Anxiety

[Kingchris22]

used to feel skipped heartbeats during exercise but they have stopped since I've been working out a lot more. Now I do have really bad anxiety about my heart health I'm 20 year old and a male I've had multiple normal ekgs and normal chest xrays and blood tests heck even pee test. My normal doctor has even listened to my heart and said everything sounds beautiful but he done an EKG just for a piece of mind because he could tell I was worried. My anxiety has been doing a lot better until Sunday whenever I was just simply driving my car grated I haven't had much rest  and all of the sudden BOOM skipped heart beat sensation so is it because of my lack of rest that made it bad or what is going on??

[specialmom]

I know I've given you this advice before as you have asked this now many times here on the anxiety forum---  you seem to know on some level that this is anxiety driven.  The anxiety is what you need to be talking to your doctor about.  Not heart issues as you do not have any (all tests indicate this).  So, the root of your problem is your anxiety and that is what I'd work on so that you can overcome this fear and begin to enjoy life more.  good luck

[Paxiled]

Great advice, my only amendment is, and I've said this before as well, do you have a psychologist who specializes in anxiety treatment?  I don't think a regular doc is going to help you much with anxiety, they can only prescribe medication for it and psychiatrists are a better choice for that than regular docs.  But again, are you seeing anyone who can help you learn some relaxation techniques?  Because Specialmom is wise and is right -- you don't have heart problems, and I'm not even sure what you're experiencing are skipped heart beats -- they probably just feel that way to you.  Add to this the fact that the more you work out the less problem you have working out tells you working out was never the problem -- your way of thinking about it was.  

[Bierlysa]

I know for myself lack of sleep can cause my anxiety to rise! Excersize is one of the best things for anxiety so I would say containing to do so is a good thing! Something that happened while you were driving could have stressed you out enough to trigger your anxiety on top of the lack of sleep...or even if you were simply thinking about things that stress you out. You can always test it and get a good amount of sleep for a few days then force yourself to get lack of sleep and see if it happens again.

[Kingchris22]

And I used to feel them whenever I did workout but whenever I started to workout more and more they have stopped all together