Hi I’m 17 and have Sinus Arrhythmia my heart rate goes from 55 when exhaling to 70-80 when inhaling. I wondered if that ratio is normal.
Also is it normal to feel your heart beat When resting because I do all the time wondered if maybe it was beating forcefully.
How do you know it does it? Is it what an apple watch tells you? Or have you had proper investigations?
It’s what a Fitbit told me and I also counted the beats by myself. Still waiting for go appointment, just wanted some opinions and what I should ask gp to check or if it’s normal
It's apparently perfectly benign and normal.
I know sinus arrhythmia is benign but they say it’s mostly a fraction of a beat increase when Inhaling when mine is 30beats increase . Also do you feel your heart beating when resting
Hi there. Sinus arrhythmia is just the term for the increase in heart rate on breathing in that you describe (often referred to as respiratory sinus arrhythmia): it’s not an abnormality in the way other things described as an arrhythmia can be, many people’s heart rates increase when they breathe in, but it’s very commonly seen in children and young, healthy adults. It’s generally only considered to indicate a problem in older adults when it happens alongside other heart issues. There is no established ‘only an increase of between this number of bpm and this number of bpm’ is normal for respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and at 17 you’re classed as more or less physiologically adult, so normal resting heart rate for someone of your age would generally be considered to be anything between 60 and 100bpm. However, it’s widely acknowledged that many young, healthy individuals, and some older adults who are physically quite fit will have a resting heart rate somewhere between 50 and 100bpm, with really athletic and fit individuals potentially having a resting heart rate in the 40s without it being any kind of medical problem.
Being able to feel your own heart beat is also a common phenomenon, even at rest, and on its own is nothing at all to be worried about. Palpitations - which literally just means having an awareness of your heart beating somewhere in your body - just occur in some people for no particular reason at all, they’re just more able to feel their heartbeat than others, but are also generally quite common in people that are stressed and anxious. With benign palpitations that are nothing to worry about, it’s often the case that the more you notice them the more you keep noticing them regardless of the cause, so it can become a bit of a vicious circle, particularly if anxiety is a factor.
Nothing you’ve said makes me feel particularly worried, and well done for consulting this forum rather than going off and googling, but if you are even slightly concerned about anything to do with your heart, you should definitely arrange to go and see your doctor. They’re the people medically qualified to tell you if everything is ok or not, whereas we’re all just a bunch of well-meaning amateurs.
Very interesting thanks. I don’t really understand what palpitations are as there seems to be a lot of different definitions like heart beating irregularly or fluttering, racing which I don’t get any of those or like you said having an awareness of your heart which I do have
The word palpitation does literally just mean an awareness of your heartbeat, that’s it. It can occur anywhere in the body, so it could be feeling your pulse in your throat throbbing, your heart beating in your chest, or hearing your pulse in your ears. The confusion with the word stems from when people talk about having palpitations that are associated with heart problems. For people without a heart problem, palpitations are just that awareness or feeling of the heart beating in a nice, rhythmic, steady pattern. For people with heart problems, palpitations can sometimes be the feeling of the heart beating abnormally because of the underlying heart problem they have, and rather than saying my arrhythmia caused palpitations today, people often tend to just say they had palpitations. I have an arrhythmia triggered by a type of premature heartbeat, both of which I quite often feel as palpitations when they happen, but I also regularly have palpitations when my heart is beating normally. Both my sisters (aged 19 and 28) also experience palpitations, and neither of them have any kind of heart problem. It really is a common occurrence to have palpitations without there being anything wrong with your heart, just as some people with serious heart problems never experience any palpitations at all.
IRREGULAR HEART BEAT 
Irregular heart beat 
target heart beat during exercise 
Etopic heart beats and feeling dizzy
Amlodipine caused irregular heart beats
