Originally Posted by fredweena

Sweetpea... I have the same thing happen several times a year for about six weeks in a row, then nothing for a month or so, etc. It happpens at the strangest times. Sometimes I'm just lying in bed and it slams really hard three or four times and quits for a beat or two, then goes back to normal. Sometimes it'll repeat and sometimes that's it for the night. My docs thought they heard a slight murmur once-upon-a-time, but no one's mentioned it for years. I'm fairly healthy, physically, these days but it's been my norm for years.

My bubba has a congenital heart defect and his cardiologist told me it was "completely normal for your heart to hiccup every once in awhile especially with stress. If you black out or have pain with it, do us a favor and go to the emergency room. Otherwise, just chill". Of course, it was said with a very heavy Spanish accent and hearing this intelligent pediatric heart surgeon tell me to "chill" was hilarious. But Dr Giroud is one of the foremost in his field in the south. It definitely warrants a mention to your doc, regardless, but especially if it starts occuring more frequently than it has in the previous two months or so.