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Managing and Living With PACs and PVCs

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@carol1024

I have same thing. I've had echo, stress test, heart cath you name it, I've had it. I do take metoprolol 25mg. I was on atenolol but another doctor said that the metoprolol was better. I might have one a week and my resting heart rate is about 50 also. My cardiologist said EVERYONE has PVC's and PAC's, even he has them. The PAC's are more normal. It's just that some people are very in tune with their body and can feel every one they have. He said I only needed to worry if I had something like 50 in 10 seconds or so. Having one then another in 5 minutes is nothing. Sometimes it helps to either cough or bear down like you're having a bowel movement or baby and it causes the heart to reset so to speak. When everything else heart related comes back normal then I know it's just a glitch that isn't harmful. Much like tourettes in some people, it's just an annoyance. Even when they've put me on a monitor in the ER I will hear the nurse say I'm throwing PVC's. I do take a very low dose of xanax because when I get excited or a sudden scare, my heart goes crazy. I can get excited telling a story and can feel my heart start to flutter. The xanax is to keep the anxiety level down so my heart stats calm.

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@carol1024
Great information and advice. I too have had it all. I take a medicine called Metrizine. It helps with VTAC.

Every cariologist says same as you said. Everyone will have PVCs and PACs and are quite normal. Some like you and I are tuned in to them thus we feel them more than others. I have an ICD/Pacemaker and have had shocks. So when I have a lot of PVCs I fear the shocks not the PVCs.

Going to knock on wood but since they turned off my exercise mode on my pacemaker I have not had a shock now it almost two years. I was advised by my EP (Director of Electrophysiology at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville) to take 400 mg of Magnesium. It really did help with PACs and PACs one I got on the right form of it.

There are many methods to help with PACs and PVCs as you mentioned. Val salva along with what you mentioned. Most caridologist can train you on them to help stopped them when you feel them.

The only time PVCs bother me now is when I have two together. I have accepted going to have them and thus that reduces your stress and anxiety which also trigger them. So not only treat medically but mentally.