Innocent murmur

[Jenn1302]

Hello everyone,

A few days ago I saw a cardiologist about the PVCs/PACs I've been suffering from for the past couple of years. After listening to my heart and looking at my EKG and echo the doctor said I have an innocent heart murmur. I've heard that kids and babies often get this condition, but I'm an adult. I've never had this condition before, not even as a kid or an infant. My heart sounded perfectly normal and murmur-free when I was born. I've seen a few cardiologists and doctors before (relatively recently) and they always said that my heart sounded perfectly normal (with no murmur). Why would I suddenly develop an innocent heart murmur in my 20's?

[Jenn1302]

Thank you for your response. The thing is that the echo was done before I had the murmur and it came back perfectly normal. As far as I understand, he thinks my murmur is innocent based on an echo that was done 7 months ago,  long before the murmur started. He also said that the murmur sounded like an innocent/functional murmur or something.

[Bromley]

Hi. I am not a doctor and have little direct knowledge of this. If you have a heart murmur, though, I would think that there is some physical cause for it that your doctor would have some knowledge about after having seen your echo.  I don't think there are a lot of mysteries here, at least not normally. Once they see your echo, and do a little testing they know. You should ask your doc why he thinks its innocent???