suggesting and it has worked wonders. If you aren't healthy, you can't be there to take care of the people who need you the most. The number one help for this heart condition was cutting out caffeine and reducing stress. Give it a try and may God bless you and your family during this difficult time.

K

Thanks K,

i went to the doctor.....he said, no smoking, cut tea intake...and no stress...no stress is funny. The halt monitor came up with ridiculous numbers. A normal persons heart skips 24 times and mine was at 2671 times. The doctor was really shocked at my numbers. He said he'd rather stick to natural healing instead of meds. He prescribed YOGA, half an hour cardio a day for 5 days, and what I wrote above. I've been moving around a lot and haven't felt my heart skip, flutter or feel the bubble feeling. Thanks for the comments K.

Meg

My doctor suggested the same thing to me. To keep up the cardio and watch caffene intake.  I notice the skips come back when I am unable to get to the gym and have too much going on at work. Thanks for all of your comments.

i have been getting the same feeling its so scarey, i have has ecg blood test xrays and everything normal. now reading your symptons they are exactly alike. Flutters heart missing a beat and a bubbley feeling.

Hey carneycars, Don't worry seriously! As you could also see others have the same issue like us on here. I started to roller blade and I can't believe that I don't feel it skip anymore. THere was one day where I was super stressed and that night I couldn't even sleep. My heart felt like it was jumping around aside from skipping, it was really crazy and scary but the more I get scared, the worse it gets. Excersing really works. My doctor said he didn't want to put me on meds even though the test showed...a normal persons skips 24 in a day and mine skipped 2671 times..no lie! He wanted me to do it naturally. I'm also suppose to do yoga but I haven't done that yet...hope to do it, but do something you like that involves your heart rate to go fast. I thought making my heart rate go fast would be bad, but when I asked the heart doctor, he told me it's just the opposite and he was really right!As soon as I started excersing it was gone. Now I just have to cut the tea and quit the smokes...he also ordered me to do those things but only cut tea a little and haven't stopped smoking. Hope to do that this week. Just kinda hard when every person around me smokes. But seriously.....start doing something you like. I'd swim but Florida is freezing right now so I got roller blades as a gift and started to roller blade 30 minutes a day (in the cold so now I'm sick but still doing it lol) well, good luck..you could write any time too if you feel scared. Theres me and many other cool people. Talking would make a bit of the stress go away too. DOnt' think of it too much, you'd be surprised how much it affects the heart...I was. Good luck and hey..happy new year!! Megan

thanks so much for giving me an answer. my heart has been skipping beats all day. 3 times in the last 2 hours. i was really nervous...asking myself if today is my day to you know..i feel so much better. i still cant sleep just yet,but i will surf the web for a couple more hours till i feel better. i know i've been stressed because im pms-ing right now,not to give tmi but my boobs have been hurting lately because of my period and ive been worring alot over that thinking i have breast cancer or something. and just a few hours ago i got into an argument with my sister and we're not talking and im a little stressed over that. anywho after a few deep breaths and a sip of water im doing okay for the moment. i will try not to stress myself out so much,thats how my mom died from stress,so i need to slow down and take a second.thanks again u guys this advice is very helpful to me. if anyone wants to further contact me to help me remember to keep my cool my e-mail address is tallengurl0405@yahoo.com

