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heart palpitations - help
33 yr old female gave birth 5 months ago-
recently tested low vitamin d (16)
originally seen for chest pain a year 1/2 ago had alot of work up a couple ekg's, stress test on treadmill, heart ultra sound all came back normal and recently an event monitor -i noticed theses little flutters in my chest about 1 month ago, at first didnt really bother me like once or twice a day i recorded them on event monitor and dr said they were benign pvc's- but latley i will have heavier flutters in center of upper chest like a flip flop in my chest very uncomfortable i usually will have 3 or 4 in a row about 10-15 times a day- i noticed they dont start till later in the day like 2-3 in afternoon and really pick up when im relaxing at night i realized also they happen after i eat a big meal...they really scare me. Im afraid im gona drop dead, with all these test being normal 1 1/2 years ago should i push my dr to look more into this or do i just deal with these palpitations? should i ask for the 24-72 hr holter monitor? i cant imagine living like this- thanks for your time
recently tested low vitamin d (16)
originally seen for chest pain a year 1/2 ago had alot of work up a couple ekg's, stress test on treadmill, heart ultra sound all came back normal and recently an event monitor -i noticed theses little flutters in my chest about 1 month ago, at first didnt really bother me like once or twice a day i recorded them on event monitor and dr said they were benign pvc's- but latley i will have heavier flutters in center of upper chest like a flip flop in my chest very uncomfortable i usually will have 3 or 4 in a row about 10-15 times a day- i noticed they dont start till later in the day like 2-3 in afternoon and really pick up when im relaxing at night i realized also they happen after i eat a big meal...they really scare me. Im afraid im gona drop dead, with all these test being normal 1 1/2 years ago should i push my dr to look more into this or do i just deal with these palpitations? should i ask for the 24-72 hr holter monitor? i cant imagine living like this- thanks for your time
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Noticed your post about PVC's starting after a meal. For the past year and a half I have been having benign episodic PAC's/PVC's that begin bout 11:30 in the morning and can last for a few minutes or go on for hours. What makes the situation more difficult to understand is that they do not occur every day...I can go a week or so without them, have days when they are few and far between or on some occasions they last for hours. In my case they seem to go away by evening. All my tests (stress, echo, echo, CTA) show no evidence of coronary heart disease. It really doesn't matter that the doctors say that they are benign, normal and not to worry they still scare me silly, so much so that I've gone to the ER only to be sent home two hours later. The only reason to do a holter or event monitor again would be to document exactly what type of arrhythmia you are having. Otherwise there is very little non-invasively that can be done. Beta blockers can help some folks.
Good luck.
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It's important to get a current complete cardiac workup because our bodies do change after events such as pregnancy, BUT 95-99% of the time all arrhythmia's are benign.
Some of us have 20,000 - 50,000 pvc's daily or other things like PACS, PVST, SVT, Afib etc going on and understand what you're going through.