Visible heart beat.

[Valdoot]

Hi I'm stood here and my heart is beating quite hard, I can see my clothes moving , Im feeling good, and the beat is quite regular thankfully. I'm just wondering? Is it normal to be able to see the chest and clothes moving like this? It's not just slight, it's quite pronounced. I do get this a lot and I also can feel my heart beat pulsing on my stomach area at night. I'm on 1.5 bisoprolol per day. Thankyou

[wendicarro]

Oh yes! its very common, a bit freaky when you first notice it but normal.

Wendi

[Valdoot in reply to wendicarro]

Thanks Wendi. Its not doing it now. Our poor little hearts struggling along!

[777777]

Yes I could see my heart beating fast, It was the first time I had seen it and I thought it must be this afib.

[Valdoot in reply to 777777]

I wasn't in AF, and I felt well, it's as if my heart was labouring. Quite scared. Nice to know it's not just me. Cheers.👍👍

[momist]

Yes Valdoot I've had that too. I wouldn't call it normal but since it stops on its own I've been ignoring it.

[Valdoot in reply to momist]

I've got an appointment with cardiologist end of Oct for the results of my nuclear test. I'll ask him and report back . Thankyou

[Mike11]

What's your BP ? Get a cheap monitor and see if there's a correlation with a high BP which might be useful for your consultant to know

[Valdoot in reply to Mike11]

Good thinking Mike I will do. Cheers

[Emgee in reply to Mike11]

My BP was always normal when I experienced SVT's - but I did notice the hollow of my neck on the right side, showed the beating of my heart. It looked as though a finger was poking up the skin in the hollow. Nothing showed on the left side where I would gently massage the carotid artery to put my heartbeats back to normal again.

[Mike11 in reply to Emgee]

Well at least you can tell your doctor what it isn't now as I suspect raised BP would have been their first thought as well

[Dodie117]

I get this too and especially feeling the beat at night. I find breathing exercise help and think it might be the vagus nerve that's unsettled.

Breathe in for count of 7, out for count of 11. Do this for 5 to 10 minutes. It slows everything down and seems to work for me.

Worth a try

[Valdoot in reply to Dodie117]

Thankyou! I,ll try that. Its quite in nerving.

[Emgee]

Hello Valdoot. I had SVTs for 37 years and was on various meds to keep the heartbeats controlled. I was told various ways to end the SVTs, but found they did not work, until I discovered massaging my carotid artery usually converted to a normal sinus rhythm. The first time I had an SVT, I was at my desk at work and my whole blouse was moving up and down. I went to emergency and it stopped just before I saw the doctor. He read the ECG and told me my heartbeats were just over 200bpm. He said it was probably a one off and may never occur again. Well, that was incorrect, as I experienced SVTs for the next 37 years. The last time I went to ER about them, neither Adenocard injection nor Cardioversion would correct it for more than a few minutes - so ablation was ordred by the attending doctor. I had the ablation April 28, but suffered a pierced heart and was diagnosed with tamponade. They thought I'd have to had open heart surgery to fix things, but an echo with contrast showed the bleeding had stopped and I was just to be observed and given regular echos to watch things. I was told a 'scab' had formed over the bleeding area at the top of my heart and I am now just under my regular cardiologist and famly doctor's care. My SVTs made me feel I should be running to keep up with my heart.

Hope you will revert to NSR from now on and suffer no more PSVTs or SVTs.