WELL, I DON'T KNOW YOU BUT I WAS HAVING THE SAME THING. I FELT LIKE MY HEART WAS BEATING TO FAST AND ALSO FELT AS IF IT FLUTTERED AT TIME. I GOT SCARED BUT THE BEST THING I HAVE EVERY DONE FOR THAT IS CALL ON THE NAME OF JESUS. AND I WILL TELL YOU FROM MY OWN PERSONAL EXPIRENCE, I WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND THEY CHECKED ME OUT AND SAID I WAS FINE. ONLY THING IS I HAVE SLEEP ABNEIA IS WHAT THEY TOLD ME. I KNEW I HAD SLEEP ABNEIA FROM WHEN I WAS YOUNG. WHAT IT IS , IS WHEN I GO TO SLEEP SOMETIMES I STOP BREATHING FOR A FEW SECONDS THEN WAKE UP TO CATCH MY BREATH AND THAT'S WHEN I WAKE UP WITH MY HEART BEATING TO FAST AND THAT IS SCARY. BUT I UNDERSTAND THE DOCTOR'S TELL YOU THIS IS WRON OR THAT IS WRONG BUT IF YOU JUST START PRAYING AND PLEADING THE BLOOD OF JESUS OVER YOUR LIFE AND CIRCUMSTANCES I GUARANTEE YOU WILL SEE A CHANGE. AND ALWAYS PRAY BECAUSE GOD HEARS OUR PRAYERS AND HE ANSWEERS US WHEN WE CRY OUT TO HIM. SO' JUST OUT YOUR FAITH IN GOD AND EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT.

HI JUST WANT TO SAY IV BEEN GETING THEM FOR YEARS BUT THIS WEEK AS BEEN VERY VERY BAD THE WEEKEND I HAVE HAD ABOUT 30 OF THEM AND ALL WEEK FLUTTERING AND TONIGHT I HAVE HAD 3 BIG ONES LIKE YOUR NEVER GOING TO RECOVER FROM IT.AS TIE AS GONE ON THAY HAVE GOT WORSE AND MORE FREQUENT IT DOSE SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF JUST TO SAY THIS WEEK IM WELL DOWN AND IM LOOKING PASTY AND NOT REALY WITH IT %100 LIKE I HAVE SOME SORT OF VIRUS OR SOMETHING BUT I THINK ITS JUDT DOWN TO ME THINKING AND WAITING FOR THEM TO HAPPEN THANKS SAM AND WHEN I GET THEM THAY TAKE MY BREATH AWAY

WE'LL I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH ACUTE ANZIETY FOR MANY YEARS ....IM 33 YRS OLD NOW AND VERY GRATEFUL FOR THIS BECAUSE OF ALL THE WEAR AND TEAR ON MY BODY THESE PANIC ATTACKS HAVE PUT ON ME.....I ALWAYS WONDERED IF I WOULD GET THREW ANOTHER ONE . I'VE HAD FLUTTERING AND SKIPPING BEATS A LOT MORE REGULAR THESE DAYS EVEN WHEN I DON'T HAVE ANZIETY ATTACKS......I BECOMES ALITTLE SHORT OF BREATH WITH THESE SO I AM CONCERNED. I'VE HAD IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS A-21 DAYS HOLTER MONITOR,EKG,ECHOAND OTHER BLOOD TEST AND IM STILL NOT REASSURED THAT IM OK BECUASE IM SO SENSATIVE TO THESE FEELS .......MY DOCTOR SAYS IT'S ANZIETY BUT I STILL FEEL IT'S JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING HE'S MISSING.

 

I agree with all of the above. It is frustrating though after going to doctors and they say It's nothing.....if it gets very bad go to the ER... While taking my pulse in my wrist, I can feel the skip 1st  3 inches below my adam's apple where the throat goes into the rib cage and then the skip in my heart. I have found one thing that has worked and can't really determine why it works, except it probably distracts the mind. What I do is begin counting my pulse, normally it will skip a few more times, then goes away. Hope this helps someone else

hi, I have suffered from this too on and off for a few years now.... it actually started after my father died suddenly of a heart attack. Doctors have said dont worry about it  and it will be made worse if I think about it. They also said it could be related to my thyroid disorder which is up and down.....or as you said electrolytes.

 It does seem to get worse with stress and caffine, however I dont get it constantly, it happens for a couple of months a year the rest of the time its fine i feel nothing. I think its strange though it only started happening after my father passed..... some times i think   i am so worried about a heart attack i make the skipping or palpitation worse.

