Hi all.  I am here from time to time for reassurance.  I have also posted a few times.  

I am trying very hard to accept that the heart skips and pauses I feelt are harmless and I think I've come a long way from where I was a year ago on these.  I tend feel the pause and a hard thud heartbeat.  I may get a few of these spread out over several minutes and while they do bother me, I mostly believe they are harmless.  Again, I know I have to work on this some more.

Last night however I had a different type of symtom that freaked me out a bit.  I know I have read on here that a change in symptoms does not mean anything is wrong and I want to be sure what I experienced is what is meant by a change in symptoms.

I was sitting on the couch, about an hour after eating.  I went to lean on the arm of the couch with my legs up on the couch when my heart started to act up (position change aggrevated the vagus nerve?).  Instead of a pause hard beat like I'm used to, I had many super fast beats for about 4-5 seconds.  It wasn't that my heart started to beat fast, I just had a ton of extra beats all in a row.  It stoppped after 4-5 seconds, but my heart is now the focus of my attention.  This morning I woke up with some anxiety and all I'm thinking about is this occurance.

Is this what others have experienced.

I will aslo add that I ate my dinner fast (a very bad habit I have every since having a baby 3yrs ago and having to eat fast in between the baby needing me), had this epiosde about an hour later, and then about 30 min after that had a horrible stomach ache.  I am not sure if the stomach ache was caused by the anxiety of what happened or if it's all related.

My husband gets these too, where his heart will flutter like that for 5-7 seconds and then go away.  He worries a little, but not as much as I do.  He can put them out of his mind after they happen a lot better than me.  I keep thinking, we both cannot have something wrong with our hearts - what are the odds of that?

Thanks to all that reply.  I really appreciate it.

Thank you for your reply.  I am inclined to believe this was nothing, but it's hard.  

It felt like a rapid succession of extra beats in a row for like 4-5 seconds.  I dont' think I have had that before.  Then it stopped, but my anxiety was definitely up there and I kept monitoring my heart beat for several hours after.  I know, bad!!

can i just say i know excactly which type of palp u have felt here,,, these are the most alarming.....  i can be sat very normal with a nice resting hearbeat when all of a sudden my heart goes wappy with about 7 real fast quick beats and it always makes me jump up and hit my chest and cough......  but.... i have found that i get these when i eat chocolate...since stopping eating choc ( well i may have a square rather than the bar) i aint had these type of palps , still pvc ,ing my way through the day and night though xxxx

After a pretty much PVC free day, I have experienced another one of those alarming flutters today almost out of the blue.  I was inside a shop with my kids, it was quite warm inside and very windy and rather cold outside. I was just standing there looking at something, quite calm, and suddenly it started....It felt like a lot of PVCs almost in a row, I instinctively started taking deeper breaths and moving my head  and panicking almost, because it would not go away for what seemed like ages but was probably only about 5 seconds. Almost immediately after that i experienced a sharp pain in my stomach. I must say i was almost sure smth was going to happen there... I kept taking deep breaths and they didn't seem to subside, was almost like they were independant of the normal rythm and felt mainlt in the throat.
RLR, could all these things be smth to do with Parasystoles? I have heard about it before but was never diagnosed with it, the description, however, sounds almost like I sometimes experience.... Doesn't sound very nice
This is one of the descriptions i found for it
Parasystoles..A cardiac arrhythmia caused by the interaction of two foci independently initiating cardiac impulses at different rates. Generally one of the foci is the sinoatrial node (the normal pacemaker) and the ectopic focus is usually in the ventricle, but can occur in the sinus and AV nodes, atrium and ventricle, and AV junction. Each focus - and thus each rhythm - is protected from the influence of the other.