HI,

I WANT TO SHOUT FROM THE ROOF TOPS!!!!AS A REGULAR VISITOR TO THIS SITE I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD BE TOLD!! AFTER TWENTYTwenty twenty FIVE YEARS OF FEELING LIKE A BUCKET OF SH*T I'VE FOUND HOPE. FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS I'VE SUFFERED PALPITATIONSHeart palpitations,EVERY DAY, SOME TIMES CARRYING ON FOR WEEKS. RACING HEARTCongenital heart disease
Cor pulmonale
Coronary heart disease
Cyanotic heart disease
Depression and heart disease
Heart attack
Heart attack first aid
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Heart disease, MISSED BEATS, NEARLY PASSING OUT...ETC... ETC.. HAD EVERY TEST, EVERY DRUGChemical dependence - resources
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Drug induced hypertension
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Drug-induced hypertension (NEARLY)

AND (WAS )DUE FOR ABLATION IN AUGUST... WELL TO CUTCuts and puncture wounds A VERY, VERY, LONG STORY SHORT - LAST MARCH (2003) I WENT TO MY DOC AND SAID WHAT IF THIS IS ALL IN MY HEADHead and face reconstruction
Head injury
Head lice
Indications of head injury
Radial head injury AND REALLY I'M SUFFERING FROM ANXIETYGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety? SO AFTER ALONG CHAT SHE PUT ME ON A DRUGChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension CALLED EFEXSOR AFTER SIX WEEKS I NOTICED A CHANGE, I WAS STILL GETTING PALPS BUT NOT TAKING ANY NOTICE OF THEM... BY XMAS ...GONE..

I STIL GET THE OCCASIONAL FLUTTERAtrial fibrillation/flutter BUT I'M HAPPY AS A PIG IN SH*T.. MY WHOLE LIFE HAS CHANGED COMPLETLY!!...I DON'T WAKE UP IN THE MORNING THINKING OF DEATHDiscussing death with children
Gangrene
Liver cell death
Loss of a child - resources
Sudden infant death syndrome IWAKE UP HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!

I COULD WRITE A BOOK ON A MILLION REASONS HOW THIS WONDERFUL DRUGChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension HAS TURNED MY WHOLE LIFE AROUND!! I THINK THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED EFEXSOR!! -THINK!! NO MORE WARS!! GO AND GET SOME NOW!! I'M OFF TO CARRY ON WITH MY NEW FOUND LIFE!! ALL THE BEST I LOVE YOU ALL!!

I am glad that you have found the solution in a SSRI, however what the question is related to has nothing to do with PAC's or PVC's caused by anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety.  The question has to do with SVTParoxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (psvt) that is multiMulti symptom cough and cold
Multi vita bets and fluoride and iron-focal.



One person's solution is not another's cure.

I wasn't responding to any particular question.My comment was aimed at everyone. Sooo soooorry if I approached it in the wrong way. I was merly trying to give another little bit of hope to anyone who has suffered with this debilitating condition and believe me mate I've tried everything over the years to stop these palpitationsHeart palpitations, from standing on my headHead and face reconstruction
Head injury
Head lice
Indications of head injury
Radial head injury, holding my breathBreath alcohol test
Breath holding spell
Breath odor to

jumping in a freezing cold river etc ..etc... and with your negative attitude pal, maybe you should go and see your quack

i reckon you're an ideal candidate for these tablets.

Dquenzer - Thanks for refocusing my question.  Nice to see you on this forum too.



Adey Cartoonist - thanks for your post and congratulations on finally finding a solution.  Unfortunately, my problems don't stemStem cell research from and is not associated with anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety.  Dquenzer is correct; your success is not for everyone.  A quick story for you and others that may be tempted to find the solution in a happy pill.  When I had my firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 episode of arrhythmiaArrhythmias/MAT about 11 years ago at the age of 25, medicine knew much less about these disordersAdjustment disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Asperger syndrome
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd)
Autism
Autoimmune disorders
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bleeding disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Bulimia and far fewer options were available.  Naturally, the firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 time this happened I panicked.  In addition, because my MAT was not constant docs had trouble catching it.  After 3 days as the youngest patientKidney diet - dialysis patients in the cardiacCardiac catheterization
Cardiac tamponade
Left heart ventricular angiography unit of the hospital, and echos and stresses that revealed that I was in excellent condition, I was released and told I had had an anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety attack.  I did not accept this diagnosis and started a quest to find what was really wrong with me.  I saw every find of specialist, except a cardiologist.  Many of them also told me about an anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety disorderAdjustment disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Asperger syndrome
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd)
Autism
Autoimmune disorders
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bleeding disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Bulimia.  This continued to **** me off because the only time I felt anxious was after I started having palpitationsHeart palpitations and chestAcne, cystic on the chest
Adenocarcinoma - chest x-ray
Aortic rupture, chest x-ray
Aspergillosis - chest x-ray
Bronchial cancer - chest x-ray
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Abdominal pain diagnosis
Alternative medicine - pain relief
Ankle pain
Anterior knee pain
Back pain - low
Bone pain or tenderness
Breast pain
Causes of painful intercourse
Chest pain
Chronic pain - resources.  I finally agreed to take XanaxXanax
Xanax xr.  I lost over a year of my life as a zombie on this pill, all the while having palpitationsHeart palpitations that I no longer cared about.  The prescribing MD did not bother to tell that the drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension was highly addictive, so when I quit taking it I went through 3 days of violent withdrawalDelirium tremens.  I actually felt better afterwards and did not have palpitationsHeart palpitations for a long time.  From the time of my firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 episode to the time I quit XanaxXanax
Xanax xr was 3 years of my life.  In was only at the age of 35 (10 YEARS LATER!) that I was finally properly diagnosed.  Those that are desperate to find a solution should very seriously contemplate taking a happy pill.

