PSVT PAC PVC's

[JRChine]

Hi Everyone,

I too am suffering from PSVT, PAC's and PVC's... the PVC's are driving me nuts! I am still waiting on my appointment with the cardiologist. I have been successfully converted with Adenosine for SVT, however I have no idea how to controll these PVC's. They have been occuring in the last 6 months and my life has become very diffcult since- as soon as I think I'm in the clear... bang they start happening again. I am beginning to avoid going out in public in fear of another attach. I haven't had no "runs" of Pvcs as of yet... I think.  Some days I am really lightheaded and can sleep all day. I feel like my pulse is always out of wack.. it is really fast when I climb stairs or even walk a short distance. I have bought of Sinus tach with PVC"s.... this is horrible- I wouldn't wish this on anyone! I struggle to get through my days at work and am thinking about leaving my job which I have worked so hard to get! I'm 28 F otherwise healthy or so I thought! My ECHO showed a possible small VSD other than that everything was normal. I am willing to try anything to feel normal again. I have had SVT for years and it does not cause me near as much greif as the PVC"S. I am really worried that my heart is going to go into some deadly rythum and I'm going to have permit damage if not die!

[tia77]

Hi I have the pvc's and pac's HATE THEM!!!! Still to this day i can't stand them but I have to say I can accept them more that I now take a beta blocker to lessen them.  I Really didn't want to go that route but I was so misrable I couldn't help myself.  I only take 12.5 a day and if they get really back I will take 12.5 in the morning and another 12.5 in the evening.  They said if they still are bad I could even take a little more but I don't.  It seems to make them manageble for me.  Belive me I am not someone that likes to take medicne but It sure has made a diffrence in my life.  I don't know what the treatment is for psvt but you could ask your cardiologist if this might help.  I have to say it really slowed my heart rate and blood pressure in the begining but they were not concerned with how low it was.  It did eventually even itself out.  Good Luck

[Wisconsin2007]

JRChine -

I know it's hard to do, because I couldn't do it when people said it to me, but try not to worry too much.  It's funny - the thing that I notice about people that have been suffering from one kind of arrhythmia or another for a long time is, whatever the new symptom is, that's the scarier one.  I've had PVCs for just over a decade, and those really don't scare me anymore.  But they used to.  And then I got used to it.  But then in December or so of 2008 I started having these weird rhythms that I knew were not PVCs, and they scared the bejeezus out of me.  I ended up getting them diagnosed as short bursts of PSVT - and while it doesn't scare me anywhere near as much as it used to, it still scares me more than my PVCs do.  But I know other people just like you, that have had PSVT for years and it doesn't scare them in the least, but give them a day of PVCs and they're ready to climb the walls.

So take it from someone that gets more scared from the thing you're not afraid of, and is not afraid of the thing you ARE afraid of...You know the thing you're afraid of?  Not going to kill you.  Your PSVT that doesn't frighten you is orders of magnitude more serious than some PVCs.  If you've had a holter or event monitor and the echo and have been told you are fine, take the doctors word for it.  :)