When I'm anxious, my heart rate goes up and I can get weird heart patterns. It might be linked to the anxiety. Treating the anxiety might reduce the severity of that symptom.

Okay, I'm an anxiety sufferer but my doctor found that I was anemic. He gave me iron tablets and the flutters went away.

Not all anxiety manifests itself in squirrelly behavior. Mine came out in these perfect-storm-type headaches. They were totally horrible but they were also easy to beat.

Hello Alyssa. Welcome to DS.

I had several ER trips for heart attack symptoms in my late 20's and early 30's with the same results: All Clear on the physical end. This would have been in the mid 80's when I was parenting young children in between career development. The ER pros didn't take the episodes lightly, despite the clear tests. They believed that stress anxiety was the fastest rising killer in the pathogen pack. I doubled up on my psychotherapy and believe the shift in focus has paid off. Even without the strictly personal psycho-baggage of my broken childhood, it is a stress-saturated world we live in here at the turn of the millennium. Creative coping mechanisms needed. . .

You are far from alone, Alyssa. Welcome to the club.

Thank y’all so much for sharing your stories ! It means a lot . All I know is that when the stress kicks in that’s when the weird heart feeling starts

For what it's worth:
Breathing is my front line tool for relieving that weird heart feeling. I tend to hold my breath and/or shallow breath when stress anxiety kicks in. My doctor tells me that regulating my breath relieves the heart pressure. So does sighing. A sigh a day keeps the cardiologist at bay. For certain, breathing exercises bring me almost immediate relief.

Welcome to DS Alyssa. Most of us know that symptom all too well. Talking to a therapist is a good start to uncover any underlying issues now you have been checked physically. If you do have to go the medication route, my doctor explained to me that it helps choose a med if they know what your specific challenges are. Good luck.

Thank you all so much for making me feel not so alone ! It’s nice to know that !

Hi Alyssa. I know exactly what you mean. I also get the rapid heart beats and heart palpitations. Usually from anxiety, but sometimes when I am just doing nothing and not feeling anxious at all. Like you, I have been to the cardiologist a couple of times in the past 10 years, and all my heart tests came out fine. The only think he said was smoking, alcohol and too much caffeine can cause more rapid heartbeat.

You might want to also ask to get your thyroid checked. Too high of a thyroid could cause palpitations.

Don't worry about your heart palpitations. It feels scary, but you have been checked out, and hopefully that brings you some mental comfort. Just try your best to work on your anxiety, through therapy, reducing your daily stress (and/or medication if it gets to be too much). I am sure you will be just fine though! :) Glad you are here. Welcome to the site.

I totally agree with people here, and especially artie. If you read and research about anxiety symptoms, it truly helps to understand what is happening and their causes. The majority does come back to breathing! Slow breaths from the belly in the nose, slow steady breath out the mouth. It even helps to count, odds in and evens out. Get to 10 and then focus on the task at hand. The more we check internally and ruminate, the more it sticks around