I suffer from anxiety/depression pvcs and from what I think is NSVT. I’ve been diagnosed with pvcs. I’ve had pvcs on and off for over 10 years and they are back and far worse from before. I get the occasional hard thud and lately run of fast pvcs witch drive my anxiety up the roof. EKG,chest X-ray, echocardiogram and blood work all come back normal. ER dr, gp and cardiologist have all said I’m ok but my symptoms say different. No matter what I try to do to get my mind off of them, nothing works I’ll get them and all over again I’m in that Vicious cycle. What blows my mind is that I can be perfectly fine sitting at home watching a game and all of a sudden a run off pvcs.
Anyone else with these issues that can shed some light.
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Yes I have and they come out of he blue. They are horrible things and make us heart focused. I have yet to find anything which eases them but I know for sure in my case that stomach issues and stress are my triggers. Perhaps you can find your triggers and if possible lessen them somehow. If you are told they are nothing to be concerned about that helps somewhat but certainly not totally as they arecdemonsctk cope with. Best wishes.
Stomach , stress and anxiety are my triggers too 😔 I figure that much n maybe acid reflex..plz let me knw wen u find something to stop them.. I'm having them everyday for more than 20 times
I was in the ER with bad pvcs yesterday and was prescribed metropolol and it worked to calm the symptoms. I felt calm and relaxed and I didn’t feel my heart beat forcefully like usual. They prescribed 25mg but the Dr said just to take half in the am and half in the pm
If you've had PVCs for 10 years, is something happening recently that is different from what's been going on over the last 10 years? I'm assuming the answer is yes otherwise you probably wouldn't have posted here right? I have had PVCs and PACs for several years as well, and I remember clearly going through what you are going through right now. One thing that is universally agreed-upon is that anxiety itself can cause PVCs. And when you suffer from anxiety, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy with PVCs. Your anxiety fuels the PVCs and the PVCs are fueled by the anxiety in a vicious downward spiral. This is why you can be sitting watching TV where your mind is off of something and they don't bother you at all, and then all the sudden they just appear. For me, the issue was not anxiety but what I think has always been an electrolyte imbalance. Your electrolytes are your sodium, magnesium, and potassium in your body. You were no doubt checked for these levels every time you went in to the hospital to have your heart checked because of your PVCs. In almost all cases, those electrolyte results come back normal. What I discovered with me, is that the hospital standards of what is normal for those 3 minerals is not what is normal for me. After several years, I think I've traced my triggering to a lack of potassium. I did months of reading, and in another form I kept seeing people referring to low-sodium V8 juice. Low-sodium V8 juice contains a large amount of potassium in just a single glass. It may not work for you, but it has literally changed my life. Whenever I feel a few PVCs coming on, I go to the large jug of low-sodium V8 juice I have in the refrigerator and pour myself a big glass, about 16 oz of it, and just sip it over the course of several minutes. In almost all cases they're almost completely gone within 20 minutes and that is usually what helps me. Prior to trying this, I was taking fairly high doses of magnesium which I think actually did me more harm than good. Other people swear by magnesium to help keep their PVCs at bay, and most seem to agree that magnesium taurate at about a 125 mg dose helps them tremendously. I was taking the wrong magnesium and I was taking it at very high amounts and I think that caused a lot of PVCs for me. Every single person is different and what works for one isn't going to work for someone else. It's a long process of trying to figure out what causes them to appear and what helps them to go away. When you're dealing with anxiety on top of all of this, I know it can be a struggle. But maybe try the low sodium V8 juice. I know it sounds crazy, I thought it was as well, but I was in the grocery store and saw it on the shelf one day do I got a great big jug for about $2.50 so I thought what the hell I'll give it a try. It may not work for you, and if not, you've at least got your dose of vegetables for a couple of days. But it might help. Other things that I think have helped me tremendously to reduce them is to get proper sleep hygiene as they call it today. That means trying to get it at least 8 hours of quality sleep every night and preferably going to sleep at the same time each night if you can, without things that will interfere with a good sleep like watching TV before bed or being on your phone, that type of thing. If you have diabetes or high blood pressure, keeping them under control will also usually help reduce PVCs. The key is to try to find out what triggers them, if it's something more than just your anxiety. I know they feel horrible when they occur, and even though I've had them for years I know that every time I get them I think I'm going to die in 10 seconds, I'm still here, and there are many people who have been suffering with them for decades that are still around. The only time that PVCs are dangerous to you, in the research that I've done at least anyway, and you should confirm this with your doctor or cardiologist anyway, is when you have other heart disease issues or your heart is not functioning as it should. An echocardiogram, which is basically an ultrasound of your heart, will tell the doctor if it's structurally sound. If it is, then they will tell you the PVCs pose you no or very little risk in your life. If you haven't had an echocardiogram, try to get one, and if it's normal, it should give you some further peace of mind which might alleviate some of your anxiety. I know it's easier said than done, but try to remember that you are not alone with this. Everyone gets PVCs at some point in their life, granted not as frequently as you are I I'm sure, but as long as your heart is structurally sound and you don't have any underlying heart disease, you should feel confident that you're going to be okay. And if you can tell yourself that and believe it, it will probably go a long way into them going away on their own. One of the ways that you can tell if anxiety is a partial cause, is if you notice them as much during the day when you're at work or school or involved in whatever it is you do all day, as much as you do when you're lying in bed at night when the lights are off. Chances are they may just be there in both scenarios, but you're not noticing them during the day because your mind is elsewhere. You're not worried about them, and they are less frequent or they're not there at all. But when you go to bed at night and it's quiet and dark and you can feel and hear your heart pounding, it just compounds the issue and makes things worse. But maybe try low-sodium V8 juice. Go buy a jug, and the next time you feel some PVCs coming on go take a glass of that, and see if you're feeling any better about 20 minutes later. Good luck.
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