I've had almost every kind there is... hard thumps, soft flutters, flip-flops, machine-gun thumps, squirmies, stumbles (where it feels like your heart can't catch a normal rhythm), fast runs, you name it. The first bad run of palps I had, my doctor put me on beta blockers too... he seemed to think they kicked in when my heart was beating fast, but it turned out the opposite was true, my heart was beating fast when I got palps, due to the stress they caused.

If yours have gotten worse since going on beta blockers, you might want to tell your doctor that... while they definitely slow your heart down, they can sometimes aggravate palps in some people. Medication often doesn't always affect everyone the same way. With your doctor's help you can try around until you find what works best for you.

(edited due to communications failure... sorry, I never really developed a good sense of sequential thought! )

Yes it's definitely true, I get them sometimes if I have gas or acid reflux, if you read the stickied HEART PALPITATIONS 101 posts at the top of the forum it explains all about how it happens. Knowing how they happen helped me to not worry about them, which in turn helped them go away.

thanks very much edward i wish you would of told me that 2 months agi i stopped my beta blockers for 2 days and had just started taking prozac whch as u may no for the first 6wks anti depressants make evrythnk worse well on the night time i had a very bad attack my heart just went crazy cudnt calm dwn it pounded me allday an all night i phoned the nhs direct an was told to take the beta blocker amd in the end i went to out of hours docs and was given diazepam which my docotr took me off immediatly and said that they would make me worse but they did help me for 2 weeks to get back to normal i was in a right state an doubt i will b able to stop these beta blockers now nor having that again terrified me ,im only 25 cnt belive it .but i am determind to bet all this and be stronger the one thing i have to stop is checking my pulse thats wrong and makes me worse but thanks for reply edward means alot im trying to distract myself off things and i never touch caffeiene or alochol because the effect id get .for now im sticking with my medication ,oh my youve suffered for some years im sorry to hear that.do u also feel the palps in ur throat? how come i feel them in my throat?| my dad suffered with panic attacks and too sqid thats where he got palps in his throat too so weird how i too am suffering now.bye for now love c.xx