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what does a skipped heart beat feel like? |
where do you feel it most. is it dangerous. does it affect you. why does it happen
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a skipped heart beat as someone else said does indeed feel like a slight fluttering in your chest. Like a cross between a flutter and a hic up of sorts only it's your heat not your lung muscles jumping. You can notice it if your laying very still and have a history of heart mummers or flurries either yourself or in your family. Think of it as playing music, you have a set beat 1 and 2 and 1 and 2 and only ever so often you do a 1 and 1 and 2 and like a hesitation in the music that's what your heart is doing; hesitating a beat.
There is a potential for it being dangerous if it's a continuous daily occurrence. It can cause you to feel faint ( not to the point of fainting just more of a bit of light headiness for a moment ), a weakness feeling for a moment, tired, low energy that kind of thing. Most times it's treated with medication, other times it's just monitored by your doctor or a heart specialist if your doctor feels it's needed. Still other times if it's more serious more drastic measures can be suggested depending on your age even a defibrillator being put in to keep your heart regular.
I'm not real sure of the why but I think most of the reason for it to occur is mainly due to what your health is either at birth or later in life. Are you slim,exercise regularly, eat right etc; or are you overweight, sluggish, rarely exercise, eat a salad ONLY when you absolutely have to but most times eat junk food etc. Those can be factors in how your heart handles things. Stress is one of the main factors than can cause your heart to skip a beat at times just as poor nutrition, clogged arteries, high blood pressure, high cholesterol etc. can also cause your heart to skip periodically.
The best thing to do is if this is something you have noticed with yourself (more than the occasionally flutter if you have over done things in the exercise department that is); is to visit your doctor and have them do a complete work up on you. Check your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, sugar levels, oxygen levels; even do a stress test on you. This entails you being hooked up to a monitor by electrodes attached to your chest and getting on a treadmill and running till they tell you to stop and turn off the treadmill. Fun test.. if your in good condition *LOL*. They do these tests a lot these day's when they have to perform surgery on a person that requires them to be under sedation for a while. Great way to find out if you have a heart condition (especially considering they do the test at the hospital *LOL* ).
Hope this helps some. I tried to find some links on it too for you.
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Personal experiance ( I have ocassional flutters but nothing that the doctors can catch with tests as yet. So for now I'm told not to worry *laugh* Good or bad HUMMM) Also studied to be an EMT-Basic, only thing I lacked was my certificate which I didn't get because my back proved to be to strong a liability to allow me to get a certificate only to become a case for my co-workers if I hurt myself on a job.
Links:
http://searchwarp.com/swa66777.htm... (site talks about racing, skiping,fluttering of heart and what it's called)
http://seniorhealth.about.com/cs/heartdi...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/... (think this one best covers the conditions etc.)
http://www.healthandage.com/html/res/agi...
http://www.webmd.com/hw/heart_disease/aa... (Webmd.com I think is one of the best ask doctor type sites I have found around. Very informative and acurate) |
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