THE FEAR IS BACK!!!!

Manley · Post by **Manley** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:06 pm

hey guys, today was a better day overall except that when i went swimming with my friends and family i had the scariest heart palpitation and i immediately reacted to it and got scared. i do get them often here and their and its usually like beat, beat, skip, beat beat and so on. this one was like beat, skip, skip, beat, skip,skip skip than a beat and that's extremely not normal for me, i checked my pulse right away and i couldn't even feel one. this palpitaion went on for a spand of 8 seconds or so. is this normal? can anyone relate? and all day i was doing great until this, its created some anxiety of course and now i'm fearing my next palpitation. i seen a specialist already and he said their were no chances of me having anything wrong with my heart and it was less than 1 percent. that was at the beginning of january. is it common for me to get them 2 or 3 times a day. i was doing great guys now i'm back to the fear state and i know if i go into the emergency their gonna tell me everything is fine on the ekg. so the fear is back when i had already gotten over this, it was a different palp for sure it felt like someone was crumpling up a piece of paper or something, it just didn't feel right to me.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:28 pm

a better way to describe it would be that i have experienced 2 types of palps. the first one would be like "oh" their was a palpitation and this one felt like my heart was having a spasm. and it lasted for around 8 seconds. i'm looking up previous posts looking for reassurance and i am finding people who have this like myself

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:10 pm

My friend had this problem and went to the doctors and everything. However her heart stress was due to her own stress in life. She was healthy otherwise, excpet the stress caused her heart to work overload. I told her that she needed to relax (not the easiest thing in the world to do) but I also told her - do something that makes you happy. It doesn't matter what it is as long as you are truly happy doing it. It could be listening to music, reading a book, going someplace nice, anything. Being happy does help you to relax and calm yourself down. So give it a try yourself. Find what makes you really happy and do it, or eat it, it can be food too. ^_^

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:38 am

Manley,

yeah, this is a true tale sign of anxiety.

mine will do the same thing.

when i was diagnosed with panic disorder last March and fighting daily, heart palps were all of the time. i was scared to work out for fear that exercise was so similar to panic feelings i thought that something was going to happen to me at the gym. as I have been recovering, it happens less and less. now, its practically never.

but yes, i too experienced the same thing.

i think that you will find it to be perhaps the most common symptom that everyone on here has felt at one point or another.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:50 am

Manley: I have these all of the time. This is my reason for having an anxiety disorder. I am prone to have PVC's or premature ventricular constractions, which does beat skip, skip, beat, and sometimes I feel it stop. It has always started again. If I could cure these weird heartbeats I would have no anxiety. I have had this since I was 20. I have been to three cardiologists and all have assured me there is nothing wrong with my heart. But when I have one I go right into panic mode. My doctor tells me this is normal and is a instinctive bodily response. I have to be reassured that I'm not going to die. It's very, very, uncomfortable and makes me angry because I have no control over it. I've been on Toprol for four years. I still get skipped beats. Sometimes I get them when I am relaxed watching television. I have them when I'm sleeping. I think I probably have a mild arrythmia. Keep the faith, they come and go,
Kathy