My heart feels like it is flipping over and seems to stop for a split second then is irrigular sor a split second then it goes into normal rythmn. I does so at maybe 10-30 beats. Also @once to twice a month I will have the dizziness which will last all day. I happens when I get up from a chair and I have to bend my head down for a few seconds to catch up but I am weak the whole day and the next day it is gone. The heart flipping or skipping or whatever has me really scared. I called for an appt. but can't get in until the 20th of this month. I am afraid I will go to bed and not wake up. I really need advice. Thanks, Glenda S.
1/15/09 1:13pm
Hi Glenda....
I've had the same symptoms with my heart (like my heart does a big flip and then stalls for about 3 seconds before it starts beating regularly again). Sometimes it will keep doing it over and over again before getting back to normal. I too was scared and went to Loma Linda Heart Center where they did an EKG, a treadmill and made me where a heart monitor for 30 days. Turns out I have an irregular heartbeat where my heart will have an extra beat (the flipping feeling) and then the heart pauses a second before beating regularly. I was like you, afraid to go to sleep. The doctor said its nothing to worry about and that its more bothersome than anything. They call it PAC's. Hope this helped.
Brenda
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