Thanks for sharing, Matt, and I hope things are better now than when you first posted two years ago. I read most of the posts in this thread and I see you have had some better times.

I am a 71 year old male with long-term controlled diabetes and a long family history of cardiac issues. My PVCs came out of nowhere a few weeks ago, starting shortly after an echo treadmill stress test that showed no significant issues. The confluence of symptoms scared me — heartburn, a feeling of fullness and/or a lump in the oesophagus, extreme tiredness, and moderate to severe shortness of breath, a change in my statin, gas and burping (never had a problem with burping in my life).

I started using my Kardia mobile device (six lead) whenever I noticed the activity and most results are normal sinus rhythm with PVCs, although a few have been SVCs, Afib, and wide QRS. I was lucky to have a scheduled visit with my cardiologist to discuss the echo stress test and showed him the strips from the Kardia mobile device. I wore a monitor for a day with no significant results, although I had multiple PVCs recorded on the Kardia device within 12 hours after the monitor was removed. My cardio doc absolutely pays attention to the Kardia device strips and asks me to send them to him. I don’t think we are far enough along in the process to discuss medicine changes yet, although he did say he was reluctant to prescribe a beta blocker because my BP is already low (regularly 100 or so over 60 or so) and I have a diagnosis of asthma from military service in southwest Asia (probably burn pit exposure). He says a beta blocker can be contra-indicated for those with asthma.

We’re in the early stages of dealing with this. Still, the heart hammering with the PVCs is extremely troubling, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night having an incident. I always have moderate to severe shortness of breath with the incidents, along with fatigue, both lasting up to five hours after an incident. Some incidents are clustered within the periods of shortness of breath and fatigue, just extending the overall feelings.

I’m retired, so do not have a stressful job. There is no discernible stress in my life, except for the anxiety caused by these PVCs. You and all the others here are not alone and I appreciate all the comments. I will take all of what was said into consideration and will discuss this with my cardio doc.

Thank you all for sharing!