Heart palpitations

[Lecah]

I would first like to Thank the Doctors and staff for this forum. It is extremely helpful to many! Quick background,I have a defibrillator since the age of 20, I went into Torsades and at the time the Dr.s could not figure out why but I believe it was due to drug interaction of Seldane and Erythromiacin.I have had no problems with my heart since until this year at the age of 34. I suffer from palpitations (benign)and bigeminy seems to be my normal rhythm and PTSD. The anxiety varies from day to day. I notice when I have nightmares,I wake with my heart racing and I will sometimes notice 5-6 beats in a row until I calm down my heart will either go back to bigeminy or a normal heart rhythm. I have been having bad dreams for the past few months every other night it seems and twice a night(and am in therapy by the way), but I want to know will the constant rush of adrenaline from anxiety and the bad dreams cause a problem with the heart rhythm? I had an episode of AV Node rentry in April of this year and got 5 shocks from the defib (ventleads not atrial) and had an ablation a month after to fix the foci where the AV node rentry occured plus other foci to cure palpitations. I read that AV node re entry can occur in normal people at any time and are found in anxious people. My Dr. said the latter is false but for an anxious person it still worries me and I wonder will the 5-6 beats or racing heart in general I get when I am anxious turn into tachycardia or that it is bad on my heart because it is occuring so often. Thank you for your answer and all you do.

[tickertock]

I was on inderal(propranolol is the generic name) off and on  from 83-93, mostly on, when I was off I was off for about 3 and half years after an Ep told me I didn't really need it, coincidentally I happen to see the very same EP again 5 years later and he suggested I take atenolol, which I have found to help greatly, inderal did too, but like anything else your body becomes used to it and you need higher doses.

Inderal is one older and as i understand a very safe beta blocker, it might help you with your symptoms, Like I said I was on it for about a total of 7 years without any problems and at the time it helped alot. Good luck.