Hi!  I am a 37 year old female. Fit (i run 3-4times a week) and healthy (normal range BMI).  I have an irregular heartbeat though. I can feel my heart doing summersaults at times and then I take my pulse and feel my hearts skipping a beat.  This just happens anytime (no excitement or stress needed).  My average heartrate is 60 beats per minute.  Is this normal? Should I go see a doctor?
Hi, Irregular heart beat can be due to some benign conditions like ectopic(extra heart beats from a normal heart), sinus arrhythmia (change in heart beat due to respiration) or more serious conditions like Atrial Fibrillation. To diagnose you need to do an ECG at the time of irregular heart beat. You can follow up with me after the ECG. Sometimes an ECG does not tell everything, and we put patients on 24 hr ECG monitoring called Holder Monitoring. So, to rule everything is normal, at least do an ECG. Thanks