To think this is probably stress and anxiety? (Please help I'm not in a good place )

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I've been a mess for a while now.
I am getting therapy.
I get PVCs (which a extra heartbeats)
Had all the checks and came back my heart is 100% healthy and that it is anxiety /stress related.
This morning I woke up and checked my phone and I had a missed call ..rang back and it was the ambulance service saying my gran was rushed into hospital.
My heart literally started skipping beat after beat from that moment ..I was pacing the floor,I was shouting and couldn't control myself.
It went on for 6 hours.
Then stopped.
I had convinced myself I must have a serious undiagnosed disease but it can't be coincidence it started a min after the ambulance service rang me?

CBT will definately help but you have to give it time to help you change your mindset. Once you feel more confident in going out, take it little by little. This can and will pass OP, but there's no magic switch, and you have to work at it - but it sounds like you want to, which is good. I wish you all the best.

This afternoon what I can't understand they settled down,2 hours with none.
I stood up to make a cup of tea and straight away skipped beat after skipped beat.
They stopped 15 mins after sitting down.
How can that be anxiety /stress?
If I just stood up.
I felt calm.
That's what makes me think it's something really awful.

I posted a couple of months ago I think.
Well I did post yesterday too but that was about my PMDD /tiredness.
I'm not sure I have healthy anxiety just this horrible skipped extra beat anxiety

I did convince myself I had POTS but my therapist said she doesn't think so as I don't faint

Because anxiety can come on for no reason at all, or in your case because you're waiting for it to happen.

The cardiologist has told you there is nothing wrong. That's an expert with years of experience. Do you think they're wrong?

It's not that I think they are wrong about my heart being healthy but there must be something happening in my body to cause it.
Especially if it's triggered by moving,my blood pressure or maybe the blood isn't getting to my heart when I stand up or maybe I do have pots or CFS and the ectopic beats are a symptom

Also when your heart is adding thousands of extra beats a day ..it's hard to think that's normal

but there must be something happening in my body to cause it.

There is. It's called anxiety.

I'm sorry but you've posted about this countless times and you get the same responses every time. You have a debilitating condition - anxiety - and that is just as valid as any physical condition. Work on getting help for your condition, and in time your health anxieties will subside too.

It isn't normal as such, it's stress. It's how stress works - it dumps adrenaline into your bloodstream so you can do the fight/flight response and the body is heightened to be super alert hence the racing heart/beatskipping and the whole rest of it. This reaction doesn't just happen though when it's needed - ie when you are faced with an immediate threat. It happens at all sorts of odd times which is why it then interferes with daily life so much, because you can't see an immediate trigger.

I think you are onto something when you say it's your body saying enough is enough. If there is anything causing stress in your life you can somehow reduce or cut out, that may help. If not, that it is just a matter of managing it for the moment. Try to remember that it's not forever, it's just this moment, and like every other time, it will pass. Learn strategies to calm yourself and practice them regularly (daily at least). Most of all, be kind to yourself, take time out for what you want to do, and put yourself first occasionally.

I'm aware I've posted about it a few times but my life is a total living hell with it and speaking about it on here is the only thing I can do.
I just want to get well again,I miss my life.

Post as many times as you like OP. Mumsnet is a great source of support.

Update -woke up at 6 am with my heart skipping beats every few seconds again.
Had enough so took a propranolol (beta blocker ) just half a tablet and it's eased them a lot.

I know how you feel, anxiety is awful and makes alsorts of strange feelings and symptoms. I get the palps too, I went through a stage of having chest pain on and off, and I can just be doing every day things and they will just start again! Ive had a 24 hour monitor, god knows how many ecgs, and they have told me the same, all is OK! So just got to keep telling yourself that. I've thought about trying yoga as hear thats good for stress and anxiety. Hugs to you!