Hi Doctor, I am a 50 year old female, and likely about 50 lbs. overweight. I've been having PVCs since I was 18 years old. Lately, they have changed a lot. I recently took a holter monitor test, and the cardiologist who read the results said that of the 30+ incidents I recorded, only 5 of them were "real" skipped beats. I was also informed that "he could not help me." I went to an urgent care center, and while there, they stopped and all blood work and EKG came back normal. Upon returning home, they started up again.
I am menopausal and do get a lot of severe hot flashes, Estradiol doesn't really help. This is my attack:
First I will get what I now call a "hard" skipped beat or two, it's so intense that it actually jerks my entire body, like an electrical charge is going through it, and straight to my brain. Then I get a constant belching attack, it doesn't matter whether I've eaten food or not, and also the time of day has no significance. I belch over 10 times per minute. This will continue along with the skipping. After the initial onset of the attack, I break a serious sweat and the blood pounds in my head and ears. At night when I lay down to go to sleep, blood is pounding in my ears, and also when I get out of my car after driving, and when I get up from a sitting position. But the one that bothers me the most is when I try to go to sleep. Eventually, either I fall asleep or it levels out and stops.
I have an apptl. with another cardiologist on Sept. 3rd. I was wondering if perhaps you can give me any insight as to what might be happening to me so I don't keep feeling like I will die at any moment of any given day?