How many pvc's do you have a minute?

[camper12]

Hello,
I am a 42 year old woman who woke up 7 weeks ago with constant PVC's.  I was to the family practice dr., the ER, and the cardiologist.  I have had the stress test with ultrasound and the holter monitor and also all the blood work.  I have been assured by all the docs. that I am ok but I am concerned because I have these ALL the time.  Once in awhile they stop for a few hours.  I seem to feel them all.  I have dizziness while I sleep sometimes - that only started after the PVC's but the dr. told me not to worry about that, the it was not caused by the PVC's- but that only started after I had them.  I do have "runs" in the beat sometimes...like 2 beats and the the next one is "missing" and this happens five or six times in a row.  I did not talk to the dr. about the "runs" but I am sure that he saw them on the 48 hour holter monitor.  Anyway, my question is this...does anyone else have constant pvc's and are you assured that this is "normal" and not dangerous.   AND Do you think that I should be satisfied with the answers or look to another opinion.  No one has given a thought - in my case- as to what causes them but I can tell you that it is not caffeine or immediate stressful situations...I did have a traumatic year last year with a stillborn baby and my husband falling off a ladder and getting a traumatic head injury.  My life was just starting to be "normal" after all of that and then this starts.  Any helpful advice is appreciated.  Thank you,

[Momto3]

I know it;s hard to believe, but in a structurally normal heart, the PVCs are considered benign.  It is so hard to imagine that something so strange can be "normal".  I used to have about 1000 PVC's an hour and the doctors were not at all concerned.  

Take care.  You're gonna be OK : )

connie

[RNRita]

Yup, when your heart beats at 72 and every other on is a PVC, they can quickly add up!

[RNRita]

Hi there.  I can tell you that there are people who live in bigeminy (every other beat) or trigeminy (every third beat), for years.  I have lived with both for up to 8 weeks thinking it would never go away.  Then it abruptly stopped.  Sometimes it comes back.  It feels terrible, and I know this.  Do you know there are people out there who live in this rhythm and feel nothing?  Stress causes dizziness, too.  I am a "victim" of that, as well.  Anyway, I am a cardiac nurse and worked in critical care telemtry.  There was a 42 (coincidence?  lol) woman that came in in bigeminy.  They kept her overnight and released her the next day.  Told her she should just get used to it.  That is when I realized that no cardiologist gets excited about it in the absence of coronary disease. And when they say that, they mean it.  If you have had the tests and found to be otherwise healthy, you have just joined my club!  Congrats, it isn't fun, but you'll survive.