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Skipped Beats, PVC's etc.
I started again to have these feelings of skipped heart beats beginning on 7/23. Sometimes maybe 2 per minute but may go as high as 10 per minute. The come and go during the day which is very frustrating. I have been taking 12.5 mg of Paxil CR for anxiety for about two years now. I haven't had any issues with these skipped beats since 3/03. Then all of a sudden they return. In March I went to see a cardiologist I met during my anxiety issues and he assured me that my heart was in great shape and these skipped beats can re-surface and disappear just like that. In 2000 I developed anxiety symptoms and was treated for them. I had numerous tests at a cardiologist's offce during this time since some of my anxiety symptoms were causing what I thought were heart issues. I had a stress echo in 9/99 and a cardiolite stress test in 6/01. All negative. Twenty-one day event monitor, X-rays and numerous blood tests along with re-visits to a cardiologist since 2000.
I am an avid cyclist and tennis player three times a week. I drink coffee in the morning but it is a light caffeine version. Alcohol on the weekends and sometimes during the week with neighbors. I am not overweight and watch what I eat.
Giving you all this backgound, why do these skipped hearts beats keep coming and going. They create a very uncomfortable, anxious feeling when they happen and I am quite sure they feed my anxiety. Can I do anything about them. Are they serious? Do you have any advice or should I expect to live with them.
I am an avid cyclist and tennis player three times a week. I drink coffee in the morning but it is a light caffeine version. Alcohol on the weekends and sometimes during the week with neighbors. I am not overweight and watch what I eat.
Giving you all this backgound, why do these skipped hearts beats keep coming and going. They create a very uncomfortable, anxious feeling when they happen and I am quite sure they feed my anxiety. Can I do anything about them. Are they serious? Do you have any advice or should I expect to live with them.
Hello,
This heart board is sure well informed.
I see a correlation with meals and told my EP and he said due to the blood working to digest food , type of meal and size. I eat many small meals and drink alot of water.
With hormones and changes with my cycle this past year I thought this was the cause for the initial increase in symptoms.
I have not tried a beta-blocker as well. But when they are extreme for days it is so hard not to wish for relief. Hope to learn by sharing heart stories.
When is medication and ablation the only option and Do they always increase with age ?
thanks
This heart board is sure well informed.
I see a correlation with meals and told my EP and he said due to the blood working to digest food , type of meal and size. I eat many small meals and drink alot of water.
With hormones and changes with my cycle this past year I thought this was the cause for the initial increase in symptoms.
I have not tried a beta-blocker as well. But when they are extreme for days it is so hard not to wish for relief. Hope to learn by sharing heart stories.
When is medication and ablation the only option and Do they always increase with age ?
thanks
This is for Mel22...what does Magnesium do and who recommended it to you? I just started a bad run of PVC for about 4 days now. I know it's part psychological for me..I think about it and concentrate on it and then it happens (then I freak out and feel anxious- and the whole cycles repeats). I am willing to try anything to get rid of this retarded heart problem.
Thanks
Thanks
why on earth would eating cause me to have runs of pacs and pvcs? I understand that heart race normally goes up a bit after you eat or you could have blood sugar fluxes, etc, but I'm not talking about AFTER you eat, i'm talking about biting on a piece of food swallowing and having them then, or about the time the food is in your stomach.. this is so CRAZY! I'm on an event monitor and had a few almonds and I swear within minutes I had the event monitor filled up with "events"..
YOu wrote:
>> also tried beta blockers when these PVC's first started and they made me CRAZY!! Thought I was having a nervous breakdown. Plus the PVC's were worse (more frequent and harder). >>
GOSH! really? I feel crazy -- been on metoprolol, low dose, for about a month and my palpitations are worse than they ever were before in my LIFE!!!! can beta blockers worsen palps? I figured that was impossible???! Mine are way more frequent hours and days at a time.. this is horrible.
>> also tried beta blockers when these PVC's first started and they made me CRAZY!! Thought I was having a nervous breakdown. Plus the PVC's were worse (more frequent and harder). >>
GOSH! really? I feel crazy -- been on metoprolol, low dose, for about a month and my palpitations are worse than they ever were before in my LIFE!!!! can beta blockers worsen palps? I figured that was impossible???! Mine are way more frequent hours and days at a time.. this is horrible.
Tony,
Had the initial tests on the NHS ECG ect but they all show the heart as healthy, they more or less say its a benign condition and live with it!
I hardly notice them some days and have plenty of noticeable ones other days
Had the initial tests on the NHS ECG ect but they all show the heart as healthy, they more or less say its a benign condition and live with it!
I hardly notice them some days and have plenty of noticeable ones other days
Hi S,
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Nothing wrong with tarot-cards Sarge; why should that be a problem -('she falls off the deep end' etc etc.)- you mean she's a bit crazy every now and then?
Do not judge so quickly.
You should try them (the cards) sometime and then comment again....-you may be amazed-....
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Hi leeb, thanks for the links, I suffer from the same: the locking up of the spine and ooops there are the PVC's!!
This and other culprits of course... ;-)
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Good luck - bye - *Ianna* -
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Nothing wrong with tarot-cards Sarge; why should that be a problem -('she falls off the deep end' etc etc.)- you mean she's a bit crazy every now and then?
Do not judge so quickly.
You should try them (the cards) sometime and then comment again....-you may be amazed-....
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Hi leeb, thanks for the links, I suffer from the same: the locking up of the spine and ooops there are the PVC's!!
This and other culprits of course... ;-)
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Good luck - bye - *Ianna* -
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