Wow. Lots of palpitations over the last year BUT I JUST FOUND OUT HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN ON COMMAND. Laying on left side even propped up, if i reach my right arm over my chest and almost squeeze my pecs together, boom, heart pumps hard flutters. Why?

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A 20-year-old female asked:

Palpitations? I get a flutter/twitch feeling in my chest towards the left center. Followed by what feels like a skipped/paused beat. Felt in pulse too

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A 33-year-old female asked:

When i take my rescue inhaler it makes my palpitations worse and i get fluttering. I take a beta blocker daily. Now my hr is so high 197 , chest hurt?

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A 37-year-old female asked:

Palpitations from anxiety per doctor. Seem to be more severe lately. Entire chest seems to flutter. Also worse on exhaling after deep breath. Normal?

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A 53-year-old female asked:

Have frequent heart flutters,palpitation,&chest pain. Recent stress-echo test was fine&7days monitor show no significant arrhythmia.When I was lying down on my L side on a thick comforter,its corner hit into the side of my L breast.Can it harm heart?

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A 53-year-old female asked:

I have frequent flutters,palpitation,&chest pain.Stress-echo test is fine 6 months ago & recent 7 days monitoring shows no significant arrhythmia. The side of a thick pillow hit the side of my R breast next to my R armpit. Can this harm my heart?

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A 33-year-old female asked:

Why does my chest feel sore after days of constant palpitations and fluttering ?.

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A 26-year-old female asked:

Can acid reflux cause a fluttering or quiver sensation in your chest? Or actually cause palpitations?

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A 50-year-old member asked:

Palpitations, heart flutters, like your heart drops in your chest likes its drowning and then goes back to normal, what to do?

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A 31-year-old member asked:

Heart palpitations, flutter and bubble sensation all over and lingering chest pain. Any helpful info?

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A 27-year-old male asked:

I've been experiencing a fluttering sensation in my chest (i suppose where the sternum is) for the past two weeks. Heart palpitations?

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A 22-year-old female asked:

Had virtually every diagnostic test- all negative. Still have constant palpitations, spasms in heart, cough, heart fluttering, chest pain. What is it?

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A 26-year-old male asked:

Sitting at computer and felt a flutter in chest. I assumed palpitation.I immediately checked pulse in neck andwas no strong beat, just weak stutter.

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A 31-year-old male asked:

I just started Zoloft 3 days ago and have noticed heart palpitations or flutter feeling in upper chest all night on my 3rd day of medication and this morning. Is this a normal reaction to the medication? Im 31 years old and otherwise healthy?

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A 34-year-old male asked:

Not sure what I'm feeling with my heart. Once in a while when working out, I'll feel a flutter or two in my chest. But maybe it's a palpitation. Feels like it beats REALLY hard for a single beat. Arrhythmia runs in my family. Should I be concerned?

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A 17-year-old female asked:

Is a high heart rate followed by palpitations and sometimes chest pain bad at 17? I have anxiety and I work out a lot. I am healthy and in shape but my heart rate reaches 202. When I am just sitting down my heart flutters and feels like its dropping?

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A 20-year-old female asked:

Recently been getting random palpitations often, no chest flutters or dizziness, 30 sec ecg always normal, could it be an arrhythmia?

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A 28-year-old female asked:

Increased palpitations and heart flutters general chest discomfort (no heart disease + normal echo) medication or un noticed subconscious anxiety?

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A 54-year-old female asked:

I have some light heart problems: palpitation, heart flutters, chest pain, an enlarged aorta (not to the dangerous level). Can intermittent fasting (I want to do it when I don't feel hungry and probably once or twice a week) harm my heart?

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A 18-year-old female asked:

Been having heart palpitations for a around a week now, i'll usually get around 2-3 flutters and fast heartbeat.Had clear ekg, chest x-ray, blood test.

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A 20-year-old female asked:

I did an echocardiogram and the impression was possible bicuspid aortic valve with trace aortic regurgitation. Trace tricuspid regurgitation and pulmonic regurgitation. What does this mean ? I have severe chest pain, heart palpitations, and flutters?

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A 47-year-old female asked:

Fluttering feeling in chest, feels like heart pulputations. Just as i fell asleep. Always goes away after 10 / 15 minutes?

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A 30-year-old male asked:

Having fluttering/ palpitation feeling upper stomach, no chest pain but it's very uncomfortable lasts about a minute.happens more when laying down ?

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A 26-year-old female asked:

Having a flutter/popping feeling in my chest where my collar bones meet. I have mild palipitations, and MS, frequency has increased over the last week?

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A 53-year-old female asked:

Have frequent flutters,palpitation&chest pain.Recent 7days monitor findings:no significant arrhythmia.There are absolutely no arrhythmia detected on auto-triggered&patient-triggered events.Does it mean I have arrhythmia but it is not " significant"?

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A 47-year-old female asked:

I am 47 years old and female .I have been having a fluttering sensation on left side under ribs for about a day and a half .what could this be? I also have a burning pain behind my sternum and if I eat it makes the pain in my sternum worse?

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A 23-year-old female asked:

Am getting sharp stabbing pain on my left side of my chest and some times gets flutters?

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A member asked:

What causes something that keeps beating quickly for a few times every now and then in the upper leff chest.exactly 4 cm under collarbone 3 cm to the left side..literally beating like fluttering every few minutes.feels weird?

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A 17-year-old male asked:

I have a weird spastic/fluttering feeling in the left side of my chest just below the peck. I'm scared it's my heart. It's happening a lot today?

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A 33-year-old female asked:

Iaying on my left side , tachycardia, chest pain with with occasional flutters . Lately I have had an increase in these symptoms. Are they a concern ?

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