This is the first time I've posted in the health section. I usually go to the computers Have any of you ever had heart beat skips? Mine started about June. It is more noticeable at night and I wonder if that is because I slow down more at night and can just feel them or what. I have a doctor appt. in October but was just wondering if anyone has this and if you know the cause. Thanks.

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Originally posted by becca:
This is the first time I've posted in the health section. I usually go to the computers Have any of you ever had heart beat skips? Mine started about June. It is more noticeable at night and I wonder if that is because I slow down more at night and can just feel them or what. I have a doctor appt. in October but was just wondering if anyone has this and if you know the cause. Thanks.

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Here is a web page that discusses this problem and has many links to other information also. (BTW, I deleted your post as you wanted in the other question)

Thanks Sherasi, I appreciate that. I am headed to that site right now.

Sherasi, What a great site you gave me. I think I narrowed it down to caffeine and stress. I do drink too much coffee, and I work in an Alzheimer's center, so there is the stress part. Thanks a bunch. Still going to keep my appt. at the doctor's though.

Glad to have eased your mind, at least until you speak with your physician.

My older sister and I both have palpatations. We have since birth. They have never found a reason for them, or a problem with them, except when we have to go under anesthsia they just have to monitor us more closely.

It is aggravating more than anything. Laying there at night trying to go to sleep and having your heart feel like it's going to jump out of you chest. Or finally sitting down after a long day to relax and can't cause you feel like you have to breath deeper or something to get it to quite. I am sure of the cause but will feel more at ease after my appointment is over.

Hiya! I'm presently in the appointment stage of getting my strange & interesting ticker looked at as well. It's irregular also in that it will beat normally say 6 times, then "hiccup", then be normal a few more times, then "hiccup". Problem is every time I get to the Docs, it's regulated. I've had Holter Monitors in the past, where a monitor is attched to you by leads for about 24 hours and once it showed something odd, but then I got caught up in life and it ended up on the back burner. I asked my doc just a week ago what other options are available and he told me about a Cardiac Events Monitor, where you hang onto a piece of equipment for up to a month and when you feel the strange sensation or irregularities you hold it over your heart and it records what is happening as it happens. Then it's diagnosed and you're off onto whatever the next stage of treatment, if necessary, may be.

Good luck and hope it all turns out well.

I had this, too, when I was younger. The doctor gave me some pills and told me that if I was going to try to raise 5 kids, go to school full time, work full time, and stay up late drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and studying, I could expect a lot more than palps in the future.

I took his advice and haven't been troubled since. Once in a while my heart will sort of catch its breath, then I know I'm doing something wrong.

Catty (urp!)

Had my doctor appt. The heart palpations may be due to stress she says, (I work with alzheimers patients) My EKG showed up abnormal, have to go in for an ECHO stress test. Anyways she put me on toprol for the palpations and VERY rarely does it skip a beat now, maybe once every 4 days where before it was allllll day long lol. so... until the ECHO test...... Ask your doctor about toprol for the palpations, it sure is nice to go to bed at night without my heart feeling like its going to jump out of my chest.