Daily PVCs!

[tperk]

First, let me say that this site has been great for peace of mind lately! I am 33, healthy, and have 2 boys. I started having PVCs a little over a year and a half ago. I had a holter and event monitor (benign-unifocal pvcs) and a normal echo at the time. They have come and gone randomly since then until 2 months ago. I have now been having them EVERY day, and it is very frustrating!!!! I can not put a trigger on them at all. I may have a few a day, or up to 8 or 9 per min. I will have a good day and be encouraged, only to wake up with the skipping again. My Dr. put me on Toprol XL we started at 12.5 and I am now up to 50mg daily. I have not seen much difference with the med, so I think I am fixing to taper back off of that. For those of you with success on the BB what was the time frame that you saw a difference?? I am also questioning a relation to Birth Control Pills - has anyone experienced this?? I had started a new pill when they started to happen so bad daily. I went back to my original pill and have been back on it 6 wks or so, but no help there either! I have an apt. with another cardiologist in a few weeks, so I hope to get some answers then. You try hard to not think about them, but it is impossible when you feel the "thud" in your throat so often! It is crazy when a minute without them seems to be a blessing :) !
Thanks a-lot!

[anacyde]

These have no rhyme or reason for most of us.  It can be incredibly frustrating!!!

The pills may be the culprit for your increase, since the timing coincided.  Just because you switched back doesn't mean your body has gone back to normal yet, and it may take a few months for that to happen.  My son is a year old now, and I am just now beginning to see a decrease in my hormonally induced palpitation symptoms.

Try keeping a palpitation journal.  Write down what is going on during bad days - and good days.  It took me about three months to see the pattern.

Good luck on getting it figured out.  Try to relax in the mean time.

[tperk]

Most of my palpitations I do just feel in my throat (bottom Left side of my neck. Very rarely I may get a little flutter feeling in my chest, but usually only if I have several close together.

[francie12]

I could never understand why people find PVCs bothersome UNTIL recently, when it seems like they are occurring all day (and night), every day.  I don't find them frightening, just distracting and kind of tiring.  And the holtor monitor a couple of years ago said 2,000 on a day when it only felt like 8-10.  Maybe I'm just starting to feel more of them...  Also occasionally getting a feeling of racing heartrate for a few seconds.  I reported it to to doctor at last checkup and she confirmed that it was normal.  Could anyone say what the racing is, how it happens?  Just curious...

[Carrie41]

Do you feel them only in your throat or heart as well?  I feel it in my heart and the left had side of my neck.  It kinda goes bump-bump-pause-bump-pause-bump.  It makes me crazy!  My sister says she can feel them in her throat but I never feel them there.  Just curious to see if you feel it in your heart as well?