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24 hr holter monitor help with pvs and pacs

Hello
I just started experiencing pvs and pacs with heart palitations about 6 months ago I finally decided Togo a doctor he done an EKG and it showed 1 skipped beat after giving stomach pills for gerd he gave me a 25mg of zoloft for my nerves , after that he decided to want me to wear a heart moniter and the results came back as this

isolated pvc couplets of bigeminy and ventricular ectopics with 2% of the qrs complex

Isolated pacs couplets and episodes of svt  making up less than 1% of the qrs complex

Average heart rate of 80 heart rate ranged from 41-154

Can someone plz help I am very nervous about this cause I have no idea what it means I goto a heart dr at the end of this month but I need some kind of relief thanks
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995271 tn?1463924259
SSRIs (there is a varieity of them) vary is terms of what helps whom.  If zoloft doesn't work for the anxiety, try a different type.  In the end, like I mentioned above, cognitive behavior therapy will work the best.
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Thank you so much do you think the zoloft will help with this
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995271 tn?1463924259
I'm not reading anything bad on those results.  isolated PVC and ventricular ectopics are the same thing.  Couplets means two PVCs in a row. Bigeminy means that some of them were happening every other beat.  2% of your QRS wave (or heart beats) were PVCs during the measurement period.  Or, about 2,000 PVCs per day.  The fact that they are isolated is good.  PVCs originate in the more muscular part of the heart, called the ventricle.

Same with the PACs basically.  SVT is totally normal.  it steads for supra-ventricular tachycardia.  tachycardia is a heart rate > 100, happens anytime you exercise or walk up a flight of stairs.  

your rate range is perfectly common and normal.  

sounds like you have an anxiety disorder.  I suggest cognitive behavior therapy to get that under control.
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