Bystolic for skipped heart beats

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My Doctor game me a months worth of Bystolic, which is a beta blocker. My resting heart beat is @ 48-52 and up moving around it is @ 60. I work out two- three times a week, lifting and cardio. I am a very strong 55 yr old, in really good shape. A muscular 230 lbs. My worry is my heart beat is too slow for Bystolic. One of their warnings is not to take it if you have a slow heart beat, is mine too slow?

I am writing because about a month ago I started noticing my heart skipping beats more often. My heart had done this many times in the past but not like it has been doing this month. It happens more often and the feeling is very strong. It is happening everyday many times a day. I noticed that it does not matter what I am doing and my heart does not have to be racing at the time it happens. Actually it has happened many times this month when I was just sitting down.

well about 3 weeks after all my test one night my heart started beating very fast and skipping or dropping everywhere beat. i went to the we were an ekg showed i had a first degree morbid one blockage but since i had no symptoms that sent me home. next morning i went to my heart doctor who did an ekg and it showed normal so she thought maybe i had a panic attack. i started taking the beta blocker after this happens but got awful side affects and couldn't take enough of it to do any good.

I was admitted into the hospital and seen by a cardiologist. I was told I had an episode of SVT. I was put on Bystolic to bring my heart rate and blood pressure down and that seemed to help. I had a stress test done the next day and the cardiologist told me everything was clear. I also wore a heart monitor for 2 weeks and was told that my skipped beats that I sometimes have are PACS. I was okay for a while but started having chest pain and more skipped beats.

i have posted before about somei ssues now like always i have another one i was takeing metatoprol 50mg 2 a day and i was gettingskipped beats andhe took me off the metatoprol and has putmeon bystolic hesaidit hadless of a beta blocker in it well since i have been takeing itmy heart rate has been lower it hasbeen 55 to 60 i am a 23 year oldmale and was pu ton the toprol for averag eheart rate of 78 to 81( holter monitor) i dont feel i need a beta blocker at all or did i need it is that heartrate

I play soccer, and this is probably one of the worst sports to have this in, although it ***** in any sport, I'm sure! I don't ever feel pauses or skipped beats, just such an exaggerated response to any activity whatsoever. It's ridiculous! I really don't know what I'd do if this couldn't be fixed, it's so miserable as you know. I have been on antidepressants for anxiety long before this started, and I really don't think this is mental, but I guess a psychiatrist could never hurt.

His heart is not actually skipping a beat. It is really an extra beat and the skipping sensation is the compensatory pause to let the heart fill back up and literally "catch up". These are rarely dangerous, but if they are new they need to be reported to your doctor so they can be checked out to be safe.

It will send out a little electrical pulse which will make an extra beat (feels like a skipped beat) and then the heart goes back to norm after a few more strong beats. In a way I feel lucky to know my body is well tuned, but on the other hand this cause palps/anxiety! Also some of you might find it interesting to know that the vegus nerve (runs right though the middle of your body and basically connects/affects everything) can cause your heart to send off an extra beat if stimulated.

I recently stopped the flecainide and have had no significant a-fib that I can discern, although some skipped beats. I do continue to take bystolic and azor for high blood pressure. However, since discontinuing the flecanide, I have had what I would describe as a pounding heartbeat (not rapid), dizziness, and consistent blood pressure readings of 140s/50s.

He said most people don't notice their heart beats, but those of us with heart issues often have an awarness of their beats. He said it was as if we had a direct line from the brain to the heart that makes us sensitive to what our heart is doing. It may be that your awarness has nothing to do with beta blockers. It is just that you have learned to tune in to what is happening with your heart.

In some individuals, under certain conditions, it can be pretty pronounced, with more than 50% change in heart rate (from my own experience) and this may be perceived as skipped beats or double beats (extrasystoles) when switching from inspiration to expiration. I doubt your exercise intolerance is caused by sinus arrhythmia. When exercising, you are stimulating the sympatethic nerve system and sinus arrhythmia usually is less pronounced.

if you had svt they monitor would have caught it, i will warn you that meds for the heart will create irregular heart rythm, what meds are you on?

I can't imagine I would have heart disease. I had all the heart tests (echo, ecg, stress test, holter) done two years ago and passed with flying colors. I run 3 miles 3 times a week and lift weights as well. Plus i'm 27. Heart disease does not run in my family. I imagine they are PVCs/PACs. I feel flutters "skipped beats" periodically throughout the day in the center of my chest.

I also take Metropolol, 12.5 mgs as needed, for skipped beats and a rapid heart beat (around 120-130 at times, unknown cause) So today, im grocery shopping, beautiful day, relaxed as can be and I start getting the BIG<PAINFUL skips. They started coming at about every 3rd or 4th beat -- I could feel every single one with a big, hard thud each time. I ended up driving myself to the hospital and waiting to see if the Metropolol I popped worked.

