I just clocked in with 25,000+ PVC's in 24 hours. That's a hell of a lot of Premature s. I run about 5 miles a day and they don't bother me at all. I'm just glad they are not the other "premature"!
I agree with Upbeat....one PVC can drive you crazy. However, once you learn to accept them (it may take awhile), it's much easier to get through the PVC "storms." I was also against taking medications until I figured it would be worth a try. You might want to check with your doctor about taking a beta blocker "as needed." Sometimes that's enough - just tackling "those" times when you've had it.
I took medication on and off for years. For years, I took it every day, but eventually I could take it as needed. I really preferred taking it that way.
Hope you enjoy a nice weekend!
Hi - I have had thousands day. There have been people mentioned on this forum who have 35 thousand a day. It is not the number but the nature of them which matters as far as I understand it. Your heart beats 100,000 times a day so 4% pvc's is not that many.
Meds are often given as much to relieve the anxiety and the upsetting physical symptoms as they are to stop the number of pvc's - because they are not actually harming you in most cases.
I would discuss it with your doctor - the first step is often a mild beta-blocker. My missed beats have got better over time. Nothing in particular has made a big difference, but I would try to cut out caffeine in all forms, exercise, eat lightly, get enough sleep. Try to work on the anxiety too because that is going to cause you more harm and distress than the pvc's will. This is an answer from a cardiologist to someone enquiring about thousands of pvc's a day:
"They're normal in the senses that about half of us have them, that they're easy to understand as normal cardiac events from knowledge of how the heart's electrical system is built, and that they don't mean you have heart disease or lead in the future to heart disease or any catastrophe."
If your heart is structurally sound, pvc's are harmless, though the symptoms and anxiety they cause can be very distressing. Best wishes.
Last holter I averaged 1259/hour, highest recorded 15 hundred something, per hour. I don't remember reading a low/hr rate.
So thats about 30,000pvcs per day. It's not usually that high, it's usually lower, in the low 20 thousand. hee hee
I like to think that one pvc would drive me crazy. So then it's just a matter of thinking multiple thousands are no different than one. They are annoying, frightening sometimes, anxiety producing, and generally take my mind off of more favourable thoughts. So I put a lot of effort into focusing on something other than the pvcs.
Really, on days where I have a very few (those are seldom but do happen), the pvcs are much much more noticeable. It's very strange. You really do become used to them over time.
I hate medications, I am a bad pill taker. I resisted taking medications for pvcs until one year ago when the pvc frequency sky-rocketed. I have tried three beta-blockers since to no avail. Not a change to the pvcs and more symptom side effects of a drug intended for lowering blood pressure.
HOWEVER, I am now taking sectral (acebutolol), again being a bad pill taker I've divided the capsule in half to 100mg and it seems to have stopped all the multiples and strings of pvcs, so that's a big improvement. I think I've even had, a couple of times, 10 or more minutes without a single pvc, that's major for me.