Thank you Cindy and itdood for your responses. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. 90% of my pvcs were coming from a location in the right ventricle. I am actually still on the same boatload of meds. that I was on before the ablation. I have learned more from you than I have from either of my doctors. My surgeon talked to me once about 5 hours after the ablation and that was a very brief conversation. I finally see him on Dec. 7, and he will hopefully have more info. Cindy, I would like to get a second opinion from your Dr., do you know if I have to have a referral? I totally relate to your story Cindy, about waking up and wondering if I should call 911. Again, I cannot thank you enough for sharing your stories and your wisdom wth me. Mockingbird (Brooke).
I've never had an ablation but I can relate to tachy episodes when lying down. I get them from time to time. I read a lot of posts with the same concern as-well.
I've never gotten a straight up answer from medical people on why that can happen. I'm left guessing. I think it has something to do with some sort of central nervous system glitch. The central nervous system controls our heart rate via the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve branches. One slows down heart rate, the other speeds it up.
For whatever reason it glitches when lying down and either the signal to slow heart rate isn't getting there, or an inappropriate signal to speed up is being sent.
What I think is happening with lying down is that for some reason the signals to the heart from the CNS are getting messed up for some reason. Could be pressure on nerves, could be tissue inflammation... who knows.
The only other thing I can say about the ablation is that it takes time for them to heal and the final results can't be assessed for up to 6 months from what I hear. I might have more insight if you could let us know where your PVC focus was, what was used to ablate it (RF or cryo), how many burns were made, how did they induce to the PVCs to map them....Best of luck. I'm a firm believer that sadness/depression can hinder your healing. Become positive, whatever it take, become positive. [off my soapbox].