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> When I stand up, my heart skips another beat. Weird. This is getting annoying, I think to myself. Wow, I can relate. Had some tests done because I was having

> When I stand up, my heart skips another beat. Weird. This is getting annoying, I think to myself. Wow, I can relate. Had some tests done because I was having so many palpitations I couldn't sleep. Multiple per hour. They became far worse whenever I shifted positions (standing -> laying down, vice versa). I've always had some infrequent palpitations, but those scared me. Tests, as usual, didn't catch anything. Only reason my doctor even saw something is that I managed to capture some with the Apple watch. This was even during a break so it wasn't even work-related stress. I was drinking a whole lot of caffeine (couple of big mugs) plus maybe 1L of Earl Gray tea. I cut caffeine - palpitations got _worse_ (initially). Then they subsided. It's been one year. I even went back to some coffee again. There seems to be a threshold.

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Unklejoe 5y ago
Same. I was having PVCs, which felt like skipped beats, but it's actually a premature contraction (that you sometimes can't feel) that occurs between beats, so there's a compensatory pause, so it feels like there was a skipped beat. I was having 20,000 a day. I was consuming a shit ton of caffeine (like 600 mg a day), and I quit cold turkey once I noticed the insane PVCs. The PVCs did reduce in the following months, but I still ended up having an ablation to get rid of them. Maybe if I would have waited longer they would have gone away completely, I don't know.