Normal Holter Results ?

[anjolive]

After about a week of waitng for my 24 hour holter the NP tells me everything is normal. Normal I ask ?  How could that be ? All the crazy fluttering I felt and still do feel. My history of occasional PVC & PAC are not to blame hear ?  Where is my Cardiologist ?  Why is the NP calling me I asked her...I asked for the details of the report and she told me this....Over 24 hours holter picked up 300 pvc and pac's....2 were biegnimy, 72 were triegnimy (spelled wrong i know) and the rest single's....

THIS SOUND NORMAL TO YOU ???? IT DOESNT SOUND GOOD TO ME....She told me she will ask the doctor to call me tommorow because she thinks I need reassurance that I'll be ok even thoughI told her that the last few episodes of these runs lately have taken my breath away....

Any opinions would be gratefull....

Andrew

[deedle1976]

Hi Andrew,
It sounds within the boundaries of normal to me. All isolated PVCs and I know 300 per day feels dreadful but it would probably be classed as occasional ectopics. I had 520ish on one of mine and it the report said 'very occasional isolated PVCs, essentially normal'.

[deedle1976]

Just to add, studies have been done in which about 5% of the general population had more than 300 PVCs in 24 hours. If you combine PVCs and PACs the number is probably significantly higher.

[ireneo]

I avoid the word "normal" because I'm not sure there is such a thing. I know we'd all like to have "perfect" hearts that never act weird but it just isn't reality. I'd say that people having some ectopics is considered typical, not unusual, average, what other words can we think up? I do hope your doctor will be able to explain it in such a way that you'll feel better about your heart.