is it fatal?

[landen01]

At night time while going to sleep and which seems close to rem sleep i am awaken by a feeling as if my heart is not pumping and sometimes i have mild ones,  but some can be bad which feels like it can do me in.  When it happens it is about 2 too 5 seconds. I was told i have PVC about 26,000 in a 24 hour day. I have no problems during the day and can deal with the fact that i have PVC.  It's only while going to sleep is when i have this problem. I have looked up some info online and saw some things about PVC and sudden cardiac death (SCD) during sleep. I have had this problem for years and seems to get worse while trying to sleep as the years go on. I can have as little as 1 a night and up too 15-20. i have had the holter moniter and the Doctor said it was my pvc's,  but would not worry about it,  but when i have a bad one it's hard not too be worried. I have had many nights which i was awaken by one feeling as if i was a goner.

[Soopster]

I feel the same way when I am trying to sleep.  I have never read anything involving the correlations between PVC

[SillyHeart]

PVCs aren't fatal.

[ireneo]

I also have PAC's and PVC's. And I know they're not consistently spaced. But looking at your message you said you have 26,000 in a 24 hour period. That would be about 1083 an hour or about 18 a minute. How is it then that you seem to average only 1 - 20 a night? That means you'd be having them almost constantly during the day. Perhaps the 26K was a typo?

A couple winters ago I went through a 5 month period of having 15-25 a minute for hours on end. It wasn't fun but I'm fine now. As for having a "bad one", I was told the harder thumps are simply caused by the early signal coming at a certain spot in your usual heart cycle P, QRS, T. Can't remember the details but the longer the pause, the more time the ventricles have to fill and then whoosh! you get the big thump.

[landen01]

I was told 26,000 pvc's in a 24 hour period.  It does not bother me at all during my awake hours,  but when i get close to rem sleep i feel it.  It wakes me up. Sometimes up too 15-20 times a night.  Sometimes i have mild ones and some can be very bad. I have never had one hit me during awake hours like i do right before rem including my mild ones.

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

i feel your pain im in my 9 th week of non stop pac dont have many pvc they caught 3000 on montor guess thats not to bad , but they scare you to death and i just want them to flyaway. mine arew flutters not hard thumps guess thats the difference in pac/pvc i had 127 pvc . hang in there we are all hoping one day they will go and never come back. are you taking anything for them since your haveing so many . i started atenolol 25 a day its left me tired and a few others things but pac have gotton better so i going try and stay onit fow a while. my cardio dr told me they not going kill me but when they are 5-6 a min it makes you think. my stress got out of control which made them worse , so trying chill out now. keep head up , sounds like you in same boat with rest of us. hope you have a good nites rest

[landen01]

Irenco you described the feeling i have while beeing hit before rem sleep.  It's a jolt from sleep followed by what feels like a whoosh and a big thump.  I just wonder why this happens only during the time of sleep. Could it be from blood preasure dropping during rem causing pvc too react more? also could the ventricle pumping blood in without blood pumping out in time cause the heart to seize up causing (SCD). This will be my last comment and i thank everyone who responded and will continue reading everybody's thoughts.  -Thank you all.

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

you can comment as many times as you want this is to help you and us so please dont feel like you talking to much we all need it .

[ireneo]

I'm not clear on the connections between the electrical part of the heart and the "plumbing" - vessels, valves and such. Why do you get the big thumps at night? I have no idea just as I have no idea why PVC's and PAC's come in so many varieties: flutters, thumps, pinch, etc. I'm not a cardiologist but they could probably explain how these things happen but not exactly why. There are some specific triggers like stress, caffeine, alcohol, and so on. Perhaps yours are a combination of being quiet and able to feel them more than when active plus some changes that happen as your body slows down, winds down and stress is released. Seems I read a term for that recently, some fancy word I can't remember. Some folks get sudden body jerks or feel like they're falling just as they ease into sleep. It's a complicated business. Maybe try some relaxation techniques before you go to bed - gentle stretching, slow breathing, reading, whatever helps you to unwind. Maybe that will help a little. You need your rest.

[Smitty150]

Ho-Hum

I will ask it again. Yawn.

"Is It Fatal?" is an entirely blank title for a Thread.

Can we try and put something SPECIFIC in the title to save us from
clawing through a heap of stuff to which we have no interest?