14400 PAC/PVC's a day.

[rmontgom21740]

Hello All,

I am a 43 year old male and have been dealing with PAC's and PVC's for most of my life.  Its normal for me to get 10 or 15 a day and I became use to it and never paid much attention to it.  Well, back in Sept. I was having a little more stress than normal and out of the blue, started having thousands a day.  The Doctor put me on Zoloft, Xanax and Bystolic.  I was doing OK at first but when I went to 100MGs of Zoloft I started to have them every other beat for weeks.  2 weeks ago the Doctor reduced my meds to 25 mgs of Zoloft and 1/4 of the dose of Bystolic.  Within a few days, most of my PAC/PVCs have gone away.  Has anyone had this experience?  I'm still wondering which drug was doing it.

Thanks
Rich

[itdood]

Hi rmontgom21740, nice on the AIX!  We still have some 4.3 running in our environment...just upgraded some r40s to b80s.  Nobody wants to spend the $ to upgrade the apps because it's "supposed to go away" starting like 10 years ago...  yes, it's stressful :-)

[CFS1]

I take 5 mg bystolic and at that dose it seems to decrease my PVCs and PACs pretty well.  I had an episode of SVT and they increased my dose to 10 mg, then down to 7.5.  Shortly thereafter I started having episodes of PVS every other beat or every 2 beats.  Went back down to 5 mg and it stopped.  Doctor says it was coincidental.  Also know that SSRIs can cause an increase in palps.  My sister had to quit zoloft because of it.

[rmontgom21740]

Thanks for the information and I agree with you.  I just want them to go away.  I see that you are an IT manager.  I am also in IT working as an AIX system Engineer.  My condition is probably caused by the stress of the job.  :-)   Anway, thanks for the information.

[itdood]

Probably both meds doing it.  I've heard anecdotally that bystolic will increase frequency of ectopic beats though reduce stroke volume (so they are a little less noticeable but a lot more frequent).  My own personal experience on a beta blocker matched this as-well.

Xanax lists "palpitations" as a measurable finding (side effect) in double blind studies.

Zoloft lists palpitations as a side effect as-well.

Good luck.