Hi all. This is my very first time here. I suffer with PVC's. I get them alot. Sometimes 3 in a row. I have had an echo on my heart and they said it is normal and healthy. I know very little about PVC's and why people get them. I hate them.. I can feel everyone one and it sends me into a Panic. I get them atleast every 15 minutes. Usually one but sometimes more. Does anyone else get them that frequently? Or can anyone else feel them really strong like me. It feels like my heart stops and then kick starts again. I am scared that I am going to have a heart attack or something. I was reading about the ablation. What is that? I would love to hear from anyone who is going throught the same thing as me. You can also email me at ***@****
What a great group of people here--pts. and Doc alike.
Hope the sniping at multiple posters ceases. If you are persistent and try at the right times (between 8a-10a EST) you will get through eventually. If you have an emergency, you should be calling your own doc, anyway. This forum is for information, and we can all glean something from almost every post, no matter what the topic.
I am very confused about this whole notion of PVCs. I have always understood and MDs have confirmed that PVCs in the absence of ischemia, cardiomyopathy etc. or symptoms are harmless. I have had many PVCs for many years and have learned to ignore them. When my cardiologist listens to my heart, he always asks me if I can feel them because they are so prominent. I can feel them but I refuse to give them much consideration. It is amazing to me that anyone would consider an ablation for something that is fairly benign. I really don't think I am such a tough person. It is just a fact of my life.
This is a great quote, partially because it helps demonstrate a point about how statistics can be misleading.
The quote that you provided is:
" In fact more cases of sudden death occur in people who do not have frequent PVCs".
Similar, and also true points, are the following:
"more people who do not drive drunk die in car accidents than the drunks"
or
"more people who are healthy die of sudden cardiac death".
These statements both sound shocking, but the reason is pure strength of numbers.
There are just so many more non-DUI drivers that they die more frequently in car accidents on an absolute basis. If there are 100 million drivers in the US, and only 100,000 DUI drivers, then even if the drunks are 10 times more likely to die in a car, there still will be many fewer drunks dying in accidents.
Make sense?
Yes, all of my post ablation symptoms are now gone. Ya!! I now am only left with a few pac's, or pvc's daily which are of very little concern to me. I still can hear my heartbeat but was told by the ENT man that my hearing is just more accute then usual. You are certainly very well informed and know your stuff Hank. Keep up the good posting. You are of as much help as the docs on this site and I for one salute you!!
Great question!! I just wanted to comment that during an EP study I had done 5 years ago I went into VF - a totally unique experience I must say. Because I was sedated during the procedure I was not in any pain but I certainly felt the defibrillator go off. The EP doc said this happened because he really gave my heart a good work-out and he said it responded just fine, he was trying to make it go into V-tach. He said he paced it really really high and that's when I fibrillated but he was not worried at all. My GP freaked out though when he read the report.