what does a palpitation feel like?

i dont have a haert condison but suffer missed beats , this feels like a flutering in my chest . makes me panick . but when i try to focos on something else goes away it can be anxiaty xx

Palpitations seem to feel different at different times. Sometimes they feel like a fluttering. More often it feels like a momentary pause of the heart which it is not or like a skipped or galloping beat. Sometimes it just feels like the top and bottom chambers are beating out of sync. It is so hard to specifically describe but it can DRIVE me crazy!

Here is the kicker: it seems like those people who suffer from GERDS or esophogeal spasms or even a bad gallbladder can have symptoms that feel like palpitations but are not! I am speaking form experience here!

In September or so I had my gallbladder removed because a HIDA scan showed it was not functioning properly. I was so sure it would not make any difference to all my chest pains and palpitations! I was really low emotionally because of years of symptoms which doctors pretty much dismissed as either not important or imagined. I was told that I was a neurotic woman, over-anxious, depressed, etc. I knew I was not and only had one advocate. My cardiologist who had thoroughly checked out my heart and would not dismiss me a neurotic or anxiety driven or depressed. He took his precious time as a heart doctor to continue looking for the cause of my problem even though it was not anything serious with my heart.

I had my gallbladder removed and the operation and recovery was VERY difficult for me, but here I am 3-4months later and I HAVE MY LIFE RESTORED!!!!

I have very little chest pain and that is only upon occasions which is more of a muscular thing, I imagine. My palpitations have DRAMATICALLY decreased! I don't know if it was sensations caused from my poor functioning gallbladder which really weren't heart palpitaions or if it was really palpitations caused from my vagal nerve being irritated from my poor functioning gallbladder but I do know that I am SO MUCH BETTER!

I am so thankful how my life has changed. Please don't get me wrong. I DO have palpitaions. They have been documented on an EKG. I do still get them. However they are not as bad and I work hard to ignore them and get on with my life. I have wasted so much of it due to fear of these things. Now it is time for me to LIVE and ENJOY my life again!

I can't tell you if what you are feeling is GERDS or palpitations but I would encourage you (after you have had your heart checked out and tried various GERDS medications) to try to ignore the sensations as much as possible and enjoy living your life to its very fullest! Find, Learn and Practice some relaxations techniques to help get a handle on life. I did this when I was going through all my stuff. It REALLY did and does help. I would advice everyone to do this. It is just part of a healthy lifestyle in our fast-paced, frantic world for today.

Hi...when my palpitations occurr they feel like one of two things....one is it feels like my heart skipped a beat. And it does feel like a quick flutter. The other is my heart feels like it did an extra beat and it feels like a quick pound in my chest. Neither hurt but just feels wierd and sometimes gets me to jump bc its scares me. But right away it goes away. I experience one a day usually. The wierd part is I've had every heart test you can think of and everything came back normal. Well, except for a small hole in my heart (very small) and its called a pfo. And its very common. Doctors say that people go their whole life having it and it never causes symptoms and the only way its found is when the person dies (like of other reasons) and they do an autopsy and find the hole. I think its like 30% of people have this. Its pretty common and doesn't cause symptoms although there is talk that its linked to migraine headaches. So anyways, this doesnt cause my palpitations but anxiety and stress does so maybe just me thinking about having a palpitation brings one on!

 hopes, did you ever have the severe pain between your shoulderblades?  did that go away also?  thanks dreamy

Always good to hear a "good news" story, Hopes.  Still have pain in that left shoulder blade, but common for fibros and severe TMD or TMJ, car accident.  Still wonder if it's my heart, but can check my BP anytime, so the panic attacks are just part of some old thing I have managed for years. 

i have palpitations or irrigular heart beats. but mine is down to the hole in the heart. I can only explain how it feels for me. For 12 months i had them all the time it would vary in strenght, for example for a few hours it was bearable then other times it would feel like i was going to faint. My consultant last year told me i couldn't ride my horse as there was a chance that i could pass out. I am now allowed to ride but only in walk with others with me. I cannot trarvel abroad as insurance would be difficlut. So for me personnaly the irrgular heart beat has effected how i live my life, although at the time when my heart beat was all over the place i would say that effected my life. Either way, depending on how palpitions or irregular heart beat effects one person to another it is or can be debilitating. I thnk i can speak for others who says it effects or changes the way we are or live our lives