frequent heart palpitations

[belinny]

I am 34 years old with a history of having heart palpitations since I was in my early teens.  My mother has them quite bad but has never been tested for it.  My grandmother now has a pacemaker that she totally depends on 100%.  I had my third child on July 13 and during the pregnancy they were the worst that they have ever been.  At Christmas last year I had them repeatly one after another after I had gone to bed.  I lost count in a half an hour that is how many that I was having.  I didn't faint and I wasn't short of breath but I did wonder if I should go to the emergency room.  On a good day I will still have them, sometimes 2-3 in a row.  They have been to the point where it seems to actually stop and I can count up to 2 or three before the next beat.  I am about 50lbs overweight but I am trying.  I have taken off 50lbs in the past two years.  I seem to be healthy as far as everything else goes.  I have had ekg and I did have a heart monitor put on for a day but that was years ago.  I was wondering if I should be tested again?  My doctor did tell me that he would test me again if it really bothers me but he doesn't think that it is anything to worry about.  I just wonder if this is going to steadily increase with my age and if I am going to have to worry about a pacemaker too.  My heart rate for the most part will run high (90-100)but after I had the baby it tends to run in the 60's for the most part.  Sometimes I have a tightness or heavy feeling around my throat and upper chest area but I have never fainted,been short of breath or had pain.  Thank you.

[KCDM]

i so know how you feel, these palps are slowing killing my quality of life day by day. i woke up the other morning with the most crazy irregular beats and pvcs, pacs and whatever else i may have had, all i know is i felt my chest and my heart was going all over the place, no sense to it.

i have been evaluated recently and given a great bill of health, echo, stress test, ekg, holter etc. yet here i am crying tonight, becuase i feel i will die...i am so broken now by this...what do i do now? i am a small piece of what i used to be and who i used to be. i'm only 23...

iam having a crazy fast pressure in my chest with the feeling that i can't catch my breath for a few moments. activity seems to make it all worse...at times i walk up stairs and i am gasping for air, other times not, more so lately i am. i am in good shape weight wise and don't smoke...anyone feel like this ever? i feel like this is it, i'm dead, no one helping me now...sorry if i damper the mood, i feel this is the only place i can go for help.

:(

[RHYTHMRN]

Hi,
I am kind of in the same boat.  I also had 2 ablations this year for AVNRT.  The last was 6/22/06.  I have not been the same since the ablation (Inappropriate Sinus Tach at first and now tons and tons of skipped beats - 24 hrs a day ).  I also have no tolerance for activity and become short of breath with minimal exertion. The skipped beats are causing me a lot of anxiety now and I am afraid to exercise.  I see my EP next week and am going to talk to him about this.  I would have skipped beats (they are calling mine PJCs and PACs) occasionally before I had the ablations - 5-6 per day on a bad day.  Now having up to several a minute.  This is very uncomfortable and I don't think I can take this indefinitely.  Does your EP feel that you increase in PVCs is from the ablation??  Please respond..........

Rhythmrn

[tickertock]

PVCs are triggers for about 30% of all SVTs. It depends on the timing of the PVCs, on rare occasions PVCs can even trigger atrial fibrillation. Check out http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1998/01_98/karas.htm

[PikaPika88]

I understand what is tickertock said.  Most of my palpitations are start from PAC & PVC and it turns into tachy.  That's why my cardio said I didn't have PAC or PVC.  All I've is tachy or fib.  If in the first place, they treated or control my PAC & PVC then the tachy and fib will not or would not happen today!

One of the survivor can speak up!  

Pika

[PikaPika88]

I think they are all sort of methods that our heart wants to communicate to us.  Just the dr unable to produce enough of the records said it'll take lives away so they leave it aside and documented "no harm"!  Actually, it is the symptom of something..... May be they don't want to disclose the documentry to increase the patients in ER.  May be the research failed to prove it.  

All the abnormal beats will lead to "wait and see" game.  Wait until it turn out somethings....  See what will turn up next?  Fortunate one will survise and with a handful of "Thanks"!  They probably forgot what they complaint in the past. What they begged to look in before this incident happen!  Un survise one that unable to speak up.  

I just want to know why can't we prevent it before it turns up something wrong or worse?  

Pika

[tickertock]

PVCs and PACs are automatic, random escape ectopic foci in the atria and ventricles, they are millions of cells within the heart muscle, from time to time some of them become irritable and misfire and cause PACs(atrial) and PVCs (ventricular), while they might interrupt the conduction system and reset the sinus node, they in themselves are not a disease of the conduction system of the heart. My understanding only , I'm not a medical doctor.