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Sigh. PVC’s have me desperate. How to cope?

Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Nov 30 1:57pm | Replies (149)

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@littlebitshappy3 I recently had PVCs coming every 3rd beat. They lasted a couple of days like that. My EP had suggested Magnesium and put me on a low dose beta blocker. I wondered if the beta blocker was causing the PVCs? So stopped taking it? It was an awful two days with them coming that often. Heart has settled down now. Going back to doctor in a few weeks and will see what he says.

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@383peeler When I started with PVCs and PACs magnesium helped, some, and low dose beta blocker (atenolol) helped, more. Doctors were no help at all but I have to say they were right because I'm still here 10++ years later.
Eventually I stumbled on just normalizing my diet to cover a couple of nutrients I seemed low on and my symptoms were reduced dramatically. Or else it was coincidence. Been coming back a little just recently.
I appreciate hearing your story (and others), to know how common this may really be.
Of course various sorts of stress or activity can aggravate - once I started with these assorted arrhythmias I pretty much cut out anything involving high levels of exertion, I've even declined a stress-echo (and that was twenty years ago now!). However I do still stay frequently active at lower exertion levels and even find that often helps, at modest levels a different clock seems to take over heartbeat rhythms.
In past times the arrhythmias were such that I cut these short, but I haven't had that occur in 5-6 years now.

One more thing I'd like to try (do) is lose twenty pounds, see if that helps, I assume it would!