was all going so well.

[errivbr4678778]

so i wasnt getting any flutters for a few days untill im in the bath and i put my chest under the water for a few seconds and come back up and my heart flutters twice like misses 2 beats... im scared its the water pushing up on my chest causing it to flutter idk... im propably overreacting but im anxoius now

[Jeff1943]

Just two beats missed on one occasion in the last few days? I say all is still going well with you. Don't over react because as you know problems of anxiety thrive on fear. Come on, you can afford a couple of missed beats in three days☺ Hope all goes well tomorrow and you get the result you want.

[errivbr4678778 in reply to Jeff1943]

yeah i suppose, i think its the fact when i dont get them for awhile it makes it 10 times worse than when i do get them.. and im confused how they happened when my chest was under water for a few seconds ):

[Usagold in reply to errivbr4678778]

They seem worse for me too when I haven't had them for a while. And, I always get them when i take a hot bath! Which I hate, because hot baths are supposed to be relaxing, and I would like to have one each night before bed as part of my relaxing nighttime routine, but instead I end up anxious over my heart. Also, hot showers. I thought it must be the hot water.

[errivbr4678778 in reply to Usagold]

yeah i think so, they're fine now not getting them but i feel anxoius in myself kinda, have ur flutters calmed down at all?

[Jeff1943 in reply to errivbr4678778]

It shouldn't really make them ten times worse because you've had proof once again that they will go away and hopefully the gaps get longer and longer and the time you have them gets shorter and shorter and then they 'die' of neglect because you're no longer thinking about them.

[Usagold]

It's like mine are coming in spells instead of throughout the day. The only thing I don't like about that is I get so many during the episodes that it scares me, like more than 7/min sometimes. It happened yesterday when I was eating, then when I was driving and last night during my panic attack (they were so bad I didn't even want to count, didn't want to know). I can accept them pretty well when I'm in a stressful situation or when I feel nervous because they make sense, but what scares me is when I feel relaxed and I start getting them like last night when I laid down to go to bed. It wasn't just a few then stop, it kept doing it, several per minute for like an hour. But today has been good. I've probably felt less than 30 all day. I'm trying to not care. But this is my most bothersome symptom. I wonder how many other anxious people get these skips and are really not bothered by them. Seems Jeff is one person who accepts them. Could it be that the ones who aren't bothered by them don't get them BECAUSE they aren't bothered by them? And we get them because we are???

[Jeff1943 in reply to Usagold]

The thing to remember is nobody's heart ever stopped beating because of missed heart beats caused by anxiety and almost all cases of missed heart beats are anxiety. It's easier for me, I only get them very occasionally, 3+1 days this year, a few days a few years ago and a few days about 12 years ago. I know they're going to stop sometime soon so I don't fear them and then suddenly a couple of days later I notice that they're gone. That's what will happen to you two, you'll get BORED with the missed beats and half forget about them and then totally forget about them and then one day you say to yourself "Oh, those missed heart beats have gone." I don't think we'll ever know why hot water brings them on, explain it we cannot.