Heart "flutters"/skipping beats

[Elodiah]

This is my latest thing. My heart has been skipping beats and having "flutters" for over a week now. I've had this issue occasionally for many years, but usually it only lasts a day or two; I don't think I've ever had it last this long before.

My mother has asked a GP about this in the past when she had experienced it, and he told her it's "perfectly normal".    I'm not massively stressed about it, it's more annoying than anything else. But I get worried because I know that I have very high cholesterol (genetic condition, but I'm not on meds for it.. yet), and when a tiny problem like this lasts for more than a few days it starts making me concerned that I do have a heart problem.

[Quietowl]

Very common and the more that you think about it, the more that it worries you. And even can make your symptoms worse.

Is there any way you can lower your cholesterol without meds? High cholesterol is unhealthy anyway, but you'll probably feel a sense of relief if you can lower it.

[dantescritic]

 I absolutely also have this. Do you have runs of it that last several seconds? Also do you ever get it during exercise? I do.

[sassparella]

I had this when I was younger and started suffering anxiety. Anxiety can cause palpitations and the more anxious you are and the longer you are anxious the worse they can get, but they are normally totally harmless, just uncomfortable.

[Elodiah]

Thanks all, it's really bugging me, but I am SO not willing to go and see the doctor yet again right now, so I will just let it go for the time being.

[marc]

I have been getting them off and on for over 25 years.

[CanadianGuy87]

Thought I was the only one. Hey marc, thanks for this! Just makes me more optimistic for my future!

I am new here as well and thank you all!

[anxiousa]

I get this too & it can go on for weeks at a time. Uts hirrible but normL

[clockwise]

I had a period of these palpitations a few years ago, lasting on and off for about four months.  Sometimes I would get a long string of missed beat after missed beat lasting at least 10 seconds, many times a day.  Does not sound like much, but 10 seconds of your heart flip flopping in your chest seems like an eternity when you're experiencing it.  Funny thing was for me, it all starting during a period of relative low anxiety, go figure.  My doctor was not concerned from the very start of it all but still sent me for testing to alleviate my worry that developed because of it.  After 2 ekg's, a holter monitor and a cardiac ultrasound, all clear, condition benign, nothing to worry about.

As quickly as they started, one day around Christmas they suddenly stopped happening.  The body is a funny thing!  I would try not to worry...you seem pretty calm...just try and ignore it as best as you can!