[Katie]

So, lately when I'm getting palpitations they are what feels like runs of them between 2-5 in a row of skips then the normal rhythm picks up. So it's skip skip skip skip skip normal beat rhythm. Is this NOT ok? I don't have it often, but when I do it's terrifying. Last nIght I had a very wierd palpitation were it felt like I'd inhale and they'd come on. It was very quick shallow breathing that I took until I could take a deep breath. It only lasted two breaths. Could anyone who knows about either of these reassure me as I looked at VT and it terrified me because all I could see was most are begnin but... And it's that but that scares me.

[DaniRae]

You very well have had regular beats between and didn't realize it. And even if you were having 5 PVCs in a row, it's NOT VT. It would be Non Sustained VT, which still it NOT a huge concern. Me, when I had a 6 beat run, I didn't even know it, it was picked up on the monitor. For me it just felt like a normal but harder thump PVC. The doc said that only time to even "worry" about it is if I pass out from it or it last longer then 30 seconds.

I would not always trust what you think you feel, it's very hard to tell when its a skip, beat, skip etc. I never feel the skips in my neck or wrist pulses. I don't' even try.

And when I sniffle or inhale sharply I almost always make myself have a PVC lol, it's all linked.

[DaniRae]

PS I asked my electrophysiologist very specifically if I was at any greater risk of developing VT. He said NO. That my chances of getting it was very very very low (his exact words). Trust me, I have saved all his emails lol.

[Katie]

Thank you so much Danirae I really appreciate ur response my heart has been beating fast from the anxiety of it

[jkfrench]

I sometimes get a few fast beats in a row when I inhale. That is why I don't like yoga. I wasn't clear on your explanation. Did you have a normal beat, skip, normal beat, skip etc...or fastbeat,fastbeat,fastbeat, then back to normal beats.
I have quick bursts of SVT which is the fastbeat,fastbeat,fastbeat in a row. That is not NSVT. Although Dani is correct. You really can't tell what it is by feeling your pulse. A holter would have to pick it up. BUT, it is probably just short bursts of SVT. That is more common, especially if you have PACs.

[Katie]

It was or is fast beat, fast beat, fast beat, normal rhythm with no normal rythms felt to me to be in between the beats. Almost feels like 4 PACs or PVCs in a row without normal beats in between.

[CMoore416]

I can actually feel the PVC in my neck pulse. So I feel the normal beat then the PVC faintly buy not always. Last night when I was having clusters of them it felt like beat beat beat pause beat pause best pause beat then would pick up the faster beat beat beat. I am feeling PVCs again all morning but I feel like my period is about to start any minute so I keep telling myself that why so atleast feel a teeny tiny bit better.

[Katie]

Ok thanks everyone for the reassurance. I feel better.
But Cmoore are ur beats normal feeling or skips. Like skip skip skip pause beat pause ?

[CMoore416]

No when I actually feel My pulse in neck it feels likenpause beat pause beat pause beat then starts back to normal beat beat beat. In my cheat I just feel thumps

[DaniRae]

See I can't feel them in my pulse at all. The only thing I feel is the hard thump in my chest. I have felt a pause here and there but not much of one.