Does anyone think it's possible to provoke PACs just by thinking aobut them? Because I'm starting to think that it is! I have always hated when someone dismisses a physical problem by saying it's caused by anxiety, or it's psychosomatic, or whatever, but I'm truly starting to believe that sometimes I bring the PACs on myself!! Has anyone else ever felt that way??
I get brief runs (2-20 seconds) of either atrial tachycardia or a run of PACs. PACS have been caught on a monitor, along with "a three beat run of atrial tachycardia" which many say is just another name for a run of PACs. I get these about once every five days or so. All of this is occurring after an ablation for AVNRT,which I had about 13 weeks ago. So I'm really agitated about still having tachycardia anyway.
But it seems like when I get them, they come just as I have been thinking/worrying about them, or hoping I don't get them. For example, I went out of town for just two days but was concerned about getting an "episode" while I was gone. Well guess what....the only two days I had them that week were the two days I was out of town. Then the other night I was at a major league baseball game and was concerned that a bad episode might start and I was high up in the upper deck and was worried about how I would get out of there if there was a problem. I pretty much thought about it for the whole first 7 innings, then had a episode in the 8th inning, when I hadn't had anything for over a week. And it was the worst episode I have had.....meaning it seemed to race faster and lasted about 20 seconds when they usually last 5-10. But the whole time my heart was racing, I could feel myself starting to get very scared, like here it is, and what if it doesn't stop....I could feel myself getting that hot, nervous feeling if you know what i mean. And I'm guessing maybe that's why the episode was worse than usual.
Any thoughts on this?? Do you think it's possible that I am provoking these attacks?? Not that there isn't a real physical component to it, cause obviously not everyone gets a racing heart just by thinking about it, but I still have to wonder.......
I'm curious to hear if anyone else has experienced this.....