Good morning lovely people, I hope you’re all hunky dory, just a very quick update, my pvcs have literally been non existent since this amazing procedure, my heart can still be grumpy and throw a few ectopics out and some few second runs of fast heart rate (six ectopics in 24hrs on last tape). I have to speak to my ep in March next year. My blood pressure is steadily coming down and after my previous two afib ablations I know I’m still early in recovery. I wish you all the very best
Alex
It's good to hear that you're doing so well, long may that continue.
Thank you, how are you doing?
I'm well thank you.
Great news!
so pleased for you 😁
Thank you, how are you doing?
I’m doing ok thanks most of time. Had to give up my stressful job though. Any stress in my life sets them off but can cope when infrequent. Daily stress reduced my quality of life greatly due to the atrial and ventricular ectopics so I had to do best thing for my health.
Good for you 👌🏻 I hope you get the help you need with your ectopics.
Hi there, many thanks for your update regarding PVC ablation. I'm sure many members have this procedure but few seem to feedback to the community. However I'm a little confused because your statement seems a bit self-contradicting. You said "my pvcs have literally been non existent" but then you said "my heart can still be grumpy and throw a few ectopics out and some few second runs of fast heart rate". So which is it? "A few second runs of fast heartbeat" does not sound good to me. Are you talking about non-sustained ventricular tachycardia or something? I would not expect that after a successful pvc ablation. Have you been given an explanation for this?
6 ectopics in 24 hours are rather fewer than you'd expect to see in the majority of the general population. Short runs of tachy are irrelevant too. It would appear, initially at least, that Achant1 has gone from a constantly troubling, symptomatic arrythmia burden to a much more comfortable state of being - a very desirable outcome I'd say!
Yeah, I understand what you are saying but how often are these short runs of tachy occurring? Why are they occurring? I'm not sure they are irrelevant. Ventricular tachycardia (if that's what it is) is never irrelevant. PVCs are the mechanism behind VT so that could indicate PVCs have not really been eliminated. I still don't understand why the post seemed to contradict himself.
He did contradict himself in as much as he seems to differentiate between pvcs and ectopics, yes. From the post I'm assuming his ablation was very recent, and he's still very much in the blanking period, during which some cardiac grumpiness is very common.
I had an Ablation over two years ago for AF; still have ectopics and the odd short burst of tachy but frankly I don't care about those, they are easily ignored!
You mentioned the blanking period. That had crossed my mind and when he had the ablation would have been my next question because he doesn't say. That might be a plausible explanation for the heart behaviours he describes.
I think the answer is in the title of the Post viz. Six months post pvc ablation.
Duh! Thanks for stating what should have been obvious. I can only put it down to early morning and brain not fully woken up.
I would have thought that the heart would have stabilized by now so why the tachycardia?
Yes, I was interested in answers to your concerns as well. All unfamiliar to me.
I had zero pvcs on my 24hr tape, just 6 ectopic beats which I assume were atrial. When I say runs of fast heart rate I mean no more than two seconds so perhaps a few atrial ectopics. I think I may need another ablation for af as it was induced during ablation.
OK I understand now. You think they were PACs. Did you have AF before or are you saying AF was caused by the PVC ablation?
I’ve had two previous ablations for afib. The catheters entering my right ventricular outflow tract kicked my afib off and I had to have four cardioversions before they could ablate.
Also one of the tiny flutters was caught on my 24hr tape and my ep said there was nothing to worry about.
I've had 3 ablations for persistent PVC's but they determined mine were exercise induced. Each seemed successful in knocking them way down - never out- and I'd resume rather strenuous cycling after 3-6 months only to have them come roaring back. My EP said I had to stop the strenuous exercise- tougher to do than you'd think after running and cycling most of my life- and to "keep me safe" he implanted an ICD. Heart seems better now but they still keep a close eye on things. Echo again tomorrow!
Hi there, how is life with the ICD? I understand that initially they can be uncomfortable. Do you always feel it or do you sometimes forget it's there?
it’s great to see some positive news! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for posting - I had no idea you could have an ablation for PVCs. Good to have the info!
is ablation for PVC different/less risky/more successful to ablation for AF, I have PVC and some tachycardia but havnt caught AF so far, is a simplistic idea that I could get rid of the PVC and tachycardia and go back to social drinking
that is nice to hear.💪
Six months post ablation
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