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Fears about ectopic heart beats and PSVT's. Doctor not concerned.
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@lindy9 I live in New Zealand and my goodness, prices are so high, it seems like every month things take another huge price jump. I was born and raised in America, I lived most of my adult life in Washington State, I met a Christian man on a Christian forum, we emailed and Skyped all the time then he came to America and we met. It hasn't been easy, I didn't realize what a huge culture difference there is between America and here. We have been married 13 years today. I get very homesick for home and my dear parents, they both are with the Lord now.
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@susieq1957
Hi. I'm sorry to hear your situation. I'll share my similar story. I started having some kind of odd arrhythmias right around Y2K and finally dragged in to see a doctor, who sent me to a cardiologist, who put me on a Holter monitor. "Something odd there, but I wouldn't go further with things at the moment", he said. Swell. But I did start taking blood pressure meds, and added a low dose beta blocker (atenolol) soon after. But the first time I took a 25mg pill I felt like it was far too strong, so talked to the doctor and tried cutting the (already tiny!) pill in half. That seemed to help, reduce arrhythmias and some occasional tachycardias. In retrospect I'd probably been living with some of these all my life. It was circa 2015 that the PACs and PVCs went crazy, but a series of doctors shrugged them off. I'm quite certain I was far above any 10% "burden rate" but, well, I hadn't fallen over or anything, and the doctors didn't see any problems. Oh yeah, had how many ECGs and wore three or four different kinds of Holter or event monitors. I was impressed positively by none of this. I spent a perfectly miserable year and then, well, things improved, I survived, but still had enough to scare me silly - except that I'd seen far worse. I will say that without the beta blocker I would never have made it. BTW chocolate has some natural beta blocker effects, of course it's also full of calories, but heck, see if it helps, maybe one ounce of dark chocolate should be enough and you either see improvement thirty minutes later, or you don't.
So I wouldn't drag you through this story unless it had something of a happy-ish ending. About four years ago now I was reviewing my nutrition profile and thought hey, I'm not getting much vitamin A, so I did two things, I started taking a generic multi-vitamin that contains A, and I started eating these little "baby carrots" (that they carve out of big carrots), as the kind of harmless experiment I always like doing. Lo and behold the arrhythmias which had been truly burdening my life for 25 years, faded out by about 95%. Coincidence? What can I say. One apocryphal story for you.
Best wishes.