Pvc after heart attack

[Tee12]

Hi,

I have read manjority of the comments which are all helpfull. Thank you all for sharing your experiences.

I am worried about my dad. Who had sufferes heart attack in turkey about 2 months ago. He had 2 stents placed. One of the arteries(i think) had 90% blockage. After the stents he now has frequent premature vebtricular contraction(pvc) with long QT interval. Has anyone else had this problem before after stents placed?

Yesterday he said he played with the granddaughter and he felt so tired and was sleeping on the sofa. I have measured the bp and it was 95/65 and heart beat was around 60. He is on ramipril metoprolol statin ticagleor aspirin. He is waiting for an appointment from cardiologist in uk.

Has anyone suffered from pvc after stents? How long did they recover in?

When i read published articles it gives me anxiety because it says it increases mortality etc. Searching Google nearly gives me heart attack.

Can someone help please? Am I overreacting? Or something is wrong and I am not reacting. I dont know.

Will appreciate your help.

Thank you

[Midgeymoo17]

I have had PVC‘s for years but never had tiredness from them- maybe the tiredness was the HA?

I think your reaction to google was maybe a little OTT but have also read them a while back.

PVCs are a difficult thing because they are quite often found in the general population and are in themselves not dangerous.

However, as you say the link with mortality- if I rember what I read correctly when and how regularly PVCs occurred were significant factors in determining whether they are benign or a little more sinister- emphasis on the word little.

An example (if I rember it correctly) found that PVCs occurring during exercise had little to no effect on mortality- what did have an affect on mortality was if the patient experienced an abnormallly large number of PVCs while recovering from exercise. The time and number is here significant and can only be evaluated by a cardiologist.

I would raise it with the cardio when you get there but in the meantime I suspect there is nothing worth panicking about.

[Tee12 in reply to Midgeymoo17]

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes I think its the words such as 'little, slight, rarely' is what I skip and think that it will happen. As far as I know my dads pvs are bigeminy. It is very frequent. He gets dizzy when he walks alot or gets tired. Maybe its the bp lowering meds. In turkey they couldnt get holter monitor or mri etc. I am just hoping they will send a cardiologist appointment asap so that i can at least get some of my questions answered. Have you tried magnesium supplements before? I have read they are good for pvc's but didnt want to give it to my dad without asking the dr.