Hi
I have been on this site before but a long long time ago - I tend to use it if I am particularly anxious about my palpitations.  
I have had them for many years - sometimes going for quite a while without them and not even realising that they aren't there which  I suppose is good, but boy do I know when they are there !

I know I get periods of IBS in my life if there are stresses and anxieties and one thing I have noticed that hunger pangs and palpitations do go together with me - the palpitation is sort of a flip  and feels really strong as though a beat has been missed but   when I feel my pulse it doesn't feel that strong.  I think it is all connected to my stomach  - I take tablets to stop me making acid but sometimes I think my overwhelming anxieties get the better of me.  I have had checks on my heart, I swim two or three times a week and had these for so many years that if there were something radically wrong then I wouldn't feel as fit as I do now, there is no breathlessness or dizziness   but another thing I do get sometimes when I am like this is a flicking eyelids, sometimes one, sometimes both eye lids.

I think I have accepted that I am always going to be prone to this and maybe it is me that has made them as bad as they are because I am always thinking about them, when I wake up I literally start thinking, 'well I wonder when they are going to start' they usually do and then I start to panic.

So really my question is to do with the hunger thing and palpitations and also the connection with this flicking eye lid that I often get at the same time.

Many thanks.

Thank you for your reply Saab - yes I thought it may be to do with the vagus nerve - I think the problem with palpitations is that although we tell ourselves that when we get them there is always an explanation, anxiety,  panic, etc because they don't go after thinking all this we tend to, well I tend to get a bit low, I actually envy those people who don't suffer from them. I think they do affect my quality of life sometimes  because when they are bad they seem to restrict what I do  because I am frightened of going out and they come on and being on my own when they come on, but strangely if my husband is off with me and we go away on holiday or we stay at home  I don't get them and I use these times to sort of recharge my batteries and think more logically about them.
Sorry for rambling - with my flicking eye it is generaly my eye lid that flicks and I think that has got a lot to do with stress.