Question about risk of developing sudden death

[Carey01]

I have been reading these posts for years and a lot of wonderfulp people on this site have 100's if not thousands of PVCS/PACS per day and somehow manage.  MY hats off to all of you!  My question is this:  How does one KNOW  that their PVC/PACS exisiting in a structurally normal heart with no past heart failure will not go into to a run of PVC/PACS leading to V Tach or some other deadly arrythmia.  The fear of this happening has left me almost unable to travel because im worried that my bnign skips will suddenly change face and all come together.  I have to go out of town this weekend and am thinkingof cancelling.  Any information would be so helpful.

Thanks-
Carey

[Icanputyourfireout]

As i sit here thinking ,trying to figure out why i have these , i can come up with one fact answer..They all started six months ago. Hmm at this time in my life i also started my emt class. And i also seen my first dead body.. Then i seen many heart attacks and deaths.ALL THIS HAPPENED in a 2 month period..Now,I know for a fact i have pac and pvc's,but were they always there ,or did i bring them on..Its hard for me to believe they were always there because of the intensity in which i feel them now  would have been hard to ignore my whole life up till now. So maybe this recent fear and stress started them???.Was i ignoring death .I'm only 27 that cant happen to me.But then i see it,guys my age in car accidents,dead. Unexplained deaths,guys my age..all in a short period of time. many of these ppl still alive when i arrived looking at me  for help ,but the inevitable was going to happen..For the first time in my life i read your post and ask myself ,could my own  fear of death and its recent  realism be causing me to obsess with something that everyone says is benign, my pac and pvc's that is. This fear of death lately has come over me like crazy,its like i think everything is wrong with me.errr     sorry if go on and on but i want to thanks you for opening my eyes a little more..Its hard to get inside yer own head and figure out if your mentally Ok...Well ne ways i quit my emt job. I knew for a fact that line of work was affecting my mental health.. Im still a volunteer firefighter,even though i pull ppl out of cars accidents more than i fight fires

[Momto3]

Hi Carey!

So glad you found us.   There are a lot of people here with the same anxiety, people that understand your concern.  Have you been checked by your internist?  Any cardiac testing (EKG, Holter monitor, event monitor, stress test, any other tests)?  As long as your doctor has checked you out and knows what you are describing are PVCs, you can feel almost 100% certain of not developing a serious arrythmia because of them.  If you have not been checked out, that would be a great first step.  If your doctor isn't sure of what's going on, he/she may order a monitor so you can record your heart beats and he can interpret the test results.

Again, welcome to the Forum.  Please feel free to review the archives or post new comments/questions of your own.  You'll find a lot of friendly and helpful people here : )

connie

[finetilthree]

Do you really want to cancel your out of town trip based on a "what if"?  What if you were in a fatal car accident on the way to the airport?  Or what if your plane crashed down over the ocean?  Are you ready to give up driving also?  Give up flying?  Anything could happen to any one of us at any time.  Not living your life won't stop your heart from stopping if it wants to stop.  No one can guarantee that we won't drop dead at any moment...no one gets that guarantee.  Little kids drop dead, old people drop dead and everyone in between.  Chances are good that the doctors are right...we will be just fiine and go on to live normal lifespans. But if they are wrong, do you really want to waste your time NOT living?  Or worse yet, if they are right, look back when you are 80 years old and realized that you wasted the last 40 NOT living?  Which is worse?