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Is there any chance ablation can fix positional PVCs

Hello, I get PVCs when I slouch or sit, or move in a certain way. It's hard to replicate because I'm so scared to move or sit in a certain way to trigger it. I am severely disabled yet they all tell me I shouldn't be, and that it's malpractice to put me on anything like Rhythmol or other strong heart drugs. However they're fine with ablations. Is ablation a possible solution to help positional PVCs? Have any of you had positional PVCs that happen only when you've got a certain kind of pressure feeling in your throat from the way you're moving around or moving your arms, with skipping and then the heart goes fast all of a sudden? And have you had an ablation that helped you at all from positional PVCs?
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1147530 tn?1314821596
Can you re-explain your interpretation of positional pvc's, please?  Thanks.
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Yes I feel the same way. But the frequency is the same and is getting worse over time. I never get a break.
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1147530 tn?1314821596
Curious myself as to what causes positional pvc since I go through periods of days where I get them with every shift of my body.  I sit, half a minute later, I palpitate.  I reach up in the cupboards, I get flutters and pvc. I shift position on the couch, I pvc. I read and bed, then lie down on the right to go to sleep only to get smacked by tons of them.
The problem is that this occurs when my heart is irritable and at the same time also reacts to other things more swiftly.  Like eating. Or making a little bit of extra effort.  These episodes for me come and go.  Suddenly it stops and although I may continue to get pvc's regularly, the positional pvc's stop.  I can sit, change positions, lie down and nothing happens.  Then maybe weeks later, it starts again.
If it's related to the vagus nerve, why doesn't it always respond in the same manner when it gets stimulated.  Why days on end the same things happen, then suddenly it stops reacting that way to the same stimulant that cause it to react only a day prior?
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