 

 

CAN ANY 1 TELL ME WHEN THAY MOVE SOMETIMES FAST FROM BEING STILL DO THAY GET THE HEART SKIPS THANKS

Ihave had skippedbeats for forty yrs,amnowsixty yrs old.myinestarted when my first wife died. some times they are bad.I had a heart attack and tripple bypass and as soon as i woke up their they were again and still have them almost every day I was told bye thedoctor they were pvc. I wood not wish this on my worst enemy thanks for support

Hi.  I am a 41 year old female who has had this for years.  But when it got bad enough to wake me up....they discovered I had thyroid problems.  This and mitral valve prolapse will cause it.  Plus, I've noticed that mine usually occurs during my week of PMS and will calm down once I've started.  So..it can be hormone related also.  Lots of fun things to check out! LOL  Praying you are doing better.  Oh yeah...been under the care of a cardiologist for about 14 years for MVP and he says my heart is great.  So...besides just being scary he acts like it's no big deal. 

Hi, I am 27 year old female and I had these heart skips for a while now. I also had an SVT which would make my heart go into crazy ryhthm and beat over 200 beats a minute but a month ago I had an ablation (surgery that is supposed to fix it) and hopefully that should be gone now .. but now I still feel those crazy skips which drive me nuts because I'm always scared it will put im in the SVT mode.. Did anyone here have an ablation and then still had the extra heart beats..

I've been having the same thing.....take my pulse and you can literally feel it stop beating! It's freaking my wife out not to mention myself. When it happens, it literally feels like it sucks the breathe away from me and forces me to cough most of the time? Has anyone else experienced this. I had my heart checked about 8 months ago because I thought I was having chest pains due to a heart condition....come to find out I had a hiatel hernia. Seems since then the skipping beats has really increased. It is becoming mentally taxing and more frequent.

I started having the heart skipping a beat feeling a week ago. It has freaked me out. I have not been to a doctor yet because i have no insurance and cannot afford it, I also tend to have anxiety and panic attacks. I don't know if i started getting these because I am looking for a new place to live in a different town and some money that i was suppose to receive from my schooling was suppose to be here a few days ago and still has not showed up, plus because of that my family did not get to have a Christmas, so i am not sure if this is the reason why they have started. To much stress which i am under sounds like the cause of what i am feeling. Does anyone else have any input on this that could help me from being so freaked out about the heart skipping a beat feeling? sometimes i can feel it 3 or 4 times within a couple of minutes of each other. I have never experienced this before so i am a bit concerned.

iv had 30 in a day befor if thats help u i think u just need to chill out i know its hard as i have big probs with them thanks sam

OMG this is exacly my problem.....your deceribed it perfect it feels like your breath gets taken away for a second...or its feels really light to breathje.....you explained the feeling i feel prefect. exacly what i have.

Hello, I'm a sixty four year old male who has had SVT all my life, finally had the ablation procedure done, now no problems. However I have also experienced skipped beats before and after the ablation, doctor said there is nothing he could do about it. this is why I'm on this site trying to get more info on the skipped beat problem. But to answer your question, yes I still have the skipped beats after the ablation. For what it's worth my doctor said the two have nothing to with each other or skipping leading to SVT. Best of luck 

Hey, I went to the doctor and I already knew I had MVP since my mom did too. But the doctor did a bunch of tests (he thought I had thyroid prob,) but I had nothing wrong. Alls tests came back negative. He also checked for lupus, and gout. Excercise is really really the key. The point is to get your heart pumping as the doc said, and its so true. I thought I shouldn't exercise and thought I'd die if my heart started to pump fast especially with the skips.......but I checked it myself. I was sitting all day working and my heart was annoying the heck out of me. I got up and did a bunch of jumping jacks and the skip were gone!!! I've also been woken out of my sleep so I know how other people feel. Hope others start to exercise, it's amazing one a short work out or fast movement does for the heart. Meg

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<P>i dont realy know i think its something to do with the electric pulse to your heart iv been having lots this week more then ever like the weekend i had 30 or so and all week lots tonight i have had 3 big ones that literally take your breathe away and shakes your body you think you are never gone recover like thats it the end for u so i dont know if any 1 has them as bsd as me but if so can u give any info on how to control them and all i want to do is sleep</P>