Right, this is embarrassing to admit but last Tuesday at about 2am I was absolutely convinced I was dying. Heart just going absolutely haywire, lying there in the dark counting beats and catastrophising. Woke my husband up twice. He was very patient about it but I could tell he didn't really know what to say. I've had palpitations on and off for months now and the night-time ones are a different beast entirely. During the day I can at least distract myself. At night it's just me and the racing heart and my brain going to the worst place immediately. I've started writing down the time when they happen, how long roughly, what I was doing before, whether I'd had anything with caffeine after about 2pm. Not sure it'll amount to much but I feel slightly less out of control having it written somewhere. Last week I cut back on the afternoon tea and the evenings do seem a bit calmer, though I'm not reading too much into a week's worth of data. When I finally get to see my GP I want to ask what tests would actually tell us something useful. ECG I assume? But is there anything else I should be pushing for? I don't want to go in and just get told it's anxiety and sent home. It might BE anxiety, fine, but I'd like someone to actually rule things out first. x