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What Causes Irregular Heart Rate?

Hi,my heart is skipping beats,I am on vit b12 jabs for fatuige, the 1st 6 jabs over 2 weeks really helped but after my 2nd 2monthly jab I seem to have gone to how in was before.I was wondering if my heart skipping beats has anything to do with this.I have had a heart trace and all seemed OK.
Fri, 9 Jun 2017
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Hello,

Regarding your concern, I would explain that long-term (chronic) anemia related to vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to skipped heartbeats.

But other possible causes of heartbeats are: anxiety, electrolyte imbalance, and thyroid dysfunction. Coming to this point, I would recommend consulting with your doctor for some new tests (complete blood count, blood electrolytes, and thyroid hormone levels). If these tests result are normal, you should consider anxiety as the main cause of your troubles.

Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Ilir Sharka
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What Causes Irregular Heart Rate?

Hello, Regarding your concern, I would explain that long-term (chronic) anemia related to vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to skipped heartbeats. But other possible causes of heartbeats are: anxiety, electrolyte imbalance, and thyroid dysfunction. Coming to this point, I would recommend consulting with your doctor for some new tests (complete blood count, blood electrolytes, and thyroid hormone levels). If these tests result are normal, you should consider anxiety as the main cause of your troubles. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Ilir Sharka