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Palpitations
I suffer sensely with my obsessing about my palpitations. My question is:
1. If you were to take 100 people off the street and put holter monitors on them how many of them would have PVC's and PAC's? Why do I feel every little thing my heart does and others can't feel a darn thing?
2. I had a holter last week and I got no palpitations but I did get palpitations three days later. I think the doctors think I am nuts worring about these things because they didn't see anything on the holter. I haven't been back to the doctor for my results but I am sure it will show nothing.
3. Doc says that if I had a serious arrythmia that is would not be coming and going as mine does. She says a serious arrythmia is there all the time?
3. I have been for two EP studies (one in 1996 and one in 2000) because they caught something on the Holter (hospital said it was v-tach and the EP doc says it was probably just salvos). Would they have seen anything while they were doing the EP study if there was something wrong??
4. I think about my heart 24/7 and feel sort of high anxiety state waiting for the next palpitation to hit. It is all I think about. It is a vicious cycle, I get a palpitation and get really stressed and get really stressed thinking I am going to get another one. Doc says I have anticipatory anxiety.
I know the doctor is sick of seeing me about the same thing. What should a person do?? She already told me there is nothing wrong with my heart and every get palpitations but I can't accept that answer especially after getting the v-tach results years ago (1996).
1. If you were to take 100 people off the street and put holter monitors on them how many of them would have PVC's and PAC's? Why do I feel every little thing my heart does and others can't feel a darn thing?
2. I had a holter last week and I got no palpitations but I did get palpitations three days later. I think the doctors think I am nuts worring about these things because they didn't see anything on the holter. I haven't been back to the doctor for my results but I am sure it will show nothing.
3. Doc says that if I had a serious arrythmia that is would not be coming and going as mine does. She says a serious arrythmia is there all the time?
3. I have been for two EP studies (one in 1996 and one in 2000) because they caught something on the Holter (hospital said it was v-tach and the EP doc says it was probably just salvos). Would they have seen anything while they were doing the EP study if there was something wrong??
4. I think about my heart 24/7 and feel sort of high anxiety state waiting for the next palpitation to hit. It is all I think about. It is a vicious cycle, I get a palpitation and get really stressed and get really stressed thinking I am going to get another one. Doc says I have anticipatory anxiety.
I know the doctor is sick of seeing me about the same thing. What should a person do?? She already told me there is nothing wrong with my heart and every get palpitations but I can't accept that answer especially after getting the v-tach results years ago (1996).
So what is the difference between PVC's and palpitations? I was under the impression they were the same thing? Whatever the #*(&*($# they are I hate them! I get a feeling of a double of triple beat and then nothing and then a huge thump. I also get runs of rapid beats sometimes and then sometimes I will get misfires every third beat or so. I just cannot come to grips there is nothing wrong.
Counting them yourself seems like a very bad idea psychologically. Especially since it's diagnostically meaningless.
A palpitation is anytime you notice your heartbeat, racing, pounding or pausing. It is not always an arrhythmia and even if it is, it's likely a benign one.
Yes, it's true people get ectopic beats and don't feel them. My son got over a thousand PVC/PACs on his Holter and never feels anything out of the ordinary. He got the Holter because a routine exam had a murmur and ectopics. The docs (regular and cardio et al) can hear them the minute they put a stethoscope to his chest, but he doesn't feel them.
Watching them like a hawk is probably part of why you feel them.
You are fixated and trying really hard. Like a person having a hearing test listening for every isolated beep, instead of to the cacophony of real life sound that drowns out, or blends in those little tones.
If you have a rhythm of concern on your Holter they will let you know.
It can't hurt to see someone for anxiety/obsessiveness. Cardiologists don't generally handle inappropriate "high anxiety" very well, it's not their specialty. If you had something the cardiologist could help you with, she would.
A palpitation is anytime you notice your heartbeat, racing, pounding or pausing. It is not always an arrhythmia and even if it is, it's likely a benign one.
Yes, it's true people get ectopic beats and don't feel them. My son got over a thousand PVC/PACs on his Holter and never feels anything out of the ordinary. He got the Holter because a routine exam had a murmur and ectopics. The docs (regular and cardio et al) can hear them the minute they put a stethoscope to his chest, but he doesn't feel them.
Watching them like a hawk is probably part of why you feel them.
You are fixated and trying really hard. Like a person having a hearing test listening for every isolated beep, instead of to the cacophony of real life sound that drowns out, or blends in those little tones.
