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Sometimes my heart feels like it skips a beat, and has to catch up with the skipped beat, is this normal? its been happening for about a year now
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Yes: You have accurately described what is happening. The heart likes to be in rhythm. When an extra (premature) beat happens, as it does for everyone, the heart pauses a moment to get back into the original rhythm. During the pause, there is extra time to fill so the next beat is extra strong. This is called "post-extra-systolic potentiation". Caffeine, alchohol, nicotine, fatigue, stress make it wors.
Answered 5/16/2016
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Probably is: Sporadic cardiac irregulararity is common in people with no heart disease . But you need to get checked by your doctor to determine that there is nothing else causing it.
Answered 8/18/2013
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