I have suffered from irregular hearts beats for many years in different forms, ie either extra thuds or missing beats.. Recently how ever i have been getting beats where if i put my fingers to my neck to feel my pulse i can actually feel my heart stop for a second, the only way i can describe it is as if you have taken a breath in, then because i panic my heart then starts to beat rapidly after the missed beat, but now it has started doing it in runs say for instance, mainly first thing in the morning it will do about 3 or 4 stopped beats in a row, by the time its stopped im shaking and my heart is racing because of the panic that my heart isn,t going to re start.. i take tylex, omeperazole, i have recently stopped drinking to excess and now have a glass of wine maybe every couple of weeks, i am a smoker, smoking around 20-30 a day..Its affecting my life now because im scared to go out in case it happens, and if it happens when people talk to me i have to just stop talking and they look at me like im mad. Does anyone get the same thing and if so what do i do.
very scared