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Fears about ectopic heart beats and PSVT's. Doctor not concerned.
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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.
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@carbcounter That's wonderful that the Vitamin A has helped you so much. I take a real good brand of Vitamin A but have not noticed it helping with the ectopic heart beats. To be honest, I have tried every recommended vitamin, mineral and herb, nothing helps, it's so discouraging. The ones that feel the scariest are the ones when my heart is beating slow in the low 60's, I hate those. They also act up after drinking water, I don't drink it cold as I know that can be a catalyst. I dread eating because it causes them as does bending over walking, you name it. They have ruined my life. I used to love taking walks thru our lovely park that we live next too, but now I get panicky because the walk brings them on. I do have a hiatal hernia, but I have had it for years and my heart never acted up as badly as it has the last few years.
This week has been the worst so far. My husband is going to attend a two day Christian man's fellowship camp Friday, Friday night and all day Saturday, he'll be back Saturday late. I have begged him not to go, that I am terrified of being alone should the heart beats get worse. At first he said he would not go, but he then told our pastor at church how he wanted to go and I wouldn't let him. The pastor prayed for him, I heard it and the pastor saw me, he asked if prayers brought me peace, I was so angry at my husband doing this, I said they didn't, that at this time I needed him home, but the pastor took my husband's side and then prayed for me. I was so angry and scared, I didn't even listen to his prayer and I normally do. Well, I felt guilty and the next day told my husband he could go. He was so excited, he immediately signed up, it hurt my feelings so badly, he didn't even say he would stay home if I was really feeling badly that day. He says that my skips will get worse because I don't want him to go. That's so cruel for him to say, and not true, I would give anything to feel well and not be scared that he's going to be gone for a couple of days. I am even more dizzy than usual. I am so scared.
As I said in my original post, I am from America, I never had issues this badly there, it all started when I married him (we met on a Christian forum, we Skyped a lot and emailed. He came to America, we met, got married shortly after and I flew back to New Zealand with him) To be honest, I haven't been happy since moving here 13 years ago. The marriage has had some very rough times and I miss home even though I have no one back there but one Aunt who isn't well.
Anyway, sorry to bore you, I just wanted to share a few things.