Thanks for sharing your story.  I was also prescribed a number of "anti-anxiety" meds, including XanaxXanax
Xanax xr, to try and treat my pvcs.  When I finally found a compassionate EP, I shared with her that I was prescribed XanaxXanax
Xanax xr, and that they made it so I did not care about the palps...She said, that's what they do..."YOU won't care!" She also explained the high rate of addictionDrug abuse and dependence, etc. Fortunately, I only took them (daily) for about 2-3 weeks when I realized I NEEDED more, and more often. BIG CLUE for me! Since that time, I have had 2 ablations for my pvcs. Personally, I believe the doctors when they say that pvcs are almost always benignBenign ear cyst or tumor
Benign positional vertigo.  Strangely enough, I was one of the RARE exceptions. I had two ablations last year because my pvcs actually caused a cardiomyopathyCardiomyopathy
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Peripartum cardiomyopathy
Restrictive cardiomyopathy. Don't worry, it is EXTREMELY rare. Had that not happened, I would have been tooling aruond with many thousands every day...Since the ablations, I only have rare pvcs and my ejection fraction is up to 55%. Feeling much better : )

Wishing you the best of luck!  By the way, what is "MAT"?

connie

I would take it MAT means simply(MultifocalMultifocal atrial tachycardia atrialAtrial fibrillation/flutter
Atrial myxoma
Left atrial myxoma
Right atrial myxoma tachycardiaArrhythmias
Multifocal atrial tachycardia
Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (psvt)
Sick sinus syndrome
Ventricular tachycardia).



flip(Lyn)

I would take MAT to mean (MultifocalMultifocal atrial tachycardia AtrialAtrial fibrillation/flutter
Atrial myxoma
Left atrial myxoma
Right atrial myxoma TachycardiaArrhythmias
Multifocal atrial tachycardia
Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (psvt)
Sick sinus syndrome
Ventricular tachycardia)



flip(Lyn)

CCF-MD-RCJ - thank your for your time and advise.  I am in the process of getting a second opinion.



Momto3 - thanks for sharing your story too.  I am glad to to see that you are better and that you did not waste as much time as I on XanaxXanax
Xanax xr.  You know, we too often blindly trust our docs.  What we don't realize is that no doc is trained to say "I don't know".  Instead, some docs frequesntly resort to a default or what ever is "pop medicine" at the time.  In the '90's anxiaty disordersAdjustment disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Asperger syndrome
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd)
Autism
Autoimmune disorders
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bleeding disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Bulimia were the latest craze & XanaxXanax
Xanax xr was the most widely prescribed drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension.  I guess I just got caught up in that "pop medicine" movement

WOOOOHOOOO FOR YOU!!!!!!



What a wonderful thing!!!!!!



It makes me want to call up my doc and say GIVE ME THAT EFFEXOREffexor
Effexor xr!!

(which I WILL be doing!!)



I, for one,  am READY to MASK the syntoms I have had for over 30 yrs... They have gotten much worse in the last few months, and contiue to worsen with each "EVENT". Yet my doc STILL insist that the skipped beats, pvcs,& bigeminy that last for hrs on end is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT>>>>



I am currently on a 30 day _event monitor..... My gosh this thing could drive anyone NUTS. FirstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 you _feel the "event" ... THen you call in the "event" Then you sit and wait while they go over the "EVENT"....Then you here them say, I will have to call your doctor about _THIS EVENT.....THEN.... You sit and wait for the doctor to call you.....Sometimes hrs sometimes the next day..... If THAT wouldnt put someone into an anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety attack I dont know what would.



I am ready to toss this monitor out the window!!!!!!!!!!



