Palpatations: Missed Beat 1 In 10 For 2 Months ... Any Ideas

I'm 29 and I'm having the skipped beat feelings also. I smoked off and on for several years, but quit 3 years ago. I do have high blood pressure as well and was recently switched from Dyazide to Lisinopril, which I noticed this got frequent when I changed the medicine. I just wonder if I can switch to something else that wouldn't do this. It scares me. I do have an appointment with a cardiologist on the 13th of August, so I'm a little nervous over that. Hopefully I won't have anything wrong.

Hi, I'm new to this site and have read of your concerns about palpatations. I'm no doctor, but have CHF and had massive heart attack nearly 5 yrs. ago. I also have a defib. It wasn't until after my surgery and a 3 wk. stay in the hospital that I was told I needed to see an Endochrinologist (thyroid dr). No one ever said anything to me about the importance of your thyroid in relation to your heart. After being tested and put on a regimen of meds., my palpations lessened significantly. It's just a thought....make sure you have your thyroid tested. A dysfunctional thyroid can lead to heart attacks. Good Luck!

Celeste2

I feel your pain. I have had the skip a beat thing for a while but this week had a couple of really bad days so I'm back to the specialist this afternoon. I was told by one doctor that it's actually an extra beat but sure feels like a missed beat to me followed by the big bang after each one to compensate.

I wish I had found this site a long time a go as there is definitley a sense of relief knowing that others are suffering (and surviving) the same thing. If the specialist gives me anything that might help any of you I'll be back on here tonight to let you know.
All the best and don't let this thing "BEAT" you.

Hi....I know this has been said, but thank god I found this place. A month ago I was sitting in our truck going to a camping trip and I felt my heart beating in my throat then my arms got tingly then my face. It last maybe 30 sec but I felt off most of the day. Didn't happen again for 10 days. Ended up in ER they said I was anemic, kept me overnight, wanted to run more tests, CT of lungs showed no blood clot. They think it is anemia but I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis and am NOT being treated at the moment, my insurance woudln't pay for all the expensive meds so was just going the asprin route. We have new insurance and I see doc next week.

Well I had the palps again Sunday night really bad, arms go numbish, face flushes feels hot and tight. Last 15 hours. Saw doc 2 days later, the still is testing me for Thyroid, Anemia....Poo pooed the Peri Menopause thought. I have been having skipped beats all week and feel flush and weird afterwards.

I am getting a Stress/echo at the end of the month. My kids are scared to death
Any thoughts??

I am a 26/m from Panama City Beach, Florida who has been experiencing palpatations for the past 3 years. I have had a fourteen year drug history and have smoked and drank for that period also. I started having anxiety attacks sometime last year too. I recently went to a cardiologist to get tests done on my palpatations and was told that my tests came back normal. I also went to the emergency room because it seemed like every other beat was a weird one. To describe the beats it feels like my heart is rolling over and at times feels like a drum is playing inside me. It gets so strong that I can feel it in my throat and sometimes makes my arm hurt. What sucks for me is hearing the doctors say"there is nothing wrong with you" and "try not to think about it". My question to them and to you all is how am I not suppose to think about my heart doing cartwheels every five seconds? Do any of you guys know how to take your mind off of your crazy heartbeat?

I do know that limiting your caffeine and cutting back, if not quitting all together the smoking habit, would help out a lot. And a good cardio excersice daily seems to help too. But how am I not suppose to think about something that feels like it is gonna make my heart burst or give me a heart attack? All i know is for 23 years of my life I never experienced one irregular heartbeat then out of the blue they started happening all the time. Does anyone know why all of the sudden they started? A good referral to a medicine would be nice too, even though I kinda am against medication, unless it will make this stop

