This webforum is, among several other factors, very nice because a medical educated and experienced person (RLR) shares his knowledge. And often answers fast! Thank you.
I have never by my own doctors or on the web received such a credible and scientific based info as to how benign palps/ectopic beats occur.

But why do palps (sometimes) feel so bad and annoying? Even if you KNOW that they are harmless?
Not all of my ectopics are really bad, but now and then I experience that an ectopic heartbeat/extrasystole, often intense and "hard", immediately is followed by a feeling of fear/chock. Like the heart "pushes a button" in your body. Or touches a nervebundle.
Very much like when you get "chocked" by a sudden, unexpected, loud sound. It feels like andrenaline is pumping in your body, and it also immedieately has influence upon my mood. I feel a bit depressed, inward turned towards my own body and its irritating symptoms.
And if I'm so unlucky that more of these "hard beats" occur shortly after one another, I get in a "palpitation-mode" that's not nice at all. Sometimes this mode also include an increased kidneyactivity: I pee a lot ...
And I know in my mind it's not dangerous. It is if my body doesn't know ...

Anyone else here experience a thing like this?

And what are the mechanisms that constitutes this "pushes a fear-button"-feeling?
If that is known, maybe there is a way out of it?

Anyway - happy New Year to all - with or without sudden loud sounds, with or without palps.

Martin

The differnt feelings are from when the extra beat occurs in the cardiac cycle. RLR explains it alot better, but basically the more full of blood your heart is when the extra one happens, the harder the thump and longer the pause you feel. It's just pumping out the extra blood that came in with the beat.

Arent our hearts truly amazing??? They can cope with it just fine, it's us that worries  

Of course you will be able to finish your masters and cope with your clients. Maybe even better than others.
Because: "What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger ..."
And you might understand better how THEY feel stressed.

Happy New Year!

What I try to think when the palps are there, is:
EVERY single time they have paid me a visit, they left again - without causing any damage.

Good luck.

I wouldnt wish them on anyone either. I would rather suffer from my months long bouts of nausea that I occasionally have than palpitations. Ive often told people I would easily trade the palps for constant nausea.

Thanks to all for some very interesting answers and descriptions to my question: "Why do palps feel bad?"
Maybe the question wasn't answered 100% (hadn't expected that either ...), but the answers brought some more clarification into my little head.

So my two following questions to the doctors of the world (some of who MIGHT seem a little disinterested as soon as they don't see any risky heart disease) are:

1: How can benign palpitations, which really DO influence negatively on many people's lives, be prevented?

2: How can people with benign palpitations be treated/learn to cope with these, in order to live with them?

Okay, docs, how about that?
(I guess the doctors of the world ARE following this discussion closely ...)

Martin, Denmark on a nice, palpfree Sunday morning.

I agree totally!

I truly believe/know that you are right about benign palpitations, that they do never cause any cardiac event. That's good and calming to realize. Really.

But still it would be nice to be able to avoid the palps completely, since they do cause these very unpleasant feelings. The palps have "..wrecked my life ..." as one user here puts it.

I'm not quite satisfied that maybe I will have just "to live with it".