If you have a rhythm of concern on your Holter they will let you know.
It can't hurt to see someone for anxiety/obsessiveness. Cardiologists don't generally handle inappropriate "high anxiety" very well, it's not their specialty. If you had something the cardiologist could help you with, she would.
Hello,
A few months ago i went to a doctor because i had a lot of pvc's. After a lot of tests he told me that a have a normal heart and that my pvc's are benign. But he also told me that ten pvc's in a row could be dangerous. Why is that? On the forum i have read that more then 3 pvc's in a row = NSVT =benign. Is this correct?
I'm also concerned about my brother. He is having pvc's in a row (7-8) at a low heart rate (50-60bpm). What is this? NSVT?
Please help us to answer my questions. Thx.
A few months ago i went to a doctor because i had a lot of pvc's. After a lot of tests he told me that a have a normal heart and that my pvc's are benign. But he also told me that ten pvc's in a row could be dangerous. Why is that? On the forum i have read that more then 3 pvc's in a row = NSVT =benign. Is this correct?
I'm also concerned about my brother. He is having pvc's in a row (7-8) at a low heart rate (50-60bpm). What is this? NSVT?
Please help us to answer my questions. Thx.
Here we go again "ten PVC's in the row can be dangerous", or 6-7 in the row can be dangerous" as it was stated before. If this was the case I'd have died a long time ago. Did a Cardiologist tell you that 10 PVC's in the row are dangerous?? Because the Cardiologist I saw told me the total opposite.
I'be been there with the worries and know how all of you feel UNTILL a Cardiologist set my mind of ease i.e. telling me "the more I worry about it, the more frequent they come and the longer they stay". That "your mind is very powerful" and most of all THAT IT WILL NOT KILL ME.
Before I saw this Cardiologist I was put on beta blockers by a doctor, it slowed my heart rate to 30 bpm, I felt like **** but the PVC's were still there. I was put on Xanax and the PVC's got even worst. The Cardiologist took me off the beta blockers and Xanax immediately. Gave me all kind of tests for the heart and THEN sat down and explained to me what my mind is doing to me.
Untill I saw this Cardiologist my life was a living hell because of these PVC's and the worrying about it.
Get yourself checked out, if your heart is healthy (most of the time it is) TRUST WHAT THE CARDIOLOGIST TELLS YOU, and you will get better concerning the PVC's
What also helped me a lot was when a relative of mine who had 2 heart attacks by the age of 42 told me "to stop obsessing about my PVC's that he would gladly trade with me, he gladly would take my PBC's no matter how severe and I could have his 2 heart attacks which done damage to his heart and his life has never been the same since.
Good luck!
I'be been there with the worries and know how all of you feel UNTILL a Cardiologist set my mind of ease i.e. telling me "the more I worry about it, the more frequent they come and the longer they stay". That "your mind is very powerful" and most of all THAT IT WILL NOT KILL ME.
Before I saw this Cardiologist I was put on beta blockers by a doctor, it slowed my heart rate to 30 bpm, I felt like **** but the PVC's were still there. I was put on Xanax and the PVC's got even worst. The Cardiologist took me off the beta blockers and Xanax immediately. Gave me all kind of tests for the heart and THEN sat down and explained to me what my mind is doing to me.
Untill I saw this Cardiologist my life was a living hell because of these PVC's and the worrying about it.
Get yourself checked out, if your heart is healthy (most of the time it is) TRUST WHAT THE CARDIOLOGIST TELLS YOU, and you will get better concerning the PVC's
What also helped me a lot was when a relative of mine who had 2 heart attacks by the age of 42 told me "to stop obsessing about my PVC's that he would gladly trade with me, he gladly would take my PBC's no matter how severe and I could have his 2 heart attacks which done damage to his heart and his life has never been the same since.
Good luck!
"Here we go again "ten PVC's in the row can be dangerous", or 6-7 in the row can be dangerous" as it was stated before. If this was the case I'd have died a long time ago."
Me too : )
Still here and hope to be for a very long time : 0
Me too : )
Still here and hope to be for a very long time : 0
i wanna know where that rumor started! VERY curious.. As for the statement about pvc's and palps... a pvc is a premature beat, if you feel it,its a palp. A palpitation is any heartbeat that you feel. Even when you have a rush of adrenaline, and you feel your heart pounding, thats a palp, even if its not premature..
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