Hi RLR and everyone
Just read an answer you gave about it being possible for your body to give a conditioned physical response rather than an obvious emotional one.
I am really interested in learning how to counteract this as the way things are going I suspect that I am having that. I often think 'yes but I don't feel more anxious today than yesterday or last week so why the increase in palpitations' Do you have any tips on logging this and 'debugging the system' so to speak? Presumably it is possible to 'unlearn' these kind of responses?
Incidentally I have spent nearly a week and a half with at least half the usual number of palpitations. They are still going on but I have just come back from a trip to the hairdressers and I only noticed them twice in a two hour period, rather than every 15 to 20 beats. so that is some kind of miracle for me. Although I am almost reluctant to admit it, rather superstitiously, in case just saying that, puts me in for another bout of uncontrollable heart weirdness
In my diary I am marking up good and bad days re palpitations and have noticed that on the whole they are better than they have been in ages. On the days when they are not there I am feeling really happy - but which has come first do you think? I feel I am happy because of the lack of palpitations.
Although the palpitations are still there every day and night, they are so infrequent compared to how they have been they feel manageable. I have only had one bad day this week where my heart was going to fast for what I was doing - in 90s and all I was doing was pottering around the house!
bead