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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.