Heart Arrhythmia ( PVCs ) please Help ! :(

[Lucas2014]

Hello  I'm a 21 year old guy and I've been having heart palpitations ( PVCs more than 12 000 a day ) for the past four months . They have ruined everything in my life and I don't know what to do anymore !! doctors been telling how anxiety, stress  and caffeine and all the other stuff can cause them and it's okay to have them.  you just gotta have to ignore , that is soooo crazy !! because no matter how hard I try I can't ignore them :((  I feel everyone of these extra , skipped beats in my chest and they drive me crazy especially at night when I try to sleep .the head of my bed would start shaking from these extremely forceful beats and I get these fluttering feeling in my chest all the time . cant count the number of times I've been to the hospitals in the last four months !   but they usually send me back home saying it's probably the anxiety attack and my arrhythmia is benign , go home and rest don't think about it ! I mean Seriously  ??  i hate when they say that ! I feel so scared and I don't know where to go .
I didn't even know what the anxiety was ,   I was happy with my life , I used to go to the gym 4 - 5 times a day and I was in a great shape , not drinking or smoking never have , eating extremely healthy diet , why would I get these very frequent PVCs every day  ?  they are not able to tell me why ? there seems to be no reason  , all the tests came back normal , hormones and stuff . if it was from my anxiety can they last for this long  ?  4 months  ? will they ever go away  ? I wanna get my life back that happiness I had in me . please someone help , I don't wanna be scared like a baby but they freak me out . I know my heart isn't suppose to work like this . its not okay !!  how can they benign  ? I also take anti anxiety drugs Xanax 0.25mg at night but it's not helping me at all . please if there's someone out there help me to understand this .please :(

[Lucas2014]

Hi everyone ,  I'm still in Georgia , had met another doc this week , and we just found out that  I have had this when I was 17  , i called the hospital in USA and they sent me the copy of my Holter four years ago , I knew that had met the cardiologist back then but I didn't remember why now i know , this has changed everything , my PVCs have started when I was a teen , and now they came back fours years later or maybe I have had them but I didn't know , 6 cardiologists have told me I'd be fine but I still can't get this out of my head especially now after what I just found out .
my only question is if everything is perfectly fine with my heart why would I get this for so many years , maybe I was born with PVCs  ? I don't what to think .....................

[Elli126]

I second Achillea. Five cardiologists in one week!!! Stick with your shrink. I was extremely panicked too when all this first started. Doctor after doctor have said you're ok. It's time to start really treating the panic. That's what I had to do. Aside from the drugs, I found that talk therapy helped me a lot too. Hang in there!

[achillea]

Lucas, you have had repeated (!!) testing that shows your heart is young and healthy.  Yes, you have lots of PVCs, but not enough to be considered serious (20,000 per day is the point at which doctors start to pay attention), and the other small bursts of strange beats are isolated and of no medical significance.

You have been trying some anti arrhythmic drugs, which in your case are unnecessary, since your PVCs are all benign.  In addition there is the fact--which you can google--that anti-arrhythmics can cause more harm than good when used on healthy hearts.

I think the doc who gave you Cipralex (Lexapro) and Klonazepam is on the right track, because your biggest problem is anxiety about your heart.  And of course, anxiety increases the amount of adrenalin in your system, which further irritates your heart.  Your near-fainting episode of Feb 9 was almost certainly a 'vaso-vagal faint' (google it), the result of fear.  Vagal stimulation causes the heart to beat slowly for a while, but it is self-correcting, as you saw.

So, what to do?  As I told you in an earlier post, it is important to see the right doctor for the symptoms.  You are tormented by anxiety and panic, and the correct doctor for these problems is a psychiatrist.  BTW, I personally found Lexapro to be not very calming.  Zoloft was better for me, and you might want to ask the shrink you will be seeing soon (am I right?) about that.

[Lucas2014]

Hey how are you guys ? Sorry that  I have not been posting for a long time I'm not in the state , I'm  in the country  Georgia , my dad is from there and I have traveled that far for my PVCs .  I've met 5 cardiologists in one week and they all say different thing , no heart diseases , structurally healthy heart but no one can say if my PVCs ever go away or why do I get them everyday , Holter showed 13 556 more than I had three months ago , Xanax and Nebilet ( beta blocker )  did nothing  . Now one doc told me to take Amoidarone which has many side effects and I have already take 8 tablets 200 mg . I stopped today cuz I got a call from another cardiologist say I have idiopathic PVCs and we do not need to bomb my heart with strongest antiarrytthmetic drugs , he told me to take Isoptin  Verapamil 240 mg once a day for one months and he said we would have to have holter again to see if this drug is working . Neurologist put me on psychotropic anti depression drugs Cipralex and Clonazepam , i am just confused and don't know what to do , another cardiologist told me to leave this alone and he said if you were my son I wouldn't let you take these drugs at this age , he also said something about sex hormones how can they cause this and I don't know if I should get that test done . Guys I want to know what you think ? I can't make this decision I have stopped taking Amiodarone .

[Lucas2014]

Hey how are you guys ? Sorry that  I have not been posting for a long time I'm not in the state , I'm  in the country  Georgia , my dad is from there and I have traveled that far for my PVCs .  I've met 5 cardiologists in one week and they all say different thing , no heart diseases , structurally healthy heart but no one can say if my PVCs ever go away or why do I get them everyday , Holter showed 13 556 more than I had three months ago , Xanax and Nebilet ( beta blocker )  did nothing  . Now one doc told me to take Amoidarone which has many side effects and I have already take 8 tablets 200 mg . I stopped today cuz I got a call from another cardiologist say I have idiopathic PVCs and we do not need to bomb my heart with strongest antiarrytthmetic drugs , he told me to take Isoptin  Verapamil 240 mg once a day for one months and he said we would have to have holter again to see if this drug is working . Neurologist put me on psychotropic anti depression drugs Cipralex and Clonazepam , i am just confused and don't know what to do , another cardiologist told me to leave this alone and he said if you were my son I wouldn't let you take these drugs at this age , he also said something about sex hormones how can they cause this and I don't know if I should get that test done . Guys I want to know what you think ? I can't make this decision I have stopped taking Amiodarone .

[Lucas2014]

Hey how are you guys ? Sorry that  I have not been posting for a long time I'm not in the state , I'm  in the country  Georgia , my dad is from there and I have traveled that far for my PVCs .  I've met 5 cardiologists in one week and they all say different thing , no heart diseases , structurally healthy heart but no one can say if my PVCs ever go away or why do I get them everyday , Holter showed 13 556 more than I had three months ago , Xanax and Nebilet ( beta blocker )  did nothing  . Now one doc told me to take Amoidarone which has many side effects and I have already take 8 tablets 200 mg . I stopped today cuz I got a call from another cardiologist say I have idiopathic PVCs and we do not need to bomb my heart with strongest antiarrytthmetic drugs , he told me to take Isoptin  Verapamil 240 mg once a day for one months and he said we would have to have holter again to see if this drug is working . Neurologist put me on psychotropic anti depression drugs Cipralex and Clonazepam , i am just confused and don't know what to do , another cardiologist told me to leave this alone and he said if you were my son I wouldn't let you take these drugs at this age , he also said something about sex hormones how can they cause this and I don't know if I should get that test done . Guys I want to know what you think ? I can't make this decision I have stopped taking Amiodarone .