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Thanks for any insights!

Hi, US citizen here who has been to Germany many times. In early August I have a business class itinerary (booked through United) from Berlin to Munich to New York (EWR) with exactly 2 hours to connect at MUC.

With all the border control issues they’ve been having with the new system, am I going to be in trouble for my connection? Is there anything I can do to make it go faster? What should I do if I don’t make it? I think it’s the last flight to New York of the day.

I’m fairly heat-sensitive and trying to plan for my commute tomorrow…

More detail: It doesn't have to be super cheap but I don't want any designer logos, and I need prisms in my lenses. Thanks!

Let’s say there’s a cute guy you see frequently at work but have never met. He looks gay but you’re not 100% sure. You don’t have his insta so you don’t know whether you have any mutual friends. You haven’t seen him on apps. You’re in different departments and neither of you are bosses, so there’s no hierarchical power imbalance. It’s a small-ish office and you’re relatively new. Would you hit on him, and if so, how?

Lately I’ve been getting these morning sensations when I wake up, not every day but pretty frequently. It feels like a gentle internal rumbling in my chest, like something is consistently vibrating but too subtle for anyone else to feel. And then that gets interrupted by frequent catching or pausing sensations, like something briefly stops and resets.

The weird part is that when I try to check my pulse (on my neck or ear) during these episodes it usually feels steady and regular, not skipped or irregular like I’d expect. I don’t have any ekg device to actually verify that though.

I have also been noticing more actual PVCs during the day lately, the familiar breathless thud/skip I recognize from years of having them, though a recent monitor apparently showed still very low burden.

Curious if anyone has experienced something like this, where the sensation feels cardiac but doesn’t seem to line up with an actual irregular pulse. Wondering if this could still be PVCs in some form, or something else like chest wall muscle twitching, esophageal spasm, or just anxiety doing its thing.

For you would this be a one strike and you’re out kind of thing? I’m still shocked that he said something like to me, even though I don’t think he would actually physically hurt me.

It’s not like everything between us is perfect anyway, so I’m using this as the motivating factor to get out of there and start fresh on my own.

My partner apologized — and I doubt he would actually hurt me, he never has before— but I’m still staying elsewhere presently to be extra safe.

Would it trigger mandatory reporting?

I want to see what’s out there and check whether I can afford it (or in which locations I could afford it). I just love the idea of having a place nobody else has used before.

For what it’s worth, I also had the same taste of blood after lunch earlier today, and spit out some actual small amounts of blood after flossing last night (which was 12 hours after the dental cleaning). There was hardly any blood during the cleaning itself.

I’ve had a long history of PVCs and other palpitations but luckily usually a very low % burden. But I don’t have much recent data on it because I don’t own a home monitor and the latest monitors from my doctor are from a few years ago.

Lately I’ve been waking up at night with a lot of anxiety, feeling like I’m having a ton of gentle PVCs. Since I’m half asleep (and don’t have a monitor device), it’s hard to know with any certainty what’s actually going on. When I intentionally feel my pulse with my fingers during this late night episodes, it actually does feel like I’m having frequent gentle PVCs, but again it’s hard to be sure when I’m half asleep and don’t have a monitor device.

I think it’s likely that the PVCs are harmless (even if maybe greatly increased in frequency during these episodes) but late at night it still creates this massive sense of anxiety, dread, and worry, which in turn disrupts my sleep for the rest of the night. And of course inadequate sleep messed up everything in life.

And I hate this uncertainty feeling of not knowing what’s real versus imaginary, what’s anxiety versus reality, what’s dangerous versus harmless. It’s making me want to run back to my cardiologist (who I’ve been trying not to bother) and run to a psychiatrist…

Anyone have insights or similar experiences?

Thanks.

(FWIW I’m 44m, lots of cardiac workup five years ago which didn’t find anything concerning, taking metoprolol anyway to keep things calm because of the variety of palpitations documented in my years-ago monitors despite low % burden).

Hi, I’m a 42 year old male. I’ve had PVCs and various other palps (including occasional super brief NSVT runs and some random heart racing incidents) for years. Luckily my burden % has always been quite low, with the exception of a few brief flareups. Did a bunch of workup (stress echo, CTA, MRI) 5-10 years ago which didn’t raise any red flags. I’ve been on Metoprolol ER for 5 years as well — which my doc said is more to control the symptoms rather than for safety reasons as he doesn’t believe I’m in any health danger.

Anyway, just wanted to vent or get anyone else’s experiences or insights: over the past few months I’ve been noticing that almost every morning I get a sensation of numerous gentle popping skipped beats (probably PVCs?) while I’m in bed waking up. It seems to be a few per minute for about 15 minutes. It’s possible it goes on longer but that I can’t feel it as clearly after I get up and start moving around. I don’t have a home ekg monitor so I haven’t captured what they actually are.

Any thoughts about why this would be happening every day specifically in the morning? Thanks.