Comments on: Heart Palpitations or Pauses

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:51:46 +0000

You know, this would be spot on advice in an ideal world. However, we live in a day of modern day witch doctors who rattle their chart over you and prescribe you the local remedy of the day (pills) instead of really being an advocate for health.
My advise is to do some diligent investigation on your own through the web. It’s quick and easy. This requires you have enough intelligence to take everything with a grain of salt and get enough sources to be fairly sure of your findings…
Of course if you kill yourself by taking my advise, then you missed the point of being intelligent enough… and thus cancel out my advise. haha.

By: Inspired Robin

Inspired Robin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:31:07 +0000

I hope everything turned out well for you. However, if you or anyone else really does feel like something may be wrong then see a doctor right away. Our health and our lives are too precious to chance.

By: Josh EMT-B

Josh EMT-B — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:21:48 +0000

Without a proper ECG to compare your concerns to, this may be rather vague… All, however, deal with the electrical conduction within the heart and the contraction of the cardiac muscles secondary to the electrical activity. Pre-Atrial Contractions (PACs), Pre-Junctional Contractions (PJCs) and Pre-Ventricular Contractions (PVCs) are contractions that come too early from different parts of the heart. All of these contractions will have a compensatory “pause” after them to allow the heart to resume the proper contraction rate. There are many different causes for each of these and you should see your Doc just in case… The way you describe the rhythm as “beat, beat, pause…” makes me think of an electrical block known as a Second Degree – Type One Heart Block which would cause the heart to “drop” beats every so often, yet these would be more regular and more than likely not come and go with factors such as stress. Darlene is correct about the PVCs possibly leading to V-Tach or V-Fib, both of which are lethal rhythms. None the less, go see your Doc and get a real diagnosis.

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:49:20 +0000

I get the heart issues quite often and a lot in my pregnancies. It is indeed going to be an issue with potassium since I’d been taking a diuretic to get the swelling in my feet down.

By the way, what a handsome man you are.

By: darlene

darlene — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:08:20 +0000

Hey you. I really enjoy reading your posts. I was talking with you another site. You one on heart palps. Well, it very well may have been from lack of potassium however, the first sure sign is leg cramps to let you know that your potassium is low. I get a lot of palps myself but mine is mostly from stress. I am so high energy and rush, rush, rush at work all the time that when I finally get home and lay down my heart does funny things all the time. PVCs they are called. Can be harmless most of the time but they can also lead to V-Tach which is a life threatening condition if they happen too frequently. Again great journals! Talk soon!