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Sigh. PVC’s have me desperate. How to cope?
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I hear you. How are we supposed to cope? I’ve gone from a few PVCs a day to 100s and I can’t see how I can live if this is the way things are to be. I’m looking at catheter ablation now.
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Julianas, I posted a reply to mattb4295.
The 100s you mentioned having a day is not extreme. I have thousands of them a day. It is important to know they are normal and common. Ablation will not stop all of them just the one area causing some of them. Stress and worrying about them makes them worse along with things like caffeine and high stress jobs or life occurrences.
As I mentioned to mattb4296 make sure you PCP, cardiologist, EP are aware of your stress and anxiety over this and see if they recommend using a anxiety medication which will help reduce your anxiety. I use a anxiety mediation that my psychiatric medication specialist prescribed and worked with my other providers as a team approach to my PVCs. My EP recently put me on a low dose medication to help reduce the PVCs medication wise. So you can see a team approach to this is important to not only treat the PVCs but you anxiety and stress over them. .
Good luck,