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Sigh. PVC’s have me desperate. How to cope?
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Hi Matt welcome to connect and I feel your concern. It's funny how doctors like to say it's not a problem and medically that's true. But I have also had them at different times with my heart rhythm issues. For me when it got bad I finally decided to talk to my doctors about a anti-anxiety pill.
The unfortunate part about these types of problems is anxiety can actually make the problem worse. Kind-of a catch 22. I was told to actually yell at
Myself to convince myself it was not going to hurt me. A counselor told me that once. If you would have pulled up beside me at a light you might see me all alone yelling at my self. But it did work sometimes. The other method I would use is what they actually tell people who are of risk of a heart arrhythmia or attack which I also had.
It's similar to what pregnant ladies were taught to help strengthen their pelvic floor muscles. Squeeze real hard like your going to the bathroom and keep repeating it. Also coughing very rigorously also. It acts on the heart to kind-of reset it, as funny as that sounds that actually got me out of some real issues with VT arrhythmias. So I hope maybe some of those tricks work and ask you doctors for maybe a light anti-anxiety pill I took them for a while and they do work. Let me know if any of those work.
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Here is some ideas to live with PVCs. I have PVCs four or more times a minute. That is considered occasional PVCs. No sweat those. Every human gets them. Sometimes at home while sitting in my chair reading a book I get a spate of them. Then use a moblie ekg device to check them. If you have more than 4 send the resukt to your cardiologist team to have thwm evaluated. Sometimes at Cardio Rehab, while exercising on the monitor, I get PVCs frequently like 8-10 a minute. Frequent is not life threatening. I can sometimes feel them and other times not. I have a cardio KardioMobile ekg monitor for use at home or elsewhere. Get one. Take control of your PVC monitoring and in a few weeks you will know your heart much better and also learn what is normal for your heart. Best 99.00 bucks I ever spent.
I was just taken off Flecainide after having an ablation procedure April 16, 2024. Within a day and a half I started experiencing a lot of PVC’s. Every 2/3/4 or 5 beats. Tried to get my electrophysiology office staff to call me back, but it was Friday afternoon so no one returned my call. Short of going to the ER I’m stuck waiting until Monday hoping someone returns my call.
Never had PVC’s like this in my life. Scary actually. Left an email an email for my regular cardiologist but the chances of getting an early appointment with him is probably slim to none. So much of the time patients are pushed into an expensive, time consuming ER visit, because searching out an available cardiologist within a short period of time is near impossible.
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Thank you for your help! Yeah, I’m a 12-year paramedic so I know about vagal maneuvers but mine are so sporadic, I’m not sure it will help.
Pills are out, although I’m curious about swapping from BB to CCB.
I’ve run the gamut of possibilities but this has gotten out of hand. Ugh!!!