Why do you all think you have PVCs?

[is_something_wrong]

I can't help but notice since I joined this community some months ago, people with skipped beats or palpitations tend to ask questions about PVCs. Like all flips in the chest are PVCs.

The upper chambers in the heart are more "irritable" than the main chambers. In other words, they are more likely to produce premature beats (PACs). A few examples:

Which is more common - A-fib (atrial) or V-fib (ventricular)?
Which is more common - SVT (atrial) or VT (V-tach) (ventricular)?

Both PACs and PVCs are usually benign, so it's really not an issue, I was just a little curious.

Even so-called "wide complex beats" on EKG are often PACs. If a PAC occurs very early, it can show as a wide complex on EKG, because the right ventricle is a little slower recovering than the left, leading the electricity to the left ventricle, and then to the right, thus mimic a PVC that origin in the left ventricle.

Just so you know :-)

[bbxx]

Every test I have ever had for the last 20 years says pvcs and very rare pacs. I feel mine and all my ekgs and holters confirmed I knew what I was feeling.
As to why? I bet (this is not from research or actually knowing anything)--but a hunch--I bet the pvcs are from MVP and the regurgitations. I also have 1st degree heart block--acquired from meds--sooooo I have no idea if that adds to anything or not.

[mrcoop]

BTW, I beleive its hormone related...since diagnosed with hypothyroid (actaully went to the er and was having severe skipped beats, fast heart rate, very high blood pressure...and no, I was not having an anxiety attack!)...and found I was hypo.  Since then, my skipped beats are all over the place at times and sometimes never a peep from the ticker.

[mrcoop]

for me...a pac is a pause...its normal beat, with no extra beat, but a pause...the doc says that is a pac Iam feeling which was caugt on ecg when I had it...but when I have a pvc caught on a ecg, its an extra beat followed by apause and then a thump.  For whatever reason, my extra beat is buried in the pac, really don't understand it...they both annoy me, but the pac is much harder to feel and is what I have 80% of the time...sometimes I have several a minute that can last for weeks....

[AAPLAY1980]

I HAVE BEEN GETTING PVCs FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS NOW. THEY ARE RUNING MY LIFE ALL I THINK ABOUT IS PVCs. EVERY TIME THEY GO AWAY I THINK TO MY SELF IM OVER THIS. AND I ALSO THINK THAT WHEN THEY COME BACK THEY WERE NOT GOING TO BOTHER ME.
  BUT BAM WHEN THEY ARE BACK IM ALL SCARED AGAIN. ITS HARD TO CONTROL. DOCTOR SAID TO ME IT IS NOT NORMAL IF YOU DONT GET PVCs. hope this helps.

[CFS56]

I have both PVCs and PACs documented on EKG and holter.  I can definitely tell the difference in the way they feel.  PVCs are a more pronounced "stop" to my normal rhythm, my heart truly feels like it skips an entire beat and then I have a "thump".  PACs are like an extra beat.  And when my heart goes into tachycardia and is irregular it's almost like I can feel the top part of my heart beating faster and independently of the bottom.  I know that sounds crazy but that's what it feels like.  I was in the ER when it did that once and doctor said it was PACs, then I went into afib.

[itdood]

" I hope I don't insult you and I don't want to start a "fight" here :-) "

heck no, no offence at all.  The statement goes against my perceptions so I'm trying to learn more. perception is the reality for people :-)