flutterings from the stomach.....

[Linda123]

Hello
An EP study showed I had scar tissue in the right atrium and my cardiologist said he was amazed at how, during the EP study, the slightest thing set off the a-tachy, it even occurred when they were stimulating the ventricles.  It's funny because in the normal way of things I very rarely get a-tachy, it's always the extra beats and flutterings I get and I'm sure, short lasting bouts of a-fib.
I haven't had much in the way of palpitations for a few months however I was awoken from a deep sleep the other morning in the early hours with lots of what I believe were pacs (pvcs feel lower down and stronger).  I actually had a little indigestion and I feel this probably triggered off the palps.  Now, of course, I am in a pattern and getting the flutterings several times every day.  Of course I hate them.  When I get these flutterings I feel them in my stomach as well as in my chest and I wonder what, if anything, this indicates?  It's as if I have an electric cable from my stomach up to my chest that has lit up.
Lots of tests have shown that my heart is structurally normal.
I have been considering ablation but having read the experiences of others on the forum, such as Lynn, I have decided to hang on for a while.  It seems to me that in cases like mine where it is not the classic accessory pathway problem, ablation is not that successful.
Talking of accessory pathways incidentally, my cardiologist thinks that I may have had an accessory pathway that has now gone on to be something else as in my teenage years.  Do you know of cases like this.
Thank you.
Best wishes.

[Linda123]

Sorry - went wrong on the last couple of sentences of my question.  I meant to say that in my teenage years I had the classic accessory pathway experiences - click, rapid beat, click back to normal.  Haven't experienced that now for 20 years.

[CCF-M.D.-RCJ]

Linda123,

Thanks for the post.

Q1:"When I get these flutterings I feel them in my stomach as well as in my chest and I wonder what, if anything, this indicates?"

Each person experiences extra beats in different ways (if you don't believe me see the post from January regarding each persons' description of their PVCs).  So for you, this particular sensation may indicate PACs arising in the middle of your atrium (as an example), but another person would have an entirely different manifestation.

Q2:"It seems to me that in cases like mine where it is not the classic accessory pathway problem, ablation is not that successful."

Persons with multiple sources of arrhythmias often need multiple ablation procedures.  Atach that is readily inducible at the time of EP study should be ablatable in most cases.

Q3:"Talking of accessory pathways incidentally, my cardiologist thinks that I may have had an accessory pathway that has now gone on to be something else as in my teenage years. Do you know of cases like this."

No, I'm not sure what the doc means.  Some people have accessory pathways that become less "conductive" of impulses with age, and thus the person experiences less arrhythmic events.  Alternatively, some pathways become more likely to conduct with age, and then the person experiences their first episode as an adult.

Best of luck.