Skippy heart beats

[rockymountain232]

I tried to post on the doctor forum but it won't let me so I thought I was run this by some other people:

Can you please tell me if I have been thru all the necessary testing for PVC's, PAC's, heart flutters etc. then I should not worry?  I have had a holter (saw triplet PVC's  and couplet PVC's (I think it was around 100 the day of the holter).  I would think that 100 is quite a few?  Would you consider this quite a few?  The doctor didn't seem concerned about it and said since you have a normal heart don't sweat it (easy for him to say - he isn't getting these).  

I have also had a stress test and it came back normal and an echo.  The echo said there was slight backup of something but the guy told me it was totally normal to have that.  Do you think I should pursue this thru another cardiologist or just not worry about it?  I get skips, flutters etc. every single day and I really don't like the feeling of them.  I take Prozac for my worry about these things and I think it takes the edge off a little but I still don't understand why my heart continually does this.  Sometimes it just does one hard bang and other times it will do it every third or fouth beat.  Is it true that normal hearts act like this?  I don't know of anyone that feels skips and flutters and that is why I am having such a hard time beleiving the cardiologist I saw.  I am a 47 year old healthy female.

[rockymountain232]

Oh my!  How in the world do you handle a 1000 PVC's per hour???  I would go nuts!  I can't stand getting a 100 a day!

Can I ask what yours feel like?  Do you get fluttery sensations as well as a beat.beat.pause.hard bang??  I hate the feeling of them so much.  I can sometimes get them all day one day and then just on an off the next day.  I just can't believe normal hearts do this.

[upbeat633]

There are many people on this forum who experience high frequency PVCs. That being defined as greater than 30 pvcs an hour. That always makes me laugh, and maybe laughter helps with the PVCs, because I get over 1000 per hour.

I've posted here before but it was a long, long time ago. I'm still in bigeminy or trigeminy most of the day, so probably average 25,000+pvcs/day. I'm still here! but I guess the sensation of them is bothersome to me again so I'm revisiting the forum seeking some comfort. I hope I can pass along some comfort too. If knowing that other people have been around for years and years and years is helpful, well, I'm glad to share.

If you still have unanswered questions Rocymountain, don't hestitate to keep asking your doctors, but don't fall into the trap of thinking they've missed something. I haven't found anything new about pvcs since I was 18 years old, and now I'm 44. The doctors still don't seem too worried about the pvcs even when, in my case, they have tripled in number. I would only suggest you have an echo every couple of years to make sure your heart is still "structurally" sound, because the party line is still "pvcs are benign in a structurally sound heart". I just had an echo yesterday so I'm a little anxious to hear the results.

[ireneo]

It's good to hear that your heart is structurally sound. Does the electrical system go blip now and then in "normal" hearts? Oh yes. I can tell you there are folks out there with thousands, even tens of thousands of PVC's a day. Can you imagine? Of course that won't make yours any less noticeable. But maybe it will help you feel safer with your heart hiccups. One of the biggest problems with PVC's is the worry that seems to come with them. If you can fight that off by staying busy, distracting yourself and telling yourself "Oops, my heart burped again" it will be easier for you. Enjoy life. Take care.