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Sigh. PVC’s have me desperate. How to cope?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Nov 30 1:57pm | Replies (149)Comment receiving replies
@davidew my first suggestion would be to reduce that beta blocker dose. I was prescribed beta blocker mainly to treat the arrhythmia and also to help on high blood pressure, but even my first 25mg was way too high a dose IMHO, and I worked with the doctor who said I could cut it in half. It is likely enough (again IMHO) that whatever it's going to do about arrhythmia, it may well do on a very small dose. And I suppose different people react differently to standard doses.
Once you're on a high dose it may be difficult to cut down, check with your doctor and plan to do it over some period of time, gradually.
The tendency of many/most doctors may be to overdose on this stuff, I was lucky to get a doctor who started with a low dose - and even that was too much for me!
I guess I'll repeat one other thing, I know with these problems it's hard to think about exercise, but are you doing any? Just a walk for a mile or so is enough time for other circuits in your system to adjust your heart rhythms, and I've often found it immediately helpful at the moment and perhaps for the rest of the day. But when things are at their worst this may not be advisable or even possible! Have to balance all these factors.
Hope that helps.
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I just reread my remarks back to you and I apologize for all the missed it spelling and misuse of words as I am speaking this text to my phone and obviously it can't hear very well.
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Thank you for your reply. I'll begin with exercise, I've been wanting to do some walking or punch on my heavy bag but I'm not sure at this point if that would be wise, I intend to ask my doctor about that Monday morning. I'm going to give him an unexpected visit Monday as my PVCs are absolutely no better and he never gave me any additional instructions on what to do while waiting for a referral to Cleveland clinic. Intend to ask him about trying me on another medication until I can get this remedied for good through an ablation. I had cut back on the beta blocker that I've been prescribed to a quarter of a pill which would be 5 mg but this morning the PVCs were so troubling that I took a whole one and I've been absolutely wiped out all day comment to the point of even going to the emergency room in hopes of there being a cardiologist on call when I got there but as of yet I'm not done that. Very very weak and it's really affecting my nerves now which I pride myself on not worrying about much at all. Again, thank you for your reply. I guess at this point I'm just trying to figure out if this amount of PVCs is going to damage my heart before I can get the ablation done, these began 4 weeks yesterday and haven't let up.