Anxiety symptoms - Irregular heart rhythms, heart flutters or ‘skipped’ heart beats

Irregular heart rhythms, heart flutters or skipped heart beats: Your heart feels like it skips a beat or flops in your chest. It sometimes may feel like a tickle in your chest that makes you cough. If you take your pulse, you'll notice that sometimes the beats are unevenly spaced.

NOTE: There are direct physiological and psychological reasons why anxiety symptoms occur. The members area contains detailed information about common anxiety symptoms including what they are, why they occur, and what you can do to eliminate them. It includes the anxiety symptom irregular heart beats.