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Feeling of skipped beats, primarily when lying down at night is happening more frequently lately? (post ablation for SVT 6 years prior)

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Hi everyone (new here!)- I had Superventricular Tachycardia (PSVT) diagnosed late teens , with no instances of fast arrythmia since my 3rd and final ablation around 6 years ago.

There have been a couple of times since then I've felt maybe a run of a couple of fast beats like it is trying to get into that rhythm but never more than a couple of seconds.

What I'm noticing lately is more frequent episodes where I get the sensation my heart is skipping a beat or fluttering. Now I've had this happen where I feel a skipped beat every now and then once a month or so, so no stranger to this sensation (also part of the post ablation healing).

Cue to 1 year ago when I began boxing for around an hour a few times a week, i noticed that the evening after a session I would feel my heart skip a beat every 5-10 min for a couple of hours straight then i'd go to bed and be fine. (usually this happened when I took hayfever tablets and occasionally a glucose tablet too as I sometimes get paranoid my sugar levels are getting low etc. a habit i probably need to shake)

Jumping to the present, for the last couple of weeks I've been having the odd night where I can have no skipped beat sensations all day but like clockwork, as soon as i get into bed and lie down at night, i get a skip straight away...then i sit up it goes off for a few minutes lie down again and it skips again. Occasionally running in skips of 2or3 it feels like. Not sure this is ectopic or my SVT is attempting to start it's run into a fast rhythm. After a while this normally stops and I manage to fall asleep. But it does seem to be triggered a lot by my body position.

I can't really see any other triggers because occasionally I can be stressed and or have a binge day where maybe I'm eating too much sugar but this won't happen at all. Even when I'm not feeling any stress or anxiety. Cut down drinking to only a few pints a week (no smoking also) as I noticed i would get these skips more frequently if feeling hungover etc. (dehydration?)

I have an ECG booked in for this week, but I was just curious if this pattern of usually only getting skips at night or any specific triggers was familiar to anyone. As it's just made me more aware now they are happening a couple of times a week.

(apologies for my use of terminology but i'm not 100% sure what i'm experiencing but skipping or ectopic beats seems to be the most accurate to what it feels like, accompanied by a small anxiety like pang after each one)

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Hi mate I’m post SVT ablation three years ago and started getting what you seem to have last year on lying down, get specialists to fit you with a Zio and leave it on for two weeks. I’m glad I did they picked up ventricular tachycardia so I’m getting tests for that now too

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Palpman

Since I had my ablation I cannot sleep on my RHS.Within minutes of doing so I get sharp painful palpitations and ectopics.

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jeanjeannie50 in reply toPalpman

Isn't it odd how we're all so different? I can't sleep on my left hand side or my AF kicks off. I just wonder why the position we sleep in has an effect on our AF?

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Jpot34 in reply tojeanjeannie50

I have the same. It's vagal AFIB. All related to the vagus nerve that starts at the base of the brain, and affects your heart rhythm, and rate. Look into stomach problems, and a chiropractor. The chiropractor has done wonders for my vagal AFIB.

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jeanjeannie50 in reply toJpot34

Interesting, your not the first person that has said bodily manipulation has helped.

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Hi,

I had the same thing after Cardioversion. I started taking Magnesium Taurate and Glycinate. It not only helped me sleep but reduced any palpitations that I felt. Then back into NSR. It takes several weeks to show benefits but great for long term benefits!

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