It is very hard to concentrate on anything when you are constantly feeling like someone is choking you, and you heart is skipping beats and pounding. The first cardiologist I went to told me there were two things they could do for me, put me on medication or a pacemaker. Then proceeded to tell me that I was too young for a pacemaker (I'm 47). I'm not saying I'd like to have a pacemaker, but I don't like that he would take one of my two options off the table due to my age.

I'm currently taking Bystolic (have been taking it for 2 months) - still no help. My primary symptom is a sudden kick or lurch in my stomach when the skipped beat occurs. This can go on all day, many hundreds of times. These episodes are dramatically impacting my work, sleep, and exercise and leisure time. I've tried a few low dose tranquilizer type drugs (obtained from relatives) and these seem to help a bit.

Palpitations, extra beats, irregular heartbeat, pounding heart, racing heart, skipped beats, rapid pulse, heart fluttering Chest pain, chest tightness Lightheadedness, dizziness, almost passing out Fatigue, weakness Anxiety/panic attacks Shortness of breath Headaches In may of this year I was diagnosed with mild MVP with mild regurgitation. According to my cardiologist I was born with it. I als have MVPS.

Goood morning everyone I'm new here and been reading your posts , I have had similar episodes to the ones mentioned , I had a really scary episode last night I had to call rescue , they came and did EKG,blod work and the preliminary results were everything looked fine , my episodecstartedcthis way I had dose of for a couple of hours, right before that had a bowl of soup with rice, I woke up with a fullness , and all of a sudden I started to feel the palpitations and heart skip , every 4th beat ,

I have been able to catch it while feeling my pulse, and it does coincide with my heart skipping a beat. It seemed to come and go, I'd not feel it for weeks, even months, and then it would come back and stick around for a period of time, and then vanish again. Lately, and this is the reason for my post in the first place, it has been happening way more frequently. It started about 2 months ago, where I began to notice it multiple times a day.

so if you're like most yours would be about 16,000 pvc's since the average heart beats 100,000 in a 24 hour period... there's some of us who have high frequency pvc's and just live with them, treat them with bb' and some have ablations, I chose ablation hoping for a cure and neither ablation or meds worked for long and my dr quoted something like 95% success rate...

I feel like if I have any skipped beats that means I need to stay on the meds, but that's crazy because I have skipped beats while on the meds too :-) As you can see I don't know what to do. The funny thing is I posted on here a few months ago about how I could not WAIT to come off of these things because I felt like they were making me very lethargic, etc. Well, once I went down to 12.5 mg I felt SO much better, and like I said, that has been over the past two months.

I have been dealing with 24/7 PACs - 28,000 extra beats every day -for over a year. The onset of this arrythmia condition was triggered by Kapidex. My cardiologist put me on cardia, bystolic, metropolol, and flecanaide, all of which made my symptoms worse. My condition has continued to worsen with constant, uncomfortable sensations of squeezing, pressure, burning in my chest area and debilitating fatigue if any exertion occurs such as exercise, walking, etc.

Or even become OCD with the heart? My EP calls it extreme cardiac awareness. I sure seem to have it. One bad skips days, I am bad for a few days after with it. Then I mellow out then another bad day will bring it around again. Have you noticed it can make your skips worse?It doesn't seem to effect mine as I don't seem to have triggers, mine just come and go as they please.

Hello there, I am new to this forum and have been reading it for a few days now. Hearing of other stories and problems has helped me relax a bit. My situation is as follows. I am a 30 y/o male 6"4 270 lbs not in horrible shape but not fit by any means. Last November I started getting "funny feelings" in my chest and after having my pulse checked by my wife and hearing the words "heart skips", I ended up in th ER.

All other tests he did other parts of echo, cardiolite stress and holter were perfect. I am still having a lot of heart anxiety, skipped beat sensations, and all over anxiousnous and can't seem to get past the PH issue. They say they aren't concerned at all. Maggie, do echos really read PH falsely that often??? I was told they do not. Also I don't understand why a right heart cath was not done 4 years ago instead of a TEE. They say I need neither and I am fine.

I am 34 years old and was in excellent physical condition. I go to the gym and lift weights 4x/week and was doing intense cardio (via hockey) 2 -3 times per week for years. In 2009 I went into Atrial flutter for the first time ever. Went to ER and ended up getting a cardiversion to restore regular rythm. I was absolutely fine until May of 2011, when I again went into Atrial flutter. By doctor's recommendation I went ahead and had an ablation.

When I get off the drug, my heart goes crazy for awhile, with the missed beats. Right now, I'm not taking anything. Dinner last nite went pretty well. It was a Mexican place. After dinner, it went through a series of hard PVC's for awhile. Then seemed to settle down. As one of you said, it seems that everything, and nothing can cause these. I know there must be a switch somewhere that turns them off. The challenge is finding the switch!

i wake up at midnight, or 3 or 6 am, with a fast heart beat and then a skipped beat every 3 beats, then 19 beats, then 12, then 5, etc. if i move around and deep breathe a bit i can kind of stop them. ive tried, but i cant find anything that causes them. i too have had every kind of test and am 'normal' although all sorts of things show up on holter monitors - and my doc says just forget about it.

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