|
You absolutely need to at least call your doctor and describe these symptoms. There are lots of things that this could be signaling from the benign to the catastrophic. I don't know if you follow professional basketball at all, but last year the Bulls sat one of their best players, Eddie Curry because of an irregular heartbeat and ended up letting him go because they were so concerned about it. He's still playing (for the Knicks), and he was diagnosed with an enlarged heart. If you have a history of a heart murmur, there could be other repercussions. Again, I don't think that you need to race to the emergency room or anything, but a call to your doctor to ask is certainly in order, and an office visit isn't a bad idea either.
If your heart is skipping beats (especially 5 or 6) then that's far too long in my book. At 70 beats per minute, it's roughly 5 seconds, which is long enough for the brain to start to get oxygen starved.
Please talk to a doctor as soon as you get the chance, and good luck!
|