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

Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Aug 8 12:48am | Replies (83)

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@mattb4295

Hello there. Thanks for reading again.

I previously made a post about four or five months ago, discussing my sudden onset of PVCs. They were very upsetting and troubling, and honestly felt like they were on the road to ruining my life. I realize that many people here would probably love to be in my shoes because I had a relatively low burden of around 500 a day but they were symptomatic and the ones I was having were quite distressing.

Please understand I mean no disrespect and completely empathize with those of you who have it way worse than me. My heart and thoughts are with you.

Anyhow, I had a gamut of testing, including Holter monitor stress, test bloodwork CT

All of it.

The doctor says I’m perfectly fine have no structural abnormalities and just suggested I continue on a magnesium supplement

Things had seemed to subside, and I feel like for a short time I have gotten my life back, but just the other night, at 8 o’clock at night, I felt “full“ like I needed to belch. It wasn’t an uncommon sensation, but I definitely felt that acid and burp type of feeling. Funny enough, I hadn’t eaten in 8 hours. Well, lo and behold, when I sat down and bent over to grab something off the floor, I started having consistent PVCs

I called my wife in the room and said watch this, using my Apple Watch to show her that bending over and straining would cause a bigeminal rhythm with PVCs every other beat and as soon as I would stop and sit up, they would stop

Of course, it was extremely upsetting, because I have never seen myself in that type of rhythm. I have no other symptoms. I did not get weak for lightheaded or have chest pain although I’m sure some of that might have come along if I had continued for more than about 30 seconds.

I tested this hypothesis three or four times with the same result each time and immediate alleviation upon sitting up. Of course, two hours later, when I no longer felt full, I could not reproduce this.

I sent a message to my electrophysiologist, and he basically just said yeah you are irritating something in there but it’s no big deal. I’m not sure that I want it to be my final answer. If something is being irritated, who’s to say it won’t get worse? If something is being irritated, isn’t there a way to stop irritating it?

I found an article about a surgeon who had positional PVC stimulation when operating in a certain body position, and he eventually had to have an ablation. Has anyone else had experience with this positional stimulation?

I am going to attach two strips that were taken just a minute or two apart

Thanks again.

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Leaning forward and straining

Hello
Iam going through the same thing ?
How are your pvc now ?

Hi there,

I am wondering if you've figured anything out with the positional nature of your pvcs. I seem to have them when sitting and when standing. I can get mine to go away completely by laying down and by sitting with my feet up underneath me. I look like a school kid when doing it at work but it's the only way to get them to stop.

You may of irritated the vagus nerve. It’s a long nerve that can play a roll with afib and pvcs. I’ve heard of people having problems like yours after they eat.
Good luck.