breathlessness and PAC

[Majbritt]

sometimes if I have a lot of extra beats in a row, so I do not feel that I can breathe, this is something that belongs to the extra beats or is it fear?

My doctor can not answer it and I have made ​​a normal ECG who did not show anything. On the other hand

my life is completely ruined because of these, I dare not go anywhere, I can not enjoy a glass of wine, a cup of coffee or another, I'm afraid all day, I get no medicine for this.

It started out of the blue half years ago and it gets worse / more frequent with extra beat, now I have them every day, most of the day. The doctor does not believe there is a need for new studies. So I cry every day of just anxiety over this.

I'm female 39 years old, inactive, because of these, slim a little elevated blood pressure and normal kolestrerol.

Can anyone help me with this??showed a Holter studies many series of extra beats I get very scared and afraid to pass out when it's so bad.  

[colby12]

Take magnesium. Magnesium Malate is actually the best form of Magnesium to take for PAC or PVC because not only is it a chelated form which has a high bio-availablility but the malate form works with a part of the Krebs cycle that targets muscle cells including your heart muscle cells. Studies have shown the people who die from PVC induced MI had a very low functioning or non exsistant Magnesium Malate Kreb cycle function. I am in a Respritory Therapy program and we have to know ion function as a matter of routine to keep patients alive. Magnesium is a ion that is  critical in the balance of homestasis as it relates to cell function. It is simple in the fact that if your magnesium is low your cells lose their ability to perform their normal function and in the case of heart muscle pace maker cells they will lose the ability to fire properly at regular intervals causing PAC & PVCs. Also normal blood serum levels of  magnesium does not indicate that magnesium in your cells is normal or not deficient. Thus the chelated forms should be taken as most know by now. I had arrythmias that were getting so bad that it was getting hard to breathe on occasion. I started taken Magnesium Glycinate and my PACs went down by half. Then I read the studies on the Krebs-Malate cycle combined with my own knowledge from my University work. I do not have ANY arrythmia as long as I take the Malate form of Magnesium. I take Magnesium Malate from Source Naturals.  

[Hope75]

I have the same since I was 21.  I'm 35 and healthy, except I contracted Lyme disease.  Anyway, the PVCs, breathlessness, all that, is only present when I'm anxious.  I've been tested by every test there is and my heart is healthy healthy healthy.  You can't stress about it, or it's a vicious cycle and you have more.  ALL IT IS IS AN ANNOYANCE.  That's all.  Just take it as that, accept it, and you'll find yourself having them and not even thinking about it.  I have them all the time but don't pay any attention until someone mentions having their own and then I say, yep, just had one.  Nobody dies from PVCs, period.  Anxiety is your biggest foe here.

[is_something_wrong]

No. But since I only had PACs, the doctor said that ventricular rhythms could be ruled out.

[bexarooney]

Have u had a run caught on a monitor??

[is_something_wrong]

Yes, captured on Holter. I also had one PAC after the stress test.

I also uploaded my normal resting EKG on my profile if you want to look at it. No PACs there.

[bexarooney]

Pretty much same as me!!! Exept I had a week constant monitoring in a cardiac unit!! Where my trace was constantly being printed out 24 hrs a day!! The tapes got reviewed by an ep who ruled "no pathalogical arrythmia present" put it down to my thyroid hormone replacement therepy just reacting in my body!! Has your rythm been captured on a tape??

[is_something_wrong]

A lot ;)

Holter (24 hrs)
Stress EKG test
Echocardiography x 2
Lots of resting EKG's (most of them while trying to capture an arrhythmia, where most of them failed)
Monitoring at the emergency room (15 min x 2).
Troponine test (cardiac enzymes) to rule out myocarditis
4 consultations with cardiologists, (listening for murmurs, etc.)
Ultrasound aorta to rule out aneurysm due to family history
Thyroid tests
Blood sugar tests

Only things I haven't done are EP study and angiography I think. ;)

[bexarooney]

What tests have u had? (Is something wrong) the usual I presume?

[is_something_wrong]

Majbritt: I answered it.

Bexa: Usually not. PACs are known to cluster up in small runs. If your atria are normal on echo and you don't faint, it's usually OK I think.

[bexarooney]

Is the rytham u describe above with a series of pacs dangerous

[Majbritt]

jeg har sendt en privat besked til dig.

[is_something_wrong]

I don't understand your post completely. You can send me a message in Danish if you like, and I can answer you in Norwegian.

Do you have series of PACs (like 1--2--345678--9--10 and so on) or just times with lots of single PACs?

If the PACs are triggered by alcohol and coffeine, beta blockers can be prescribed by your doctor.

The breathlessness can have several causes but it's important that you answer the question above regarding series.