I found the postings informative, and helped me relax until I could talk to a med. prof.
I am 66 yrs. old. My last ekg was perfect and my last stress test I did fantastic, beating my triathlete husband (who is younger). My family history is pretty strong in the heart dept. My missed beats started just recently during our heat spell, working outside in the garden when it was 103 degrees. I listened to my heartbeat on my old stethoscope, and sure enough, about every sixth beat and then this 'rush' of blood, giving the sensation of lightheadedness. I do, however, know what the cause may be. I am not a great drinker, and certain alcoholic beverages seem to bring this on, for instance, pear cider and asti spamati, both have flavorings etc. Some kaluah's do the same. If I really want to bring it on I get in the hot tub for a few minutes and have a small shot of kaluah, and there they are. Maybe my experience will help, as we are all in this together! Sante'

Diddo to all you have all said. I have had through my life a once in a six-month and no more extra throat thumps of my heart. 2 years ago, I did the whole body scan, just to see. My heart (I am 52), I was told by the operator, had a calcium level of absolute zero, none detectable anywhere. I am not over weight, nor have any medical issues, and don't typically drink coffee, booze, or smoke, etc.

Then one day, I thought I was going to die. Every 5th beat, a pre ignition beat, then a make-up beat. After a day of this, I went to a cardio, he did every test, echo, stress, EKG, found that when I ran fast, there were no extra beats. He promised me that based on the scan, tests, etc, I wasn't going to die.

It still bothered me, because I don't have a lot of stress, and don't do all the bad things, eat healthy, work at home, etc. I wanted to know what the hell was going on and why now.

So it went down for a while, and just went up again. I went to see him today and said that I just can't deal with it. I want to either find the problem or treat it.

I took my first pill of Toprol XL tonight, 25 mg.

I will give a day by day. Stay tuned.

I took 25 mg right before bed, and (some say it takes a few days) it seemed like my heart settled down nicely. It was like that all through the day, until about 3PM when it appeared to wear off.

Tonight I took one after dinner, and it seems like nothing has happened.

I'll keep it up and see. If last night was any indication, it was like going back 10 years. No side effects either.

If it takes a few day, then maybe I need Xanax instead... Last night may have been in my head.

Well, this is the end of this crap. My palps are worse, chest pains, I sleep well, but at night, right before I take it again, I start feeling like a failure. At noon, I fall asleep. I have contacted my cariologist and will have him get me off of this. You can't stop suddenly. Back to the drawing board.

pl. send me the reason

im strangely only 16, and i was just working at school and had a flutter within my heart. As im only young i was worried, and friends close to me have died because of heart problems at my age. I went to the gp just for a general check up however, i wasnt convinced that a heart beat through a periscope would do the job. Ive also had a few more flutters, but im happpy with the advice about the low calcium in my diet, or the amount of stress im going through because of exams thank you for all ur advice, xx im happy now

hi everyone!!

It's been awhile since i've wrote about my problems.. I have been dealing with this thud in my chest, and skipping beats since about 3yrs ago. I'm guessing it has to do with caffeine.. And of course smoking. ive never been to the dr about this, and when i was younger i had really bad anxeity disorder, and i know how to calm myself down if i'm having one, but i can't seem to fix my heart problem.. It scart me so bad one time, it gave me a serious anxeity attack.. I almost went to the hospital, but i didn't. What kind of vitamins does anyone recommend to take.

Hello everyone!!

My name is Nathan and I'm a personal trainer but i'm different to most as i'm into the Health side more than i'm into Fitness. Like a lot of you i experience some of the symptoms of palpatation and miss beats. I have had checks( ecg and a blood test). I have recently have had no problem what so ever. I have basically been drinking minimum 2 ltr of water a day. drinking no caffeine and no alcohol, no sweets or chocolate also been eatting as best as possible. For example- Big breakfast, good lunch (Jacket potatoes, pasta, tuna fish, baked beans, nuts and pulses' etc). Cut out pastry based food.

My dinner is more than likely to be the smallest meal of the day.

What i did find is when i do have these problem, it occurs when the whether is cold.

Does your symptoms get worse.

