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Heart Arrhythmia ( PVCs ) please Help ! :(

Hello  I'm a 21 year old guy and I've been having heart palpitations ( PVCs more than 12 000 a day ) for the past four months . They have ruined everything in my life and I don't know what to do anymore !! doctors been telling how anxiety, stress  and caffeine and all the other stuff can cause them and it's okay to have them.  you just gotta have to ignore , that is soooo crazy !! because no matter how hard I try I can't ignore them :((  I feel everyone of these extra , skipped beats in my chest and they drive me crazy especially at night when I try to sleep .the head of my bed would start shaking from these extremely forceful beats and I get these fluttering feeling in my chest all the time . cant count the number of times I've been to the hospitals in the last four months !   but they usually send me back home saying it's probably the anxiety attack and my arrhythmia is benign , go home and rest don't think about it ! I mean Seriously  ??  i hate when they say that ! I feel so scared and I don't know where to go .
I didn't even know what the anxiety was ,   I was happy with my life , I used to go to the gym 4 - 5 times a day and I was in a great shape , not drinking or smoking never have , eating extremely healthy diet , why would I get these very frequent PVCs every day  ?  they are not able to tell me why ? there seems to be no reason  , all the tests came back normal , hormones and stuff . if it was from my anxiety can they last for this long  ?  4 months  ? will they ever go away  ? I wanna get my life back that happiness I had in me . please someone help , I don't wanna be scared like a baby but they freak me out . I know my heart isn't suppose to work like this . its not okay !!  how can they benign  ? I also take anti anxiety drugs Xanax 0.25mg at night but it's not helping me at all . please if there's someone out there help me to understand this .please :(
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1464004 tn?1384135733
I'm going to tell you what I told myself to help me get past my fear of PVC. You had all the important cardiac tests. They were all fine. Numerous doctors have told you PVC are harmless in a healthy heart. You need to believe them. If you let yourself live in fear of any kind every single day you will miss the great times you should be having. Especially as such a young person. You can't let this take one more minute of your life that you can never get back. Like the old saying goes, you could walk into the street tomorrow, get hit by a bus and die. Anything can happen to us at any time. You have to enjoy every day as best you can and don't let these things ruin your life. Maybe you should talk to a doc about this heat anxiety. I did and it helped a lot.
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I wish there was more people like you in my life , things would be so much easier , thanks for your comments , now someone told me that it could lead to heart aneurysm , they just like to scare me like that . :((((
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Hi Elli  and Heartflutters Thank you guys for posting , your comments always make me feel better and thanks for much for that !!!
I wish that doc had never said that to me , he scared me  , I actually  didn't know anything about blood clots and stroke before , always been told that PVCs won't hurt me , I dont want to think about heaving a stroke ,  I'm feeling tense all the time , I can't  seem to get these things out of my head ,  i hve had some pain and discomfort the last two days , it comes and goes , i dont know if its my heart / good news is that there was no PVCs on my ECG last night , this is the first time seeing no PVCs on ECG/
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1464004 tn?1384135733
I second what Heartflutters said. I've had them for like thirty years and no one has ever said that too me, plus I've worked for a cardiologist for years. Never heard such a thing.
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212161 tn?1599427282
No pvcs do nt caus blood clots

Afib can throw a cloth, if your not on meds for thinning the blood but not sure how common that is

So don't even worry about what that dr Sid ve do acs for 30 years same s pvcs and know lots on here that have pcs and they never got blood clots from them
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Sam thank you , I hope we all get rid of these scary beats soon .
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