Possible PVCs?

[kipper2012]

I am a healthy 23 year old, who ocassionally experiences isolated PVCs. I'm guessing that's what they are, I haven't been to the doctors. It's the sensation of a small thump, a pause, then a larger thump then heartbeat returns to normal. I have no other symptoms with this at all. I usually happens a few times a week but today I have had 5 in the past 2 hours and it's scaring me. Lately I have been recovering from sleep debt from a month of not sleeping well in december. Could it be linked to that?

[kipper2012]

I find it hard to distinguish between PVCs and twitches/spasms of the chest muscles too. I freak out whenever I feel one but sometimes I wonder if it's just a muscle jumping. It can feel deep in the centre of my chest rather than to the left side. When I feel a PVC I can feel the pause then thump but sometimes I just felt a horrible thump or thump thump in the centre of my chest that I wonder if it's just a muscle jumping.

[kipper2012]

thanks michellpetkus. The most I've ever had is about 5. I usually get them alot less frequently. 1 a day is usually alot for me. I am a nautral worrier though and every time I have I get anxious about it.

[MichelleP_3811]

The flare up point for everyone is different.  I have had pvcs from both sides of the heart and pacs from the upper chambers.  Some of them are really noticable others are not.  There really is no rhymn or reason to them.  But for me I mostly feel the pause not the extra beat.  Once in a while I will feel the strong beat afterwards but most of the time it just feels like my heart fizzles out for a second as the pause happens.  5 in the past 2 hours is not a lot.  Some people have 10,000 or more a day.  I had about a week or so in October like that and it was crazy bad but now I get probably 10 to 100 a day my stomach and stress being the biggest triggers for me.  But I think it really can be anything that disrupts a steady beat, like lack of sleep, can bring them on.  Once you have them you will likely get them again.  If they become very freqeunt then definitely alert your doctor and go see a cardiologist.  If you are short of breath, dizzy or feel chest pain then definitely go regardless of how few ectopics you are having but if you feel good otherwise you should have nothing to worry about.  And be clear that stressing about them will make them worse.  Take care and keep us posted on how you are doing.

[kipper2012]

Another question is...do you always feel them in the left side of your chest, where your heart is, or can you feel them like, just a general sense of it in your chest or in the centre of your chest?

[kipper2012]

What do PVCs feel like to you? Do you always feel the skip and then the thump or are there times when you just feel a thump without the skip?

[itdood]

There's no way to tell if it's linked.  I've been around PVCs to a much worse extent.  Over the years I've experienced extremes of them coming and going.  I've been trying to figure out what might be the "trigger" but there I've never been able to narrow it down definitively.

Do your best to stay healthy.