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From: BBB
Date: 08 Sep 2004
Time: 16:29:45
Remote Name: 80.41.44.253
Most palpitations (which is how people describe and awareness of their heartbeat or awareness of an unusual heartbeat) are harmless in normal, healthy hearts. BUT you need to establish that your heart is normal and healthy! You also need to rule out any non cardiac causes of palpitations like a thyroid problem.
Unless they are sustained, though, palpitations are difficult for a doctor to diagnose because more often than not a person's heart sounds perfectly normal when they listen to it. Even an EKG may not pick anything up, although this is useful to rule certain other problems out, so anyone with palpitations should have one. A Holter monitor that you wear for a period of time might catch the rhythm causing the palpitations, and an event monitor when you record the heart rhythm when you feel the palpitations is good too.
Go to your doctor see what they think.