Hi everyone-- I feel for everyone with these missed heart beats. I have a lot of information for you and some remedies. In todays world I don't think the doctors care to much as long as their getting their money for your visit, or they've had them themselves-- you've got to do your own research. Look out for #1.
I had these missed heartbeats for about 10 years and the symtoms are all
the same-- you feel like your missing a beat and a thump in your chest and also
you may feel a little light headed-- I'm sure you'll agree. You also won't likely feel these missed beats when your walking-- I'll tell you why.
I've read about 3 books on the heart now and I wanted to understand this to help myself. I couldn't stand these missed beats and it didn't seem to matter to any of these doctors. They all
do what they can but they really don't know why they happen-- at least most of them don't. The best book you can read is the heart ecyclopedia and it's written by Gabrielle Khan and he's a professor
of cardiology at the university of Ottawa
in Canada-- I found it very informative.
My missed heartbeats went away for
the last 3 years and they just have come back. I think it's from stress and anxiety right now as I have a lot to do for the upcoming year and I think that's affecting me-- I believe I'll get rid of them again. I'll give it to you straight.
Firstly the biggest contributor to my missed heart beats was caffeine- for sure
I drank diet pepsi and coffee all day. About 3 cups of coffee and lots of diet pepsi-- both contain caffeine. I stopped
drinking caffeine totally and they went away. I use to have these missed beats
so bad that I'd have a little diet pepsi with a meal and they would come on. If I had other stresses to add on to that they
would feel like thunder in my chest- very
hard thumps -- quite scary.
Now-- why is this happening?? answer
thru my research I found out that caffeine and stress both stimulate the adrenal glands and the sympathetic nervous system. When the sympathetic nervous system is stimulated it releases
adrenaline-- usually to help you-- example somebody wants to fight or attack you-- your system will release adrenaline to make your heart pump more forcefully to pump blood to your muscles so you can fight or run-- natures way of a defence system for you.
If your drinking to much coffee and you also have a stessful life your system is going to be producing more adrenaline than it needs. What this does is it affects
the "sinus node" which is a highly specialized and sensitive set of cells that
conduct the electrical stimulous that your
heart requires to beat rythmically. The sinus node is located in the upper right atrium of the heart. The heart has 4 chambers- 2 upper atriums and 2 lower
ventricles. The lower left venticle is the
main pumping chamber of the heart and
it's rersponsible for pumping out reoxygenated blood to the body.
What this extra adrenaline does is interferes with the sinus node and causes
interference with the rythmic electical shocks that make the heart beat rythmically. To prove this to yourself you can do this and get rid of your missed beats very easy--only temporarily and I'll
tell you how. This would apply to people with healthy hearts only -- after you've been told your heart checks out medically.
As I said above the problem is an over
stimulated sympathetic nervous system producing to much adrenaline-- medical books refer to it as epinephrine or nora
drenaline-- all the same thing.
Here's how to get rid of them for about 3 hours in about 3-5 minutes-- it works great for me but I really don't like to do it
but it's a lot better than the missed beats.
Take 5 mg's of valium or you may only need 2.5 mg's and at the same time
tale one ounce of vodca with a 50% alcohol contant-- 40% is OK in a rum or something and your missed heart beats will go away-- for sure!!!-- why is this???
Because alcohol is a deppressant of the nervous systen and the valium is to sedate or calm down the nervous sytem.
If you do this you will see that I'm right. I've been taking valium for anxiety for 10 years and since then I've never had a panic attach either-- it's a graet safe drug and it's cheap. It does not affect your sex drive and it doers not affect your thinking and make you feel like a zombie.( like a lot of anti-deppresants)
The doctors don't like to prescribe it-- why???-- because the pharmaceutical companies have told them it's bad and addictive so they can sell there expensive anti-deppressant drugs like
Zoloft and Paxil-- to name a few, I think
those anti deppressants make you feel wierd and that their dangerous for some people. The people that have these missed beats like I do are likely high strung people or have too much stress in their life and their system is going thru
a hormone imbalance-- much like a diabetic when the pancreas has to deal with an overload of sugars to break down
eventually something going to give and
you will soon be a diabetic-- look at all
the young people that are-- bad diets to high in sugars.
The last thing I'd recommend is a beta
blocker called metoprolol-- its pretty strong and it blocks adrenaline going to the heart-- there are others as well and they all end in-- ol-- Persoanally I don't like them because they affect your sex drive and I'll only take them the odd time
when my missed beats are bad.
I should add that they are not really "missed" beats but what they are is 2 beats happening almost simultaneously and not in proper rythym making them feel like a missed beat-as
an endochronologist explained to me.
i HOPE THIS HELPED SOME OF YOU.

