If you have heart palpitations, your heart may feel like it is pounding, fluttering or beating irregularly, often for just a few seconds or minutes. But no need for heart palpitations anxiety.
To help lessen heart palpitations:
• Decrease your stress level (Learn biofeedback, deep breathing and/or relaxation exercises such as yoga, tai chi, or guided imagery)
• Limit alcohol
• Limit caffeinated beverages
• Do not smoke or use tobacco products
Some persons with palpitations have no heart disease or abnormal heart rhythms and the reasons for their palpitations are unknown. In others, palpitations result from abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias). Your doctor may order certain tests or refer you to a cardiologist who may order additional tests such as: blood and urine tests, electrocardiogram (EKG), stress test, chest x-ray, echocardiogram (heart ultrasound), and a heartbeat monitoring test called an ambulatory cardiac monitor.