Heart palpitations are a feeling like your heart is missing heartbeats, racing or pounding. You can feel palpitations in your chest, throat or neck.
Palpitations can happen at any time, even if you’re resting or doing normal activities. Although they may be startling, palpitations usually aren’t serious or harmful. However, they can sometimes be related to an abnormal heart rhythm that needs medical attention.
Many people experience palpitations (the feeling that their heart is momentarily racing or pounding), a skipped or extra beat or a fluttering or forceful beat.
When you feel a “skipped” beat, what you are probably experiencing is an early heartbeat. Because the heart contracts before the ventricles have had time to fill with blood, there is little or no blood pushed out to the body. Therefore you don’t feel that contraction as a beat. The next beat will feel more forceful, as an extra volume of blood is then pushed out.
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