Palpitations Overview

Palpitations Guide

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  • Summary
  • Definition
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  • Other Names
  • When to Contact a Medical Professional
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Definition

Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like your heart is pounding or racing. You may simply have an unpleasant awareness of your own heartbeat, or may feel skipped or stopped beats. The heart's rhythm may be normal or abnormal. Palpitations can be felt in your chest, throat, or neck.

See also: Arrhythmia


Causes

Heart palpitations can be caused by:


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Encyclopedia: Palpitation

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A palpitation is an abnormal awareness of the beating of the heart, whether it is too slow, too fast, irregular, or at its normal frequency. The difference between an abnormal awareness and a normal awareness is that the latter is almost always caused by a concentration on the beating of one's heart and the former interrupts other thoughts. Palpitations may be brought on by overexertion, adrenaline, alcohol, caffeine, disease or...


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palpitations?
I have been very stressed lately, just had my period and have been bedridden for...

Palpitations in your setting could be (a) stress or anxiety related, such as with panic attacks, (b) related to anemia [from menstruation], (c) due to dehydration and/or an electrolyte imbalance...

Asked by goldie locks - 10 months ago

How do you make the distinction between normal awareness of heart beat and heart palpitations?...
Heart palpitations are the irregular awareness of the heart beating. You dont have to...

If you can actually FEEL your heart beating in your chest you are having palpitations. Point Blank Period

Asked by st4lkr - 10 months ago

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  • What are palpitations?

    A palpitation is an awareness of the beating of the heart, whether it is too slow, too fast, irregular, or at its normal frequency. Palpitations may be brought on by overexertion, adrenaline, alcohol, disease (such...

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    Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like your heart is pounding or racing. You may have an unpleasant awareness of your own heartbeat, or may feel skipped or missed beats. The heart's rhythm may be...


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