I woke up this morning Feeling I had to get to the phone before I was even fully awake....I was reaching for HELP..... I sat up with phone in handHand or foot spasms
Hand tremor calling my husbands cell phone before i knew what i was really doing....... I was thinking "THIS IS IT" and I wasnt even awake good. Was I dreaming?  or was my heartCongenital heart disease
Cor pulmonale
Coronary heart disease
Cyanotic heart disease
Depression and heart disease
Heart attack
Heart attack first aid
Heart attack symptoms
Heart bypass surgery
Heart bypass surgery - series
Heart disease acting up in my sleepCentral sleep apnea
Drowsiness
Insomnia concerns
Irregular sleep
Irregular sleep-wake syndrome
Isolated sleep paralysis
Narcolepsy
Night terror
Obstructive sleep apnea
Polysomnography
Sleep? or was I simply having a panicPanic disorder
Panic disorder with agoraphobia attack over this MONITOR thing???



I don't know which of the above..., but I DO know I am willing to try ANYTHING to feel better.



I realize that for _some anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety does not play a part in their pvcs etc....., but for most of us I believe it is a big part of our problem. Maybe not the REASON for having them entirely, but never the less a factorFactor ix complex in how we deal with them. If a "happy pill" works for what our docs call _BENIGN pvcs & bigimeny, than for ever more BRING IT ON!!!



I mean if they REALLY _are benignBenign ear cyst or tumor
Benign positional vertigo, then why all the FUSS?? The MEDS??? The monitors?? and the APPOINTMENTS to keep track???



If they ARE benignBenign ear cyst or tumor
Benign positional vertigo, then what would a "happy PILL HURT???"



Thanks for your post of HOPE and BIG CONGRATS TO YOU!!!!!!!



Hope

Let me make a comment about EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr and SSRI's in general.  My doctor subscribed that as well.  It actually made them worse!!!

So I wouldn't get too excited about a quick solution to PAC's etc.  Indeed one of the side effects of SSRI's is ANXIETYGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety!!!



I agree that anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety may be a culprit. But when I was in the thro's of large numbers of PAC's I found that bio-feedback actually worked better than most of the drugsChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension.



I would say that if you are really suffering from PAC's etc. and it's real important for you to get rid of them, I would suggest you see and EP.



I had an ablation for AFIB and the doctor took care of one majorMajor tears
Major-con foci for PAC's.  They are nearly eliminated.



That's probably a little radical for something benignBenign ear cyst or tumor
Benign positional vertigo, but if "happy pills" worked for PAC's there would be a huge market and cardiologists would dole them out.

Diquinser...





_IF_ a "happy pill" DID work for one, why think it might not for another? Just because it didn't for you? I am sorry it didnt work for you, but it is certainly worth a try before one goes through ablation for benignBenign ear cyst or tumor
Benign positional vertigo pvcs (imo) ...



I am glad ablation worked for you, and I am glad EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr worked for Adey... I think I will TRY the EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr before TRYING ablation with its extremely invasiveGestational trophoblastic disease
Invasive
Minimally invasive heart surgery
Noninvasive
Noninvasive test
Squamous cell carcinoma - invasive side affects. That is not to say I would never consider ablation, It's just that I woud prefer to try non-invasive thearopy for my benignBenign ear cyst or tumor
Benign positional vertigo pvcs at this time.



THis morning when the nurse called me backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment, I asked her about me seeing an EP... She said the cardio wanted to try different beta blockers firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400.... I am not sure at all I am happy with my cardiologist. I DO want to see an EP doc....just for a second opinion, but you have to be referred..thus I wait in fearFears and phobias, knowing that changing meds might help, but then again they just might WORSEN the pvcs(as did the last time he changed my meds).....



....so I was thrilled to read Adeys post, it did give me hope that maybe EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr or something similar would help me cope with all these pvcs and the related anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety producers they bring with them. Yep they COULD worsen the pvcs, but so can changing beta blockers etc...

But OH... just what IF they worked, what a blessing that would be!!

What works for one just MIGHT work for another.

& That is something definetly worth sharing!



Thanks again Adey cartoonist!

"Happy pills" may not be the appropriate solution for someone with pvcs/pacs.  They will likely inhibit an ability to care, but you will still have the arrythmia.  In some case, SSRI's can be medically beneficial, but is it really worth taking them for benignBenign ear cyst or tumor
Benign positional vertigo pvcs/pacs?



Seriously, I agree with the previous poster who suggested you get together with a good EP. Perhaps biofeedback or yoga would be helpful. It's free and it's healthy too : )

I'd just like everyone to know I have been on more different drugsChemical dependence - resources
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Drug induced hypertension
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Drug-induced hypertension over the past twentyTwenty twenty odd years than I can remember, some with horendous side effects. The only side effect I have had with effexsor is I can't stop shopping! the doc started me on a very low dose just to see if I would tolerate it. oh, come to think of it, it did make me feel a little queasy to start with.

Another thing I've noticed on this site is (like I used to be) you're all full of negativity. as for me being addicted to this pill, I couldn't care less if I have to take it for the rest of my life it's worth it if it makes me feel this good. Another point to quenzer. you can suffer from anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety in your sleepCentral sleep apnea
Drowsiness