Fluttering heart

[SoSweetDell]

I have been having these fluttering sensations; right where my heart is; under the left breast.  I have had them off and on for sometime now, and it is worrying me to death.  I had a holter monitor on; the doctor said they were PVC's, and everyone has them.  They may, but I have been having them like everyday now; sometimes 6 or 7 times a day.  No shortness of breath or anything, just the weird sensation.  Any ideas??

[iamfaithful]

Oh, and I meant to ask, how can people not be sensitive enough not to feel them???  To a person who feels every single one, it's hard for me to understand that.  My doctor told me the same thing, he says "eveyone has them, you just feel them!"

[iamfaithful]

I have to ask how in the WORLD do you do it?  I started down this awful PVC/PAC road in May.  I have worn two event recorders, had one nuclear stress test, one echo, numerous x-rays, one CAT scan and I don't want to tell you how many times I have been to the ER-too embarrasing.  I am so sick and tired of these things.  My doctor couldn't find anything on the echo or anything significant on the event recorder.  He did see on my first recorder that I had from another Dr. office that I was having lots of PVC'S AND PAC'S so he put me on Toporol .25 daily.  Well, they finally got better around late August, but then I ended up back in the ER in September.  I have noticed that everytime I go to the ER (even the first time in May) is a few days or right after my monthly cycle.  I have had my hormone levels checked as we thought maybe I was going thru the change.  I am at my WITS END.  I have a couple of good weeks and then BAM, they are back.  I had a really rough weekend and almost went to the ER yesterday because they were happening quite frequently.  And that's exactly what it feels like for me-a dropped sensation-those are the bad ones.  The flutters are no fun, but I can deal with those, it's the somersault feeling that takes your breath away.....UGH.  I feel like everytime it happens will be IT-you know what I mean.  Please tell me how am I supposed to deal with this-yikes??  Everyone keeps saying they are benign, but they surely don't feel like it.  My cardioligist and his entire staff think I am just stressed......UH, HECK YEA I am stressed.  These darn PVC'S will make anyone stressed!!!

[deedle1976]

The second sentence of my last post should read
"In studies where they've put holter monitors on a sample of the population..."

[deedle1976]

Hi there,
6 or 7 pvcs per day is very few and probably less than your average person youd pass on the street. In studies where they've put holters on a sample of the 21% had more than 24 PVCs per day, 6% had more that 50 pvcs, 5% had more than 300, 4% had more than 500 and almost 3% had more than 1000 PVCs per day.
A recent study of 625 people  8.8% had couplets (2 PVCs in a row) during 24 hours. So be reassured that you are surrounded by people every day who have more PVCs than you, it's just that they are not sensitive enough to feel them.
I know they feel horrible though.
I have had 1786 recorded and feel every single one of them as a horrible flip flop in throat and dropping sensation in chest. I literally didn't go longer then 2 minutes without PVCs for 6 months..like torture.

[Momto3]

Try not to worry about the flutters.  The anxiety over them is far more debilitating than the pvcs themselves.  As long as your doctor has determined that they are benign, you usually just have to figure out how to accept them.  That's the hard part. But, you can do it....we're here to help ; )

Try not to let the pvcs dictate your life.  Enjoy the day!  

connie

[googlybear]

hi buys, im a twenty year old female and for the past few years ive been having fainting episodes during basketball matches.  It has only happened in matches and not training which suggests to me perhaps adrenaline has a part to play or maybe im over exerting myself. I train a few times a week and also do horse riding so im fit enough.  What generally happens is, I get a fluttering or vibration feeling in my mid chest, get dizzy and black out, this generally doesn’t happen mid sprint but just after I stop running, I can then feel the fluttering converting back into a beat a minute or two later. Ive been to the hospital about it, had ECGs, EEG, 24 hr holt, Echo, two stress tests, MRI, tilt table, all inconclusive, and I now have a loop recorder in my left shoulder for the past two months.  I tried to bring on an episode while running but was unsuccessful but I started back at basketball this year and it happened again last week during out first match.  Its not stress related as I love the game, wasn’t nervous and also it was the end of the match and we were way up with points so there wasn’t much pressure on but I felt the flutter again, had to be subbed off and sit down.  I activated the recorder so hopefully now we can find out what the cause is but my next consultation isn’t until January.  Does anyone have any idea what this could be and should I continue playing basketball in the meantime?  During the vibration feeling I tried to feel my pulse and felt nothing but didn’t totally black out, just was dizzy so maybe it was just a weak one…