a sudden hard pinching/pounding beat . Is it something to worry about?

[Aki2ruru]

Hello everyone.
I know many of you experience PVC's/ PAC's.
I don't know if what I feel is the same.
I mentioned PVC because its all that people with similar symptoms are talking about.

What I feel is a strange heart beat, it is hard to describe but i will try my best:
It is:
1.Sudden
2.Irregular
3.Pounding(but sudden and felt in only one beat)
4.Hard (depending on how hard my heart is beating)
5.It is followed by a pause
6.Is a scary feeling for me
7.feels like something was blocked and blood shoots in the heart to unblock it...
please note that this is not continuous palps. It is all felt in one beat.

It happens:
1.Randomly(3-4 times a day)
2.When i take a deep breath (feels like heart hits agains chest wall)
3.when i bend down suddenly(not always, theres less chance it will happen if i bend a second time)
4.when i think of it
5.when im stressed/anxious
6.The following day i consume alcohol

I am 24 years old male. Not overweight

I was seen by 2 or 3 cardiologists, had 3 or 4 ECG done since 2007 with negative results + 1 echo in 2009 and another echo last week with negative result (valves normal, no heart failure)

Please advice on how to reduce or eliminate symptoms...

[dolphin8808]

I agree with Jerry, you need a monitor so they can see what exactly you are feeling. PVCs are very very scary and while that does sound like what you are feeling, we cannot be sure.

[Jerry_NJ]

Sorry to read you are suffering.  PVC isn't one of my problems, so I delayed commenting on your post.

The problem with an ECG is it is only a snap-shot in time, and unless the rhythm condition is continuous (permanent) it will most likely not be captured in the snap-shoot.  That is why many of us have wore a recording monitor.  The so-called Halter is a 24 hours watch (rather than snap-shot) and it is possible to wear one longer.  I wore a monitor of at least a week a few years back.  In this case it confirmed I am in permanent Atrail FIbrillation (we already knew that) and it also reported the good news that there was nothing else going on.

Have any of your doctors had you try a beta blocker?  That seems to be the standards first level of symptom treatment - I believe beta blocker is only a symptom treatment, not a cure. If the symptoms lower the quality of life and the chemicals don't resolve that problem there are invasive procedures that can effect a cure.  Ablation is one you may want to discuss once you have a clear diagnosis of what it wrong.