obviously for 'fetting' read 'getting'!!
Sxx

Weird - just re-read your post and I have had difficulties after eating for quite a few months but it died down, but it has started up again this past week.

And weirder - I am mid-cycle and these ectopics and faster than average heartbeat is at its worst these past couple of days. I am going to track this mid cycle phenomenon.

Well done for being able to carry on with your conversation with your MIL.  When mine start and i'm talking i get a surge of adrenaline and get really light headed and find that i have to stop speaking until they go off.  I know i should just try and carry on but they scare me and i can't help it.x

It sounds a bit like a panic attack - not surprising, probably tired and having to drive to the airport at the crack of dawn. It does sound like I often felt when I first had ectopics. Although panic can make your heart beat faster, I don't think it can make it beat dangerously fast - your heart can baet very fast for quite a while without doing any harm.

Hi all,

I've had this lots of times, I keep a diary and my weird heatbeats if you like, normally coincide with certain points in my cycle.  

In the lead up to your cycle, your hormones obviously change and can make you more anxious than normal I do not know the scientific reason why, this I have noticed personally can happen around ovulation as well.

I get all sorts of weird beats, the one you are describing is the type I get most, not as such a missed beat but more like your heart didin't beat properly? the scratchy feeling I get too sometimes, recently if I exert myself with rushing about I get a tight pause which momentarily aches.  You need to remember what RLR said about the telephone call and where and when the extra beat hits your heart and which part of the beat your heart is in at the precise time, if that makes sense, I do not have the scientific reasons, but it makes sense, I generally visualise my heart and a nerve going up to it.  

It is all down to stress and anxiety you have worked yourself up, not being able to breath is a classic symptom of anxiety, Unfortunately, there is not much you can do except ride the storm, make sure you eat little and often,  sit whilst eating and do not get up straight after eating, drink plenty of fluids and get enough sleep, these will help reduce the anxiety.

For example, I have been having wierd sensations in my chest recently, like my hearts swolen, so every time I breath in it feels full and I can really feel my heart, also been having quite a few ectopics, but then I could completly freak, or think well I'm having the kitchen done, I had no running water for 4 days all my kitchen stuff was in boxes in my lounge and as a result the whole house looks like world war 3! but I still have to continue as normal, getting children to school, washing etc.. We've only just started eating home cooked food and was living on take aways, Occasionally a nice home cooked meal at my mums, but eating rubbish and late to some nights, I got my period yesterday, I am now the Secretary of the PTA and just been made Chair of my governing commitee, 1/2 term is next week and I'm due to go back to work P/T after 1/2 term, My bathroom still need's it's finishing touches, and during this time some plaster has blown in my hall so that's going to need doing.  Oh and not forgeting my 3 year old broke her forearm on Sunday.   Sometimes when we feel bad we need to sit back and think what is going on in my life right now, it takes time but you will start to recognise your weak points, or notice sooner when you are getting up tight.  We are not super human, and sometimes it feels as though that is expected of us, and we try to keep everybody happy and get everything done, but sometimes this just is not possible!

But ask RLR this time a year or so back I wouldn't have felt I could do any of the above.

Hope your feeling better now.

Kath x

Hi

I had to do that, change the way you react and think, it's quite difficult, but it comes in time.

I will definately be having some me time! but with the commitments I'm thriving on them at the moment, keeps me busy!

Thanks, and I'm glad your therapy is helping   It's well worth doing.

Kath x