Does anybody suffer from palpitations

[Cockerspaniel]

Hiya i would like to know if anybody on here suffers with palpitations were u can feel your heart pounding against your chest even when you are not anxious

[donaf]

Yes I do from time to time, even if I'm not feeling anxious x

[RedDelight27]

Hiya,

I do too also when I'm not anxious....I noticed if I drank coke or Pepsi or normal tea that would trigger them aswell so I've cut way down on coke and Pepsi and I now drink decaf tea which has helped loads Palpitations aren't as bad now

[donaf]

Yea of cut down on coke Pepsi and coffee as there known to make it worse xxx

[Cockerspaniel]

well i got my heart checked out about 8 yrs ago and they found ventricular ectopics then when i started with anxiety and my heart was going fast i had another heart scan 24 hr tape,i can always feel my heart beating in general anyway so it freaks me out when it starts with the pounding feeling and then i start to get anxious,i went the docs last week and he just said when it happens go straight to a@e so they can pick it up on monitor,oh that would really make my anxiety worse,my doctors are prob fed up with me,i still feel like there is something up with my heart.

[Hidden]

Hi. Cocker. Palpitations can trigger an anxiety state in those who do not understand what is happening. That was my experience and exactly what started me off. Many years ago I was working and had a bout of palpitations that really threw me. If only I had the understanding then that I now have! I came home and for the next year or so was so worried that I finally went to the doctors. ECG's showed nothing but I was sure they had missed something!!

That was many years ago and I still get them but they do not worry me one little bit. I just accept them for what they are, a nervous blip in the heart muscle. Anyway, I am talking about 30 years ago and it hasn't killed me yet!! As for the 'pounding' bit yes, same thing. Try to accept how you feel because the more anxious and worried you are the more you will get pounding and palpitations. You are giving "IT" the fuel to continue. Hope you feel better. Kind regards. jonathan.

[vanessafsimoes in reply to Hidden]

Hello! I'm 21 years old and I'm very anxious.

I had always been an athlete until my 18 years, when after a run i felt heart palpitations. Then I stoped.

I used to be very scary when i had an extrasystole but with time i learned how to control myself beacause i had once in a while.

But now my problem is different. I'm feeling a lot of extrasystoles followed.

I feel the hart beat inside, he's slow and he's uncontrolled. I feel everything! One heart beat, a pause of 3 seconds, another heart beat, and always like this. The heart beats are strong, it's like a trembling muscle but on inside and this muscle is my heart!

When I go to the hospital my heart is already calm and the doctors never see anything...

Does anyone else feels the same?

Vanessa, from Portugal.

[hairyfairy]

Yes, Ive had them from time to time since my teens. They used to have me worried to death because I have a family history of heart disease, but Iv`e had several tests, including a tough treadmill test, & everything checked out fine. I do find palpitations unsettling, but then I remember the results of the tests, & I calm down.

[Hidden in reply to hairyfairy]

Hi. hairyfairy. Of course they calm down because your MOOD changes when you think about the tests. This is the only control we have over our involuntary nervous system, our moods. Otherwise we have no control, thank goodness.

Love and best wishes. jonathan.

[Cockerspaniel]

Thanks everyone for your kind replies,so when i feel a pounding of my heart for no reason and its going slightly faster and i am not even anxious should i just try and relax and let it take its course?

[Hidden in reply to Cockerspaniel]

Hi. Yes, relax by all means but relaxation in itself will not help in the long term as relaxation, to a nervously ill person, usually means sitting around. And sitting around encourages contemplation and that is a real no no. If your GP has given you the OK (and that is necessary) then do not try to forget it. You will not succeed anyway. Go with it there but ACCEPT how you feel for the moment. It will go but you have to take the fear out of it. By ACCEPTING you do just that. You say you are not anxious about it. If you are not anxious about it then you have solved the problem.

Very best wishes. jonathan.

[Lindenlea]

I have had palpitations many years, and I get them in my throat as if I am choking, I keep touching and counting the beats, it scares me to death, and I panic, I can be sitting in the armchair on the laptop, and they start, for no reason ,I panic and have a husband who has altizheimers which is making me worse, I try the deep breathing, but this does not help its a really horrid scares me to pieces, any suggestions to get rid of it please. I have suffered for many years with anxiety, feel so alone, bless lindenlea