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Posted 8/18/2014 4:27 AM (GMT 0)
This is going to sound so ridiculous, but I really need some advice right now.

Yup, I've posted before about heart flutters, but I feel like I need more reassurance. I've had heart flutters that come and go since last August (about 1 year now) and suddenly I've had this severe OCD over them: fearing when they will happen next, especially. I know they are harmless and my doctor told me by looking at the EKG and my family members, but I just need to know how to shake this OCD about these constant thoughts about when the next heart flutter will be. It's really taking a toll on me, and it's scary how much I'm thinking about this. I've had a history of OCD phases since I was in about 5th grade, (I'm now graduated from high school).

If any of you have heart flutters, do you worry about them, or just accept them? How can you deal with the thought in the back of your mind of the unpredictability of when the next one will come?
Posted 8/18/2014 6:39 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Grace

Sorry to hear you are having these OCD thoughts I can relate as I also have OCD and now how debilitating it can be. I often get heart flutters and it does make me anxious but like you had things checked out by the doctor and given the all clear.

What you need to focus on is not the heart flutters but the OCD thoughts that you are getting these can be addressed by doing some sort of talking therapies such as CBT or Mindfulness which teach you ways of dealing with those thoughts and gives you techniques on how to deal with them better so they don'y impact your life as much. I have done a thread on both CBT & Mindfulness and you should be able to find them by using the search engine.

Keep posting here and let us know how you are getting on we are here to support you.

Hibee
Posted 8/18/2014 7:50 PM (GMT 0)
Grace, I can totally relate as I have the flutters too and have since I was in my early 20s (just turned 51). I too have been checked out on numerous occasions and cleared by doctors that it is only anxiety. That doesn't make it any easier to deal with but piece of mind that all is ok. You're not alone.
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