Heart palpitations - anxiety symptoms

Heart palpitations: Heart palpitations feel like your heart is pounding, racing, beating fast, beating too hard, skips a beat, or feels like it stops or flops in your chest. When it feels like it skips a beat, stops, or flops, it can also produce a feeling like a tickle in your chest that makes you cough. If you take your pulse, you may notice that your heartbeats are unevenly spaced.

The heart's rhythm may be normal or abnormal. Palpitations can be felt in your chest, throat, or neck.

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 heart palpitations.