Re: Dirty rotten palps

Posted By CHRISTINE on December 08, 1998 at 22:37:14:

In Reply to: Dirty rotten palps posted by Sean on December 08, 1998 at 18:32:30:






Hi,
I've posted several times about my pvc's.  I'm posting again now, because my doctor has prescribed propranolol for me.  He didn't really think I needed it, as he doesn't think that the pvc's are dangerous, he only prescribed it so that they would stop.  Let me also say that I've been to a million emergency rooms in the past year as a result of these pvc's and an anxiety disorder that I would appear to have.  The most recent visit was on Thanksgiving when I got a sudden bout with some violent feeling pvc's.  I went to the ER and the doc did an EKG (ECG) and said that the EKG was fine (of course I didn't have any palps during the EKG recording.  That's only normal.  They hide from the doctors.)  So I begged to have them record again.  They hooked me up to another machine and let me press record when I felt one.  So I finally had one and CAUGHT it.  But then the doctor didn't even look at it!  Neither did my doctor who prescribed  propranolol to me.  I wonder should I go back to the Cardiologist and do a treadmill and a holter and everything, or should I just give him the tape that I recorded?!?  I read up on propranolol and some of the side effects sound like WAY too much for me to deal with including Sudden Death and Heart Block!??1  I want nothing to do with that.  I've been doing heavy exercise and they've slowed down a lot.  Now I only seem to get them when I bend over.  Does that mean anything?
Here's my thought for the day.  The hardest thing about having noticable PVC's (as I've heard EVERYONE has them, just not everyone FEELS them,) is that it doesn't seem to be taken seriously by doctors.  But it sure is scary.  
I guess I don't really have a question, you'll just tell me to go to the doctor AGAIN...  I just wanted a "FORUM" to discuss my "HEART" It would seem I came to the right place.
Thanks for your ear.  Add your thoughts.
Sean.