You should feel better about yourself, could even think before that you would have good days. From reading your posts I think that you have come along way down the road.

This is the way that I feel to. I still  have pain and palpitations.  As a matter of fact I am having chest pains now. Now I just take a deep breath and try to go about my day. I have just gotten so tired of being afraid. After all of these years nobody has found anything wrong with me besides a hiatal hernia and GERD with acid reflux. I have taken to heart (no pun intended) that heart issues take years to develop and that with regular check ups I will be well aware of my health concerns.

I am starting to exercise, I have gotten a job, got married and am moving on. I still check in to see how everybody is doing and to calm my mind on these "bad days" to help find peace. I hope you can find the same .

Several people have said a good diet and lots of exercise...reducing stress etc.

I am still, like you, working on it

I have mostly recovered (36yr old male)...you can look up my previous posts from last summer in which I saw a cardiologist, wore a 48-hr Holter monitor and had an Echo.  During that time period, I was reading and posted to this forum.  The cardio told me that my heart was completely normal.  Shortly thereafter, I began to realize that perhaps I just had anxiety-induced palps during this time period (although no history of anxiety or palps).  I did the following:  

1)  avoid caffeine drinks...although I do consume decaffeinated drinks now and still eat chocolate so I get a little bit.  
2)  Started doing cardio workouts....just 20-30 min per week, not a lot.  I would also do muscle training exercises at the gym about 1 to 4 times per month and I used to sit and relax in the hot tub each time I went (since I'm much better now I stopped doing the hot tub just cuz of the extra time it takes).  
3)  I sleep a little better, perhaps avg 6.5 - 7 hrs per night now (I have 2 little kids so sleep is a luxury).  Perhaps 1 nap on a weekend also.
4)  I don't push myself to get stuff done fast, especially running errands and yard work during the hot arizona summer months.  I also plan a little better.

I never did take any anxiety medication, I never even visited my primarity doctor after my last cardio appt. My palps gradually decreased both in severity and duration once I started doing these things.  I hardly get palps now but during a stressful situation (just last week), I'll feel them again...but they usually subside minutes after the stressful situation is over and I'll feel normal in about 1 hr or so.

Hope this helps and good luck to all.

I've had an experience during the last weeks: After a period with quite many palps, which I really felt were related to my digestive system, especially upper stomach, I went once more to the doctor and talked aboutl pulse-felling round the diapharagm many hours during day and night. He did a ecg at once - normal as can be. Then he felt and "pushed" my stomach to search for maybe aneurisms, but didn't find anythng (and also said one of those really would cause pain.) Then we talked about gastric acid, which I now and then used to feel. A bit reflux, but nok all the time.
That made him prescribe me Pantoprazole (a proton-pump-inhibitor/PPI), and during these two weeks I've been on those, I ALMOST haven't had a palpitaion episode. I have really regained my nights. So great.
The problem is you can't just eat these pills all the time, and I've got to stop tomorrow, and now I'm really interested in seeing what is going to happen!

Thanks! Yes, I've been thinking something like that. And also: if it really is so closely stomach related, maybe it would be wise to really check out which food is acid-creating and which is not. (Though I have the feeling that a good part of the nice things on the menu really squeeeze the acid out of the linings ...)
We'll see, and I'll report back in some days.

Yes, believing and accepting is important, I agree on that. And no doubt an important tool in breaking the anxiety-vicious circle.
And no, I don't believe that worrying about my palpitations will give me one more day in the life, BUT finding out about what causes them might give me a lot of days without that uncomfortable feeling they create. And I think that this "feeling uncomfy" is more that just something mentally; benign as it is, it does "push some buttons" in you, buttons connected to the nervous system. Chemical og physical, I don't know.

Believing and accepting? Yes, but why not improve the situation if possible? Just like you know you can open a window and let your - benign - headache fly away.

And since it seams that anxiety is not the ONLY cause of benign palps, it is, I belive, important both for "patients" and doctors to go further into causes of these. I truly believe palps are benign once you've been tested, and RLR has given some good desciption of the whole vagus nerve "thing", connecting GI-tract and heart.
How nice it would be if medicine could go further into that, so maybe we would not have just to accept, but could prevent palps from coming.

Like these PPI's might have done for me!

Richie I hate to be blunt but you are just not getting it....and until you do you will just suffer.

Of course what happened is normal!  You are keeping your body under such tension and fear that it is reacting appropriately every time.  RLR has told you numerous times that there is nothing wrong with you....your doctors have told you.

Now you need to believe and get on with your life.....and understand that just because all of the sudden you believe, your symptoms will not just magically disappear!  Your body needs time to recover from the constant 24 hours a day stress you have been putting it under!

Go get your life back and give up this fight!

I hope this helps.