Palps/Bending over

[finetilthree]

Does anyone know why bending over at the waist brings on PACs or PVCs?  Seems like almost every time I bend over to pick up something off the floor I get a burst of PACs when I stand up.  It is freaking me out.  Also happens if I sit or lay down too quickly.  Please help.

[summora416]

I know exactly what you re going thru. I too have a lot of irregular heart beats..It is maddening and very depressing to say the least. I have aged 5 years in the past few months and some day s I cry a lot. Unless you have been thru it, you can not imagine the anxiety it causes. My doctor put me on Metoprolol Tartrate 25mg twice daily but because my heart rate and b/p are low I am afraid to take as directed. I am waiting til I get the events monitor off and see it the doctor wants to do a cardiac ablation. I feel my life will never be the same again..I pray and will wait for the outcome.

[wdtony]

I have PVC's and PAC's and they actually hurt. Feels like a muscle spasm. I get them a lot when sitting a certain way or bending at the waist. There has to be a physical reason why this aggravates the heart's electrical system.

Finally caught these arrhythmias on a 48 hour holter and found 83 PAC's, 14 PVC's and several episodes of PSVT.

Sometimes I wake up in full 150bpm tachycardia and sometimes I feel a flutter that lasts for maybe 10 to 15 seconds and during that time, I have no pulse. That last "no pulse" thing and the tachycardia wasn't recorded on the holter. So I am worried that my cardiologist might not think all of these different abnormal rhythms are serious when they might be.

Sometimes I feel them and they aren't too bad but other times I feel like I could die. The heartbeat feels like shoes in a dryer sometimes and scares the begeezes out of me.

On top of everything I suspect that sometimes these sensations in my chest may not be a palpitation, but may be gastric related or an esophogeal spasm... or even an intercostal muscle spasm. BUT I can't determine or record what is happening because I can't find an ECG monitor to record my own heart waveforms.

Does anyone know of a good 24 hour ambulatory ECG that I could buy for personal monitoring? I have had these weird episodes for 2.5 years and if I could actually see the waveform I would be much less anxious. And I could know more about my body.

[Atlkitty]

I have been feeling all these exact same symptoms and they are really scary have you gotten any further information on what yours might be?? I would love to hear more. It is so strange when I bend over or squat down I can feel this weird sensation in my chest and heart and I just don't know what this could be:(( it is really so scary

[Love_Heals]

Have you had a sleep study done? The fact you wake up with SVT tells me you may have sleep apnea (obstructive or central). If you stop breathing while sleeping, your heart rate slows at first, then gets very fast. If you haven't had a sleep study done, get one. Otherwise, I know people who have lived decades without a pacemaker and get 5,000-10,000 PVCs a day. You're fine. I too have intermittent PVCs, and have for many years. The only thing I can say, is for anyone with PVCs to look into CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) from a licensed counselor (not a psychiatrist or shrink, although they know how to do it as well). It took me going through that therapy to know that every PVC I've had I didn't die, and I am fine. Although they are scary when they happen, you've been here before and you will be here after.

[peachiepie8]

Hi  I wanted to add that I just had a 24 hr halter & It showed that I am having PVC's 14% of the time .. all day & all night.  I go to a cardiologist next Monday to see what that means .. but I heard it was btwn Mild & Moderate PVC's ..  I am also really concerned as to what that many might imply about my heart's health. ... Any comments are welcome

[Nile13]

Wow many are in the same boat as me. It comes on when I bend to pick something up, sit too quickly etc. I trace mine back to ever since I became a vegan. Lack of Iodine can cause low thyroid. So Hyperthyroid. Which can then cause fibroids. Also excess estrogen. So it happens to a lot of women who have a hormonal imbalance. Conventional Doctors just say its normal or just say hormone but you never get the reason as to how the hormones play a part. Please get your Thyroid checked. I am not talking from a conventional doctor. Visit a naturopath. Have a total hormone test done. Other things like low iron and poor circulation are causes. So check those things out. I just started coffee enemas which clear the liver of excess estrogen which in turn should shrink fibroids. Been doing this for 2 months now. The PVCs are not gone but lets just say they decreased slightly. They come more right before my cycle so that just tells you it  has some connection to hormones. I also take wheatgrass daily. I also take Norwegion kelp as  my form of Iodine for a low thyroid.

[ambermark428]

Hello! I felt the same feeling about my heart and the amount of palpataions...I have outburst of Pac's (diagnosed by cardiologist) randomly but notice every 6 months or so, I get flareups for 4 to 6 days straight every 3 to 20 seconds apart! I can't sleep when this happens but I tell myself I'm still alive and I have had this for 3 years now (about).  now hen I lean forward to pick up after kids or work, my heart started fluttering.... I also started to have really fast heart rate around 1 am that wake me up afterI either drink wine or tequilla.  I am 36 and never had this problem...especially the fast beats. And it's not the drinks that did this to me, it is the weird heart reactions I am living with now.

[Holdingback]

I have the same problem. Sometimes at night I can't lay down flat, it take several hours. I feel a jolt go through my heart and lots of skips, almost like it stops sometimes when I am trying to ease down to lay. When I sit back up it is better. The skipping is sometimes worse when I am really tierd. Most of the time when I try and pick something up off the floor it also happens. I have had this off and on for about 2 years. My heart always checks out fine. I am learning to live with it. I had a cardioligist tell me he had never heard of this at all ever. I am glad to hear I am not the only one that has this problem.