Heart Question for Anxiety Folks?

[oceanminded]

I've been dealing with pesky anxiety and panic attacks for a good three years now with every symptom imaginable. About a month ago I started having some irregular heartbeats. This scared the living daylights out of me and sent me to the E.R. and eventually to a cardiologist who determined after a lot of tests that everything was fine and I was experiencing benign PVC's. Well, thankfully its been several weeks now and I haven't had any more of those irregular heartbeats. My question is, is it common for this among anxiety sufferers to get PVC's, and why all of a sudden after 3 years of anxiety did these occur out of no where. Also, I wasn't even at my worst when they happened. My anxiety levels were actually lower than they have been. I've been on the heart rhythm forum to learn everything I can about PVC's but I feel this is more of an anxiety thing for me. Anyone else experience these PVC's from anxiety?

[Ann0023]

I know exactly what you mean. I've wanted to ask the same question. I can't help but  think that this PVC thing is not good for the overall body and the two doctors I've seen about it are unconcerned. I was diagnosed in 1996 sometimes my PVC'S are so bad about 5 or 6 times a minute.Doctor said if I have more than eight a minute to go to the ER...that was comforting...NOT! My PVC'S include extremely heavy chest pounding, blood head rushes, and the pressure both sides of the neck squezzing me like a vise scares. You really do feel like it must be a heart attack. The higher my anxiety the worse it is. I think alot of it also depends on what type of stress you are under. Just keep taking your medication for it. PVC'S and anxiety seem to go hand-in-hand. My stress level has doubled this year. Driving in rush hour traffic (big City), loosing a loved one (Mom this year), finding a new job only to loose it because of the economy, and moving to a new state, financial troubles...need I say more. Try some biofeedback techniques and try (try) to relax.

[lisa983]

YES, it is completly normanl. i am a 29yr old, healthy person. my anxiety came out of no where when i was 19. my heart fluttered all the time. i had every test out there done on me, because i just knew there was something wrong. but every test came out good. i turned into a hypercondract. so i went on medication and it will flutter every now and then. but its fine. i know the feeling though.... you feel like your having a heart attact then that throws u into a anxiety attack. but its normal.. i hope i helped..