3. Skipped beats
Skipped beats might be one of the light symptoms of Long QT syndrome people get more worried about because even if in themselves they are not dangerous or any sign of a serious problem going on, our instinct can tell us that they mean there is something wrong with our heart. Skipped beats are often experienced along with arrhythmia because technically they are an alteration in our heart rate. From the patient’s point of view, skipped beats are experienced as a brief suspension of the beating of the heart.
Sometimes the heart does skip a beat, but in most cases, it just waits for too long between two beats, so it seems that the next beat has been skipped in its entirety. Long QT syndrome causes the heart to take too long from one beat to the next, so it isn’t uncommon to observe skipped beats in people with this syndrome.