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PVCs and sleep interuption

Dan
I have recently been diagnosed with PVCs which tend to vary a lot in frequency from 10 and hour up to 50.  Last night and again today I have been unable to sleep at all.  Just as a drift off, I am jolted back awake.  My breath quickens and I feel a need to swallow.  I suspect PVCs while I'm trying to sleep.  What can I do to get some rest?  Is this a new complication?
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What you experienced may be a "myoclonic jerk".  This is a common experience as someone drifts off to sleep. What happens is the autonomic nervous system (takes care of automatic body functions) has a complete "discharge" that causes all the muscles to jump, often waking the individual up from near-sleep

This is probably nothing to be alarmed about, but to be certain, you may want to check with your personal physician.

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jan
Dan,
I have this problem, also, but it usually only happens one or two times before going to sleep.  However, after long trips (fatigue) and during my sleep study (stress?) it has kept me up most of the night.  I do have an herb that helps me greatly with this and since my EP doesn't mind me taking it, I hope the dr.s on this forum don't mind me mentioning it.  It is called Relax-O-Zyme by EnzymaticTherapy.  I use it during days of stress, too.  I don't take it according to the label, though, because that much would knock me out.
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Hi,

Couple of times so far, while I am about fall a sleep. I felt that my chest and stomach and lower back are mildly vibrating.
The duration varies and sometimes lasts for upto 1 minute or so.
I never felt this sort while I am awake. I checkd my pulse while the vibration was on, pulse was normal. I also check my blood pressure right after that; it was normal, too.

I don't what is causing this. This started happening since I started taking Atenonol 25mg/day for my BP. Is it due to the
medicine. Any suggestions is highly appreciated?

Maddog
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Dear Doctor,

I don't really know where to start.  I am a 24 year old Af.Am female who is experiencing what i think are PVC's.  I started having them in April, but i remember having them occasionaly when I was a child and occasionaly prior to a workout ( I have excercise induced asthma as well and take albuterol, so I often blamed it).  They became more frequent in April and may because I experienced a death in the family and was graduating from college.  I figured they were related to stress because the Dr. did an EKG and bloodwork to confrim any abnormalities, he found none.  I had two ekg's but never experienced any PVC's during them.  I had HIGH anxiety levels because of not knowing what these PVC's were from or if they were life threatening.  I was also having muscle twitches and couldn't really sleep.  My Dr. prescribed a anxiety medicine to me and this helped stop the PVC's.  I only got them when I was excited or stressed.  I recently stopped taking the anxiety medicine.  I guess I must be relly stressed out because I have muscle twitches and my hair has been falling out in clumps ( although it has subsided somewhat).  Just thinking about what could be wrong with me has brought back the palpitations.  And the more I worry the more they come.  I went to see my dr. because of what I was feeling and my symptoms and she did blood work and stuff today.  She also orescribe Zoloft to me today and she thinks this will help.  On my way home, in traffic and worried, I experienced one of these palpitations and I was so damn scared I started to cry.  I don't like these palpitations but my doctor seems to think I am ok.  What do you think?  I have several questions for you, please take the time to fill me in.  I need help, I feel as if I am going crazy and I don't think I can take much more of this.  thanks in advance, Jaden Pace

1 will the zoloft help reduce my anxiety and palpitations?
2 at what point should I worry?
3 why me?
4 do depression, anxiety and palpitations run in families?
5 what other test should i insist my dr. run?
thank you and God bless
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Dan
Thank you for the quick response, I hope that is all it is.  In my case this happened over and over again to the extent that I didn't sleep at all last night nor could I nap this afternoon.  Is this normal?  Will it go away?

Thank You
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You ought to have your thyroid checked!
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I had my thyroid checked in April.  Do you think this could be it?  And I too sometime have this jerks but not in the middle of the night.  They usually happen right before I am totally sleep or really relaxed but I don't feel that sensation in mychest like I usually do when I feel the Palpitation.  I have another question, can you have PVC's with out actually feeling the flutter or big beat sensation?  Is it normal to have PVC's about once a month or even less frequently than that?  Is that a good sign or a bad sign ( the frequency or infrequency of PVC's) thanks again for your response, Jaden Pace
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I have this sleep disturbance too, but an overnight sleep study and holter monitor confirmed that it is from skipped beats. Nadolol seems to generally help. We thought it was myoclonic jerks at first too, but did turn out to be from my arrhythmia disrupting my sleep. I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't much literature on this, but I hear anecdotal reports of this all the time.
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