I wish I could help you with the heart palps and skips but I talked to a friend of mine tonight on the phone and this happened to her last night so she took a klonopin. She has had the heart palps in the past. I have full blown panic attacks and then I think my heart is beating so fast and my blood pressure goes up. I can certainly understand your concern and being fixated on the heart palps. I even ended up in the ER with my first full blown panic attack. I thought I was having a heart attack. I will be here for a while as I have insomnia. If you need t talk I will be here for a while. Take care and you are right. Dealing with panic is a crappy condition. This is a wonderful site for support and understanding.

I had them over a long life and still do. No amount of therapy or meds ever stopped them. I also have full blown Panic Attacks that now I simply don't respond to. Went to the ER too many times. I turn on the TV or try to read, and yes I do use a xanax and over the years I've had to take more because a psychiatrist told me I needed to keep a balance in my blood stream, not go up and down. I took his advice and I'm dependent on them. But I count my blessing when I consider what psychiatry has done to damage so many. My heart is with you. As scatcat says you're in the right place.

Hi, I've had problems with my heart too lately. It's quite frightening.
My heart doesn't go fast but misses a beat and then seems to thump. This makes my anxiety rise and it's a vicious circle.
Hope your problems get better, it's a horrible condition

yeah i know what its like but it realy is just an anxiety symptom you wont have a heart attack though it feels like it meds are not always the answer i know its the same old boring advice but relaxation and breathing exercises are the way forward but you do need persaverence dont give up good luck

Hey sctfp,
I know how you feel. I went to the doctor on Wednesday. I took a quarter of a xanax before I went and my Blood Pressure still shot up to 190/110.
So now I am worried about blood pressure spikes with anxiety. My question to you is how is that Buspar? Did you have any side effects from it? The Doctor prescribed that for me but i haven't taken any yet.
I think that we just have to take it one day at a time. You take care and God Bless You!!!

When you are chronically anxious you are going to have excess adrenaline flowing through you all the time. And adrenaline makes you very "aware". It makes you hyper-aware of your surroundings and also of your bodily sensations. Everybody's heart skips and palps....maybe not as often as ours because they don't have the constant adrenaline...but they do get them. They just aren't really aware of them. And those that are aware of them don't usually go into panic mode.....they feel them....they might go to the doctor and be told that they are harmless and then they just chalk it up to "one of those things". But you view the palps as threatening so you panic. I used to have palpitations terribly. It seemed like the more aware of them I was...the more often I had them. I would literally feel my heart pounding out of my chest all day long as if I had just run a marathon. One day I remember walking out to my car for lunch and I was so fed up and I just said "screw it". If my heart is going to pound, I guess I will just have to learn to live with it. And I swear, I am not lying here, I never noticed them again. That is pretty much the way it has been for all of my anxiety symptoms. As soon as I get so fed up that I couldn't care less anymore....the symptoms stop.
The best advice I can give you is to just allow your heart to do its thing. You got a clean bill of health from the cardio, so you have to trust that you are going to be okay and just go with it and if your heart is pounding or skipping, just go on about your business and don't panic. Take care!

I've been having the EXACT same problem and i had convinced myself that there was something wrong with my heart, and made the fatal mistake of googling the symptoms and made myself even more scared! I know it's anxiety and i had been controlling it by just simply distracting myself, going for a walk, getting some fresh air, weirdly...talking to myself out loud, trying to talk sense into myself.

I've just started on propranolol and i'm having alot of side effects, yet i feel less aware of my heart so it's helping in a weird way.

Hope you feel better soon!

I actually went to the hospital once for heart skips. The ER doctor told me that when this happens your heart doesn't actually skip, even though it feels like it does. He said that sometimes when your heart beats fast it beats close together and it feels like it skips a beat. It's just an anxiety symptom. It still happens to me from time to time when I'm feeling anxious,
I am also on Buspar and I STRONGLY recomend it. It helps my anxiety a tremendously. I'm starting to feel like a new person, like how I felt before I was anxious all the time. I do get some side effects with it. I get dizzy when I take it but if I take it with food I feel fine. Try not to take it with a Benzo it messes you up. Good luck!!

My brother had the same thing and they had to send him to Mayo to have a procedure done. All the docs here said that he was fine but then they had a specialist come in and told him he had to so to Minnesota and have this procedure done. He had like misfiring in his heart and it would cause the same thing.

I've had this for 27 years now and I'm still here! I was, of course, initially terrified and it took me many years to get over it. I still get nervous on those days when it happens more frequently. I was tested and re-tested and nothing was ever found wrong. Even echo cardiograms were negative. But after about eight years, a new cardiologist heard a "click" and an echo showed a small mitral valve prolapse (MVP), which is a benign condition that can cause all this BS. I've been on Atenolol for about 20 years, and it really helps. My best advice is to trust your doctor.