palpitations after covid booster shot

Posted by nevets @nevets, Feb 7 2:55pm

I've been noticing an uptick in the frequency of palpitations since I got my covid booster shot two days ago. My kardia device identifies them as PVCs. I'm writing this off as a side effect of the vaccine, along with feeling mild flu symptoms, and hoping it will soon pass. Anyone else have a similar experience? Thanks.

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If one considers the "side effects" of getting Covid, like having to be hospitalized and possibly dying, any effects from the vaccine are trivial by comparison.

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@calson Wish could agree that an implanted defibrillator for NSVT to protect against sudden death is trivial.

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Yes, similar reaction in the past from COVID shot. Seemed to last a few weeks, then went away- best of luck! Jim B

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Yes, similar reaction in the past from COVID shot. Seemed to last a few weeks, then went away- best of luck! Jim B

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Well good know that the reaction passed. I'm starting to feel better, 5 days out from my vaccination. Thanks!

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I am a 73 year old female. My frequent PACs began a few months after my first series of Covid vaccines. I did not associate them to the vaccines at the time. I actually got covid for the first time last year and my PACs worsened for 2-3 months after. My cardiologist said that was not unusual. He had seen this in many of his patients. Luckily they subsided until 3 weeks after my covid vaccine this past December. They lasted for about a month.
Thankfully the worst has subsided. I am on 240 mgER Diltiazem which has helped.

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Yes. I developed frequent palpitations (diagnosed as PACs, as well as some SVTs) for the first time very shortly after my 2nd dose of the Pfizer Covid vax. They got better over time, until I got Covid itself several years later, when they came back for several months. Then a year after that, I got some form of a virus (tested negative for Covid, but at that point the over the counter tests didn't seem to be picking it up reliably, so who knows, it may have been) and they came back with a vengeance, nonstop, for many months. Thankfully they have settled down now...I still have them, but not nearly as often. But until that vaccine, I'd never had any before.

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