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Been down that path. Mine almost feels like it stops. I'm immediately aware of it. After about 2 seconds it comes back with a couple of rapid beats, as if to make up for those it missed.
Did the Holter monitor a couple of times. Of course, not much went on during that time. Thought I'd caught an episode, hit the button to mark it, but when they reviewed the records they said everything looked good.
Despite being in decent shape for 51, my heart does weird things.... high beat count for level of exertion, skips a beat sometimes, and my least favorite, high beat rate due to stress. If I'm at an auction and there's something I'm just thinking about bidding on, my heart rate can go up to 120-140 beats per minute while I'm just standing there. My normal resting heart rate is about 55.
I mentioned all this to my primary care doc a couple of years ago, which got me a stress test. They saw "something" on those results that got me a nuclear stress test, which came back as normal.
At this point, I figure my heart has been tested every which way and will probably keep on ticking. Even so, at 51, I have to consider that my brother died in his sleep of a heart attack at age 50 and my dad had the first of a couple of heart attacks at age 55.
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