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I feel my heart “jumping” inside my chest every now and then. Whenever I get an ECG, I am told it is normal. Do I need to worry?
"The most common reason for this is your heart “skipping beats”, which is benign. However, dangerous arrhythmias can be ruled by performing rhythm monitoring with a patch."
- Dr. Alexander Postalian, General and Interventional Cardiologist
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I feel my heart jumping inside my chest every now and then. Whenever I get an EK, G, that's the electrical activity test of the heart. I'm told it is normal. Do I need to worry? This sounds like palpitations. Uh, and the most common way patients feel it is the hardest beating normally b boop, boop, boop, and then all of a sudden it goes B, B, and then B. What's happening most scenarios is that one cell in a different area of the he that shouldn't be triggering a heartbeat, triggers an extra heartbeat, and the commenter for that is my heart skipped a beat. Very, very common thing, very benign. However, if you're having a lot of them, we should definitely rule out a higher risk condition, a different arrhythmia, like atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, then trigger art, tachycardia. There's a long list of things, so yes, if you feel that you should probably have an evaluation, but know that the majority of the time it is a benign result.
