pvc's pac's afib? please help

[horseluver4]

Here is my story! i am turning 35y/o in 2 months and have been living with several different types of heart rythms since i was 19y/o. I have been to 2 different hospitals cardiologist specialist, had 2 ablations and seems my heart is worse than ever. :( first ablation i had was about 10 years ago then last one was about 7 years ago. I currently take 25mg of atenolol 3x daily. reason is if i take to much at once i get light headed and if i space it all out it seems to work more evenly. my resting bp stays very low sometimes 85/45 although i usually still feel fine. Anyway i do not excerise because im afraid of it going into afib, so no exersion for me, i do not smoke, drink caffeine, or no alcohol & havent for years. i have been under cardiologist care ever since i was 19y/o. I have been diagnosed with pvc's, pac's, afib, rvot. i have sooo many of the pac and pvc daily and if i do anything to much stress or cardio my heart is super sensative and i get them back to back. i have tried flecinide before and didnt work so stopped that. I have 4 kids ages 18years and youngest is 1. my life is full of stress and always a busy schedule,4 kids, 4 horses, 20 chickens, 2 dogs, uhggg my question is??? should i have another ablation? my symptoms are always present again worse, pvc's and pac's are like evey 3-4 beats a skipped beat then sometimes muliple in a row like 10-15 FASTTTT quick beats where i get light headed just for a few min. then goes away? is this dangrous? please help or is 3 ablations to hard on the heart? last ablation dr said the spot was to close to the hearts natural pace maker? im scared and these rythms are and have been running my life :-( also echo showed healthy heart just electrical system is messed up. im having another monitor put on this week too. HATTEEEE THISSSS

[dolphin8808]

It is so hard to deal with the skips. The anxiety and fear they cause is huge....  I guess that is why some docs treat the anxiety and not the skips.

[horseluver4]

thanks for responding :) i had a few good days with NO skipped beats or flutters then back at it again. uhgg its so frustrating. am having about 20,000 skipped in a 24 hour peroiod! seems non stop and its soooo annoying. when i went in last week for the monitor they hooked me up with this newer one  that i wear for 3 weeks but also carry a cell phone that they provided too and after the monitor records every 10 minutes by it self then it transmitts to the blue tooth cell phone then it sends the recording through text to the heart company and a specialist looks over it then if its something very dangerous they will call me on that cell phone and tell me to call 911 or go to nearest emergency room. or if i feel something i can also push the button and it will record for 1 min back from when i pushed it and 1 min after. soooo pretty high tech i would say. but since i been wearing it now about 4 days i havent had a call so must be just those stupid annoying pvs and pas. i have a doc app tomorrow at 10:30 with my cardiologist so ill see what he says. my blood has been normal but my heart rate has been around 60. and 20 of them being skipped or early beats..i just want this to go away as im sure you do too. yesterday was a more than perfect day. i didnt feel literally 1 missed beat. i felt perfect alll day. not today. back to this nighmare!
anyway im sorry about your afib thats the scarriest feeling i have ever felt. i had a huge eppisode about 3 years ago and i must say it was beating about 200 and medics wanted to cardio vert me but i refused. i was to scared of being shocked and still havent had it done or dont want to. i waited it out and it took about 8 hours of pure hell. so how often is yours and what do they do for it? do you feel other things your heart does?

[Jerry_NJ]

Yes, it sounds like you have a very busy life, good thing you are still young and too bad your heart started giving you problems so early in life.  My AFib started, or was diagnosed when I was in my late 50s, guess I was lucky, but don't feel that way.

You have more experience than most on your question about ablations, and you have professional advice.  I think the question you have to answer is:  are the potential benefits (will be less than 100% sure) worth the potential risks (hoped to be very low, but will not be zero).  My doctors will not ablate for my AFib for several reasons but the main reason is they do not think they can stop my AFib with an ablation - I understand the AFib ablation is the most difficult and therefore the highest risk - not to discount the risk of having to ablate close to the sinus node (I think that's the heart timing central - my memory isn't great either).  

The main reason I write is to wish you the best decision and to ask if you are taking something to reduce clot formation from the AFib, I'd think you would at least be on an aspirin a day.  If not, I think you should ask you doctor(s) why not.