Irregular heart beat question heart beat / anxiety?

What you are experiencing is most likely a premature ventricular contraction better known as a PVC. These are quite normal, even in healthy people. I experience them as well. Most of the time what causes PVC's can be anything from spicy food, stress, hormonal imbalances, vitamin deficiency, not enough sleep etc.

PVC's can also happen because most people who have anxiety have a heightened awareness of what is happening in their body. You take more notice of things that you might otherwise discard as normal such as a heart flutter, palpitation, skipped beat, etc. I find this to be true most of the time when I am experiencing these sensations. My solution to this is to keep myself busy so that I am not thinking about it so much.

I also suffer from frequent indigestion that lasts for hours for the same reason described above. Take some tums, drink a lot of water, and get a good nights rest.

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Irregular heart beat question heart beat / anxiety?

I had a panic attack back in june and I have been feeling really good lately no more panic attacks and no more symptoms for a few months now. However last night I noticed my heart was giving off a fluttering feeling I didn't mind because when I check my wrist pulse I can feel my heart is beating...

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I have a few thoughts about what you've written that I'm hoping will help or at least point you in a useful direction...

Are you still taking the clonazepam? Did your symptoms get worse when you started taking it? Maybe you are having a "paradoxical reaction" to them. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_reaction

If you are not feeling well, it is easy to see why you would become anxious about it. But, it doesn't sound like the root of your problems is a real chemical imbalance (i.e., anxiety). Ask anyone who has suffered with undiagnosed symptoms or a chronic illness. One's "mood" will inevitably be affected. But, these are secondary symptoms as a result of chronicity.

I have read in one of your previous questions that you were prescribed a medication for "acid"? If the hypothesis is GERD/gastritis, make sure you have been tested for h. pylori. It is a simple blood test. The gold standard for a GERD diagnosis is ph monitoring and for gastitis, histopathological biopsies are obtained and analyzed from a esophagoduodenoscopy.

If, by "acid" medication, you mean, a proton pump inhibitor, you should know that they take about 2 weeks to become effective. You may not feel better until then. Do not stop taking them. Sometimes the first proton pump inhibitor you try will not work. You may have to try others. Prevacid 30 mg b.i.d is a good place to start.

You may wish to request a "gastric emptying test" to assess the possibility of gastroparesis:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gastroparesis/DS0...

In any event, prokinetics, like domperidone (a good choice over metoclopramide for it's minimal blood-brain barrier penetration) may provide you with some relief. If you don't have gastroparesis, domperidone (10 mg, tds) may help treat your cited gastroesophageal symptoms by inducing acetylcholinergic increases in lower esophageal sphincter pressure.

Have you had an x-ray of your chest? I was thinking, perhaps, you have a hiatal hernia. Perhaps a sliding haital hernia, if these symptoms are intermittent?

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hiatal-hernia/DS0...

I noted in your other Q's, you mentioned your doctor, "rolling her eyes" regarding your symptoms. YOU know there is something wrong. Persist in this endeavour. The problem with MD's is that, all too often, if you don't fit a common mold, YOU are blamed. It takes effort to think of rare etiologies for symptoms and it is often easier to blame you (or, pass you off to a specialist which may, in turn, pass you off to another one). I get the feeling this is what has indeed happened given your anxiety diagnosis, in light of the fact that many anxiety meds have not worked, at least for your "chest/gas" issues. I know how hard it is to "fight" for your health, when you are already not feeling well. Don't give up and be true to yourself. See another doc, if you have to. Find someone who will listen, believe you, and put the pieces of this puzzle together. MD's, in my opinion, are consultants, working for YOU, and should be regarded as such.

Best wishes and good luck!

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PVC's for an entire year, day after day after day. One day they just stopped.....for 5 months! Then, with no warning they started back up. Every single day now. All day long. Sitting in a chair relaxing and here they go, 2 beats/skip, 50/100 times in a row....on and on......all day long.

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