Long Term PAC and PVC Suffer. Need your support and guidance

What is EF? Do you take supplements?what foods trigger your PVCs?
Thanks

@rr1967
Have you had a echocardiogram? It can check the EF of your heart. That would be good to know as a good EF should reduce your stress.

I have tons of PVCs. They cause me a lot of stress which causes more PVCs. Was this relayed to you? Stress as well as eating can trigger PVCs. I find if I exercise my PVCs go down.

I have a ICD/Pacemaker since 2006. I have many shocks but now I like having the ICD/Pacemaker in my chest as without it I would not be typing this. I do not have exercise restrictions the opposite to keep the heart as strong as can be. I take Entresto and Carvididol. Two great heart medications that can really helped those with HF.

Too long I went not treating my HP and I think over the decades caused the HF. My BP now is the opposite as is usally around 100-60. So a little dizzy if stand up to soon. But deal with it to reduct pressure on heart if you have high BP.

Yes Enalapril Ace Inhibitor but no High blood pressure medicine. Have naturally low BP..

Look into taurine and L-arginine, along with magnesium. They have helped me immensely with PVCs and PACs. But do your own home work.

Do you take any blood pressure medicine or heart medication? I take a product called heart calm. 300mg of magnesium made up of taurine,malate,glycine. Just started.

Magnesium is the key to PVCs. Men need 420 mcg per day. Best taken as food as supplements are roughly absorbed at roughly 10% of the mcg on the label.
I feel PVCs. It may be normal but sometimes it is not OK in my case.

To get enough magnesium I do this everyday. Breakfast: home made oatmeal or whole wheat breakfast biscuits, 1\4 cup walnuts, 1\8 cup almonds 1\8 cup raisins or dried tart cherries and 1-2 teaspoons honey. 8-10 ounces coffee. I use oat milk on the biscuit days as I am allergic to dairy products. Either breakfast takes 7 minutes to make. The magnesium load in the morning carries me all day long.

PVCs come from the lower chambers of the heart. PACs come from the upper.

You might benefit from seeing an electrophysiologist ( specialized cardiologist). A friend had high burden of pvc’s , 25%, and the EP said since they were coming from the upper chambers of the heart, they were doing no harm.

Hello, I’m a 53 yo woman in pretty good health—on the outside with normal BMI. I don’t have high blood pressure. Never smoker, exercise a bit less than I should lately, cholesterol is borderline, and I have about one drink a month. I do have autoimmune problems and have taken Plaquenil and colchicine briefly, but I’m currently not taking anything. I also had a long wedge resection surgery in the summer for a lung nodule (benign, thankfully). That was the most significant surgery I’ve undergone with the exception of a C-section delivery about 15 years ago.

However, since February 4, I’ve had a heavy burden of PVCs at 23.8% that I have never ever had in my life before. They put me on atenolol which made it worse. They also prescribed flecainide and then told me not to take it after I told him that my BP and my heart rate were really low with the other medication. I go to see an EP in two weeks. Echo was done and came out normal.
I just want to let you know that, even though my PVCs are continuing and it’s driving me, absolutely crazy, I have read from a lot of people that you will be OK and I believe that. It’s very common, and it sounds like if they continue to increase that eventually people get the catheter ablation— if they can’t tolerate the medicine. So, I looked up catheter ablation and it looks like a lot of people who seem healthy on the outside have some kind of problem with their electrical functioning in their heart. My echo was completely normal, but I had PVCs the whole time they were doing it.
Have you thought about that heart calm supplement ? I’m going to give it a try because at this time I just want them to stop so bad and the ingredients look healthy.

Although I know, these PVC’s are incredibly frustrating, it sounds like they will not treat them until they reach a higher level or a higher burden.

In the meantime, I know that when I think of being healthy, I think of vigorous exercise and eating healthy with low-fat diet, lots of , veggies, etc. However, I think that I need to start reconceptualizing my vision of health to make sure that it not only includes exercise and eating right, but that I also do things like yoga and making sure that I can get enough rest.
I think that one I was growing up the importance of rest and relaxation was not stressed enough.
I wish you luck and hope your PVC burden does not get any higher. 😌

Thank you. I missed an Afib event on the monitor because I took it off because my sternum was so inflamed from the adhesive. A week after turning in the monitor I had Afib and went to urgent care so I could get a reading for my doc. Lucky me LOL I converted while walking into the place. Seeing that my Afib events are so fleeting EP suggested KARDIA so I can catch an event. Even without a subscription it tells me when I am in sinus and "possible Afib". Then I send it on to my EP who will be reading that. I just started KARDIA the past few days. We/He and his NP need to parse out the A-fib from the PACs, PVCs b/c if he does an ablation the Afib ablation is done on one side of the heart and the PACs etc ablation is done on the other side of the heart. I watch the monitor on the phone and look at the heart icon and can see rapid double beasts. Regularly I get a reading I get a reading called unclassified which I believe is a manifestation of numerous rapid PACs/PVCs. I also get reading that say too much interference and I believe that is lots a lots PACs and even KARDIA can't or will not figure it out unless I $ up some more chump change. From what I read long term prognosis from Covid heart arrhythmias are good. It may take year or more. Antioxidents specifically may help improve the out come.