I have been having what doctors call palpitations every day

@tommy0624
Short answer, YES.

What I get is PVCs. When they are single I ignore them. When together cause me a lot of stress as I think I am going to go into VTAC and get shocked by my ICD/Pacemaker.

Palpitations are also called flutters. Check with your doctors. Most are common and not serious medical condtions but could be. My wife has no issues with her heart. She has a EF of 70 which is excellent. However she has heat palpitations. Her doctors think the cause is stress and axniety.

You mentioned freaking out which inferrs you are under high axniety stress. My EP told me that stress and anxiety is a known cause of AFIB and VFIB. Lessoning that stress/anxiety can help reduce PVCS and PACs.

Have you talked to your doctors about medicaions for anxiety stress? There are a lot of medications out there that can help along with lifestyle changes. Finding a exercise (with doctor approval) you like doing or a hobby you like doing. Just finds something that brings a smile to you.
Good luck!

Thanks for the reply but for some reason when I try to exercise and I get out of breath they happen more so really I'm afraid to exercise I've also noticed that I have been having alot of muscle twitches all over the left side of my body with aches and I'm thinking that it is related I had an echo done and wore a Holter monitor but they said it came back normal when I get these palpitations they happen with no warning I'm fine one minute then all of a sudden it feels like my heart is out of rhythm and that's when I freak out.

Could be anxiety or panic attack I've had them before and was told everything was normal but right now I don't have the palpitations yet right now they tell me I have AFib.

The heart gets old. For some, the muscle gets deposits of fibrosis and collagen, which stiffen up the walls of the heart and the heart becomes less efficient at filling itself for each pumping stroke. Sometimes this leads to mitral valve prolapse and even more fibrosis. Often this ends up causing PACs (premature atrial complexes) or AF (atrial fibrillation).

That's one cause, and it's a growing concern for the medical establishment as the western industrialized world moves through the time of the Baby Boomer Bulge. The other cause, still part of the normal aging process, is ischemia...lack of supply of oxygen to the heart muscle. This is due to deposition of atherosclerotic plaque. If there's enough plaque, the amount of blood squeezed through the narrow hole that's left inside the major blood vessels feeding the heart itself, is too little....ischemia. If you say that you can't do much physically any more, it suggests to me that you might need diagnostic imaging to rule out ischemia. Your heart doesn't seem to like too much activity because it can't meet the demands you place on it when you move around or lift too much.

Again, this is my inexpert guess....it's only a guess. An expert cardiologist will KNOW in short order once you see such a person and submit to his/her requests for diagnostic methods such as echocardiogram and MRI or a nuclear stress test with CT scan.

Don't panic yet, because there's time, but don't go six week thinking about it either...call tomorrow!!

To be honest it feels like a muscle twitch just in my heart you know how sometimes you get like a twitchy eyelid that's exactly what it feels like just in my heart

I had an ablation 4 years ago for afib and have been having a lot of short runs of fast heartbeats and occasionally irregular heartbeats. I was seen in the ER for irregular heartbeats and tremors recently. All tests were normal except my TSH was very elevated. What could be the cause of this?

@tommy0624
Why so important to check with doctor regarding any exercise program. Does easy walking cause this also? If so make sure you inform your cardiologist.

I have a EF of 25. That is very low. But the right side of my ventricles is normal with normal EF. The right side supplies blood to heart and thus I don't have the usually problems with a low EF that most do.

Do you have any hobbies? Or hobbies you might like to try? They can go a long way to reducing stress and anxiety.

I have the palpitations all the time. The ones that bother me are the PVCs that happen right after each other. That scares me as I think I will be getting a shock (I have a ICD/Pacemaker).

I just had an ICD shock on 24th. I was trying to diet high protein and also has some stomach issues and think my electrolytes got way off and caused it. When I go to ER for ICD shocks the first thing they check is electrolytes.

Has your doctors looked at the medications you are on that may be contributing to what you are feeling? How about food you eat, what you drink, allergies, and of couse anxiety/stress you are under. If not asked them to address if can be contributing and seek what you can do or them do to lesson them.
Good luck!

I had a similar situation, but the irregular heartbeats started about 2 years after my ablation. it turned out to be that my mitral valve regurgitation was increasing and it was time for mitral valve repair. Are docs monitoring any regurgitation? I had been getting annual echo cardiograms so that was something they were monitoring. Wishing you all the best is sorting it out.