Heart constantly skips beats

[CarlJUK]

I suffer from many skipped heartbeats in a day I've also got a cough that accompanies it. This is really frightning, I can't sleep. Does anyone ir has anyone experienced this before? I've been to a doctor, and completed a resting ECG test, waiting for the results. Can anyone comfort me, I feel alone ride now. There is also a rash and scratches on my chest where I have been rubbing my shirt against my shirt. Help?! I sometimes get upset about this I am 20 years old and the doctor has not presribed me anything. I also feel this when I'm sleeping is it possible this could be heart fluttering, but I cough?. I don't know what heart fluttets are or what they're suppised to feel like so am not sure whether am feeling fluttering. Help i can't sleep, it's really irritating. Sometimes I feel my heart will fail, I'm getting really depressed over it. Please say i'm going to be ok. I haven't collapsed or fainted yet. I've been experiecing this for 3 days now. I have a real phobia of dieing now, I also feel my heart be vunreable if I get a fright

[bodart]

I was a race car driver and had a bad crash (Belgium). I stayed 3 months in a dark room. I was not hurt at all, but I was really afraid during the crash. So, a few days after the crash I had 1 to 15 panick attack a day, sweting etc.. It's anxiety. One day, I started to have extra systoles. They go away for a whilr and now they are comming back. Yes, it's very scary. Especiially when all the doctors do not pay too much attention to that. They gave me Valium. So, the skipping beat are going better. I had one every 2 to 7 beats. Now, I an taking Magnesium chloride and it's seems to help. I have less palpitations (Exstra systoles etc...)
I notice that I had more extra systole when I was resting orwtching TV. As soon as I start to be active, walking or going out, everything is normal. I do not know what to think. But I notice that caffeine must be avoid. Soda too!
Stress and fatigue can start palpitations. Panic attack too! The only good advice that I can give you. Do not worry at all. Because if you are afraid to die or something, you will get anxious and you will have palpitations. It's better to ignore them and take magnesium etc...I know, it's easy to say and difficult to stop a panic attack. I was in the Special forces SAS and fought in Congo. I was of course a little bit affraiod but I never had any palpitations. They started after my race car accident. And even as a former SAS, I had panic attac and was and still afraid and anxious. But the good news , it's nothing dangerous. I passed all kind of tests. Good heart , but anxioux. It's like a dog who runs after his tail.
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Guy

[Wisconsin2007]

Hi Carl -

How many is "many"?  I know that if you haven't ever had these before, 100 can feel like a lot.  I know I used to think so.  Now I need to have 15-20,000 a day for a few straight days before I would call it "many."  So you know, if a doctor suspects it might be anxiety related and the number of skipped beats you have is less than 6 a minute, they usually will just pat you on the head, tell you you're fine, and send you on your way.  They do this because in all likelihood you are fine.

I can't speak to a medical reason why you might cough, but I know on some of my bad days I also cough, and I suspect that for me the disruption of my heart's normal rhythm just jiggles things around a little bit in my chest, and my body then thinks that to correct the problem I need to cough.  It never helps.

That you have given yourself a rash from rubbing your shirt (against your shirt?) and your palms are sweaty would seem to be more a response to anxiety about this than a symptom of a heart problem.  Before I had been diagnosed with benign, short bursts of PAT, my hands, head and legs would sweat shortly after one of the bursts, but after I had some time to let the cardiologist's diagnosis and reassurance sink in, that doesn't happen anymore.

You heart was made with several backup mechanisms to keep itself pumping and you alive.  Try not to worry too much.  Easy to say, hard to do, I know.  Just make sure you feel comfortable that you've been poked and prodded enough to discover the underlying problem, and once that's happened and you've been given a clean bill of health, try to tuck that worry away in the back of your mind and get back out there and live.

[CarlJUK]

It's also worth metntioning that my hands sweat sometimes, and you can see the sweat appear when I'm using my iphone from my fingers. I don't get headaches, but I feel light headed and dizzy at some points. My GP said that I may be suffering from Panic Attacks. I've become very insomniac.