Just wondered if anyone else experiences skips/flutters (ectopics) while exercising? I never did before but do now. I’m in my late twenties and used to exercise every day for 2 hours and now can barely make a 30 min fast walk. My heart skips and jumps. It does this when im not active but my concern is that it’s doing it when I am active. I have had a Holter that shows the ectopics (didn’t have them on exercise of course when I had the monitor ) and a echo that was normal. I had a normal stress test 2 years ago but nothing recent.
These completely run my life and cause me so much anxiety.
Basically I’m wondering if I’m alone in this or not ?
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I have ectopics that occur at any time even when I'm walking for exercise. They are worse after a period of stress, nervous tension, or dehydration. They cause me anxiety, but I am trying to remind myself that they're usually harmless, just disruptive. I had them a few years ago following my husband's death and a heart ablation for SVT and they kept up until I basically lost my fear of them, which took 18 months, and they went away . Now, five years later, they're back following a period of emotional stress, and I'm caught up in the same loop of fear and overthinking which make them worse. Calming your nervous system and accepting them helps so much. I'm working on that now and wishing you good luck because I know how scary they are.
Have a look at your lifestyle being a possible contributor? Do you smoke or drink energy drinks or take supplements after daily workouts? Caffeinated beverages like coffee, coke etc?
Don’t smoke and don’t drink energy drinks , no supplements. The only thing I have is one coffee a day. I have tried cutting that one coffee out and it doesn’t seem to make a difference to me
Well that's all good then. Do you have a particularly stressful job? Or has any major event happened in your life? Not sure what else to suggest at this point. Ectopics are a royal pain in the rear. For me, a low dose of a BB (bisoprolol in my case) has rid me of the dreaded ectopics, for now at least.
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