Echo test good but still lots pvc's

[marie222887]

Today i called the heart nurse who took the echocardiogram. She said the test came out "fine" and in the valves
there was just "trivial"/mild leakage and nothing to worry about. Said my heart was good. But i am still getting lots of pvc's all day and all nite. When i first wake up feel nothing at all, soon as i sit up i feel it, and feel my heart bouncing
in my chest. Will see heart doc in ten days to talk, but nurse said it's fine. So since my heart is find is this called
"bothersome and harmless" pvc's? I'm age 65. Just started 3 wks ago. Perfectly fine for many years until this
"episode". My regular doc suggested i double the metoprolol, but my resting heartbeat is already 53 and i don't want
to have it go lower. Before i got "sick" with these pvc's my resting heart rate was 60-65 and no skips or one or two
only. What do i do now? Get a holter and moniter? Too many can they weaken the heart to get heart failure when
i'm much older? The heart nurse also said that the trivial leakage was the same she sees in people who are normal and don't have mvp. I am also taking the metoprolol for hbp which i just started the pills 3 wks ago. Heart nurse
said unlikely that hbp caused the pvc's. Before this started my heart was fine and it rarely ever "skippped". Where do i go from here? And should i stop worrying since the echo came out "fine"?

[Barbmag]

I am a little older, 67 and have 'suffered' with PVC's for a long time. I find that magnesium Taurate helps immensely and also, maintaining a very 'clean' diet has helped. No processed foods, MSG, anything that is not in it's natural state and using coconut oil for cooking also is something that I do now. And staying well hydrated with pure water. Fluoride in tap water seems to cause arrhythmias in some people, so I have heard.  I have spent years doing research on these horrid PVC's. They may be 'benign' but feel anything but.
Hope this helps.

[marie222887]

Wow. I am trying to reduce the bb cuz still getting pvc's constantly and i
mean it feels like every beat. I will ask the doc about verapamil cuz i do
need something to lower the bp. I am older. Thanks.

[FLIPPINPATTY]

My EP specialist told me that sometimes when the heartrate is slow it can cause some people to get more pvc's. Verapamil is a calcium channel blocker. It has worked great for keeping my BP normal & I have no side effects. The BB was lowering my HR down into the 40's & 50's even at very a very low dosage.

[marie222887]

Thanks. I will ask heart doc on dec 4 when i go. My regular doc said to
double the metoprolol but i won't cuz will make heart go TOO slow. I did
start off with half dosage and when i upped it to regular i noticed i got flips all day and all nite instead of just all nite. Bpr was high. Regular doc said it
could cause the flips, but heart nurse said unlikely. Who to believe?! Is ccb
an antiarithmic? Side effects? Works better than bb?

[FLIPPINPATTY]

Many people have thousands of PVC'S everydayand have do not get heart failure. Your lower heart rate may be allowing more time for the pvc's to kick in.  This was happening to me & the doctor took me off the BB and gave me a calcium channel blocker, verapamil. You might ask.