Bye the way--I don't really buy into the
thinking that alcohol causes the mised
beats--probably the caffeine in the mix--
like coke or pepsi-- some people's systems can't handle caffeine-I'm one!!
GOOD LUCK!!!

18mths ago I had a sudden onset of rapid heart beat, I was in hospital wired up all day, to my reliief it stopped as suddenly as it started but I was give medication which Im still taking. A few weeks after I went to private heart surgeon in Harley St I was that worried, Im not well off but somehow I raked up the money to put my mind at rest. Ater extensive tests the specialist said the results were good and I had nothing to worry about. For the last year or more I have been having palpitations and odd feelings and am unable to get on with my life, sometimes it keeps me awake, I feel like its anxiety, or worry its the medication Im taking.

Listen guys,
Not sure bc not a dr., but after deciding to see if my caffeine in coffee was the culprit for my palpatations, I stopped drinking it. I also drank silver needle tea. I don't have any symptoms of palpatations anymore. It stopped right away. I also worried because I do cross trainer and my heart rate was like 52 or 63 at the end of my workout. Some say it is connected to chronic fatigue syndrome, but if I eat less and stay away from coffee and sweet things I feel soo much better. But, after going to my dr one dr. a cardiologist and one dr. internist who thought it might be my premarin. She the internist just looked at me and said, "I have no clue what it could be." So, hopefully I have discovered it myself and until other symptoms come up I will just not eat as much, eliminate sugar and caffeine and see how I feel. If there are any dr. out there let me know...and by the way does anyone know about a symptom of cfs being long toes and fingers. The report about caffeine and if you are allergic to it is scary as it can cause many horrible things such as anxiety, dementia, and poisoning of brain cells...and more.
If there is a dr in the house please respond to me.

I'm not a Doc but when I had them.. I gave up caffine, and they stopped.. I also found I would have them the day after having a few drinks the night before.. and still do.

So you can find out what triggers them and control them. I have.

Hello it's Nathan the Personal trainer again, I forgot to mention about Heart Math which is a very good way of balancing both types of autonomic nerver system.

Autonomic nerves -
1 calms you down (Para sympathetic nerves)and 1 makes you fight or flight (sympathetic nerves).

The technique is to breath in slowly for 5 seconds and breath out for 5 seconds. If you do this for 1 min, four times a day. You will feel massive improvements as your body will become gradually more balanced.

Give it a few week and emails your camments as that would be great for feedback

By the way i have now got the cayenne pepper supplement and co enzyme q10. Will give you feedback!!

Hi, I was searching the internet this morning trying to find some info on missing heart beat, palpitations etc when I stumbled across this website. After following various leads on the net, I discovered "Cayenne Pepper" - apparently very good for heart conditions. So I thought I would give it a go - pretty disgusting stuff to drink - half a teaspoon in a very large glass of warm water - but hey presto, you know what - the heart has steadied up and the palpitations stopped! I was so amazed I thought I had better contact this website and tell you about it as so many people seem to be suffering like I was. Apparently Cayenne tincture is the way to go, so I have ordered some from Neal's Yard, but until then, it is cayenne pepper and warm water 3 times a day!
Hope this will help some of you.
Sally