Skipped beats that are getting worse.
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So I've been having a lot more skipped beats lately than usual, and I'm not exactly sure why.
Just as a brief history, I first started having palpitations about 4 years ago and went to the doctors a few times to try and figure out what was going on. I didn't find anything from the doctors, but discovered that cutting back on salty meals helped tremendously. I stopped eating a lot of salty foods and have been fine until recently. The last 2 years I've had a lot of random health problems that I haven't been able to figure out the cause of, and then the last 3 months I started having really bad skipped beats during sexual activity. I've cut out salt and a lot of sexual activity in order to stop the PVC. While this has helped, a few days ago they started happening again. This time it has not been triggered by sexual activity and I've still had very little sodium in my diet.
I can not find any cause for my palpitations now, and they are occurring quiet often and in repetition. My heart will sometimes skip a beat when I breathe in, and then it will continue to do so until I move around or stand up. Sometimes it will skip a beat 5 or 6 times before I finally have to get up so it will stop. Most times the skipped beats are triggered by movement, by my breathing in, or from eating or drinking something. When it occurs after eating, it normally happens within a minute or two, so I don't think it's the food i'm eating, especially since drinking water also seems to cause them to occur. Unfortunately when they start occurring when I breathe in, they will continue to occur every time I breathe in. I've also had some chest pain, some burning sensations, and trouble breathing the last few days on and off as well.
Just as some extra information, I had an echocardiogram and ECG along with a month long even monitor at the beginning of last year, and I was told everything looked normal.
Any information or advice would be appreciated. I apologize for the poor wording of this post.
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tony52050 sc123
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Stay calm as anxiety is a known trigger and heaven knows we have enough anxieties without adding to them when these horrible sessions start, often out of nowhere when we have been seemingly having a good day. (easier said than done!)
Are you keeping a record as to what sort of BP levels leads to times of calm and times of renewed activity?
sc123 tony52050
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I haven't been writing it down, but I've definitely noticed higher blood pressure when i'm moving around, but it's not significantly high or anything. It'll be about 135/85 when I'm up moving around but 120/75 at rest. I think anxiety is making this problem worse for me, but i'm not sure what's causing them to begin with. I took a little bit of anxiety medicine after this happened to calm me down, and I've been ok since then.
EDIT: 135/85 is usually on the higher end of how high it will go when i'm up moving around.. normally it's not quiet this high unless I start having palpitations, in which case it can be higher after I panic a bit. After I had some palpitations a minute ago, my blood pressure was 151/91, but my anxiety was pretty bad then.
sc123
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They've still been better since I've been on blood pressure medicine but they won't quiet go away. They happen most often now when I move positions (like if I lay down quickly), if I get startled (like in a game, they will happen almost every time), or while I'm sleeping. They seem to happen quiet a lot while I sleep too, even waking me up a lot of times. I've had several nights where I wake up at least once or twice to ectopic beats. It seems like stress and being startled will cause them very very quickly, which seems weird. I've had that issue before but I usually have to be under a lot of stress for it to bring on ectopics, it isn't usually brought on by every little thing that happens. They will happen in groups when they occur from stress or being scared, otherwise it'll only happen once or twice and then stop.
I'm so afraid to do anything now because they are triggered so easily. I can sit here and do nothing and they won't usually occur but.. I can't just sit down all day and do nothing. I'm trying to exercise still but that will sometimes bring them on as well.