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Can PAC/PVC occur weeks after stress and go away after meals? [LONG POST]

Hello, I've decided to post here because I've must have read thousands of comments and questions. Watched hundreds of videos but I am curious about this, so I said to myself what do I have to lose, might as well post my issue, this might be a longer post but I will write all the events regarding my ectopics and I will try to be as specific as possible, I really hope these are just benign ectopics, PVCs or PACs.

Back in May I've had a stressful month and some skipped heart beats occured, I've had 2-4 a day total. It wasn't too bad, I was drinking a few cups of hawthorn tea per day and it was gone in like 2-3 weeks.I went to my doctor for this and she did an ECG and blood tests and none of my skips were sadly recorded. Everything was fine, my cholesterol was higher 6.6 at that time. I was still losing weight at that point. We took blood again in mid July and it was down to 6.0 probably less right now. I also have to mention my weight used to be 109 kg / 240 pounds and I got it down to 88 kg / 195 pounds with healthier food and smaller portions way more vegetables and fruit and also abandoned all carbonated drinks I'm now on water, it took me 6 months to achieve this, my height is 177 cm which is 5'8. It wasn't easy but it wasn't that hard either but I'm happy with the results.This was my new year's resolution thing, started on January and stopped in June. Now I'm just eating healthy, sometimes I break my own rule and eat some occasional fast food.

From mid august to mid september there was another very stressful situation but the ectopics or skipped beats didn't come back at that time. A week after the regular 3-4 ectopics per day there was yet another stressful situation and it made my ectopics worse a week later, it went from 4 skips a day to like a 50-100 a day, again I have to mention that I think they are less and less powerful or intense and feels like they might be fading away but i'm not sure, but from the most common stories I've read, I'm the exact opposite. When I lie down the skips kind of go away and when I eat a solid nice meal they stop entirely and I have like 5-8 hours of absolutely 0 ectopics. Exercising doesn't make them worse but they do occur after exercise when I'm cooling off that is why I currently put exercising on hold until I do my ultrasound.

I was also sent to a hospital for evaluation but at that time I was 1 month free of ectopics so of course nothing was found, this is the point where my cholesterol was 6.0 down from 6.6 and my blood results were appearantly even better, now at the end of this month I have an ultrasound, stress ECG and holter planned. Another thing I have noticed through my life is that when I was heavier I never had ectopics, but when I was skinny I did, I have no idea why though, it's yet another mystery to me. I however do not want to always keep eating to keep ectopics away. I will just gain my weight back and high blood pressure is probably worse than ectopics, I don't know at this point. The doctor did say my blood was excellent so there is that.

I also bought some Omega 3 with Q10 supplements and I ordered magnesium taurate that should be here tomorrow since magnesium carbonate isn't doing much for me. I increased the intake of potassium which hopefully will help as well. I remember this dumb sensation from my childhood when I was a kid. I had some of these skipped beats back when I was like 13 and I got one or two every 5-6 years usually during a super stressful days or a very hot days. I also remember having them randomly going to bed a few times. Also I did have a few rapid random heart beats as a kid, where my heart would instantly beat really fast and then instantly slow down to normal, was really bizzare and my body kind of pushed me to start sprinting or something to meet the heart rate which was strange so I started running around or doing pushups when it happened and then after I stopped running or doing push ups my heart rate would normally fall down to normal, that was a strange experience. I had like 2 of these episodes when I was a lot younger. I'm 30 now, and these ectopics don't cause much panic within me luckily but they are quite annoying.

My heart rate doesn't change during/after these ectopics. Its basically beat, beat, beat, followed by a quick beat and after that an annoying pause followed by a stronger beat, after that it's back to normal. Sometimes it's worse and there are 2 or 3 in a row. Sometimes it's an hour or two of constant annoyance of 2 or 3 a minute but again when I eat a nice meal they go away but generally after these skipped beats the heart rate doesn't go up nor down, it continues to beat normally. I have a resting heart rate of 62 most of the time when I'm lying on the bed and resting, normally it's around 70-80 through the day and blood pressure on average is mostly 122/76 and sometimes 135/82 but that's usually when I'm surrounded by doctors, white coat syndrome or whatever it's called. Used to be like 142/92 normally which I have fixed with my diet which is great.

I have scheduled another appointment with my doctor day after tomorrow so maybe an ECG can actually capture one of these skipping suckers.I would like to believe this is from anxiety but when I had to put down my cat 2 years ago I was an emotional wreck, since I've had him for 20 years and he was like a family member to me and there were 0 ectopics so I'm really not sure if it's anxiety, can it be delayed like that? If I get stressed out today can I get ectopics next week? I personally don't know. Would love more information on this as well. I also hope that these are benign ectopics because I have 0 symptoms when they start happening I'm just annoyed and that is it. My heart rate does change as I breathe though which as far as I know is completely normal and a good thing.

Any ideas or recommendations how to make this better or why 99% of people's ectopics become worse when eating or lying down but mine go away? Why do my ectopics never occur when I'm heavier but they occur once I lose weight. It's very unusual. It might sound crazy but I'm just mentioning what I have noticed and trying to be specific. It's very strange, I haven't found a single question or person that said "my ectopics go away after a meal". Also I took my BP while having these palpitations or ectopics and it was 117/78 so it's def. not high BP.

I apologize for some of the spelling errors English is not my main language and for this wall of text,
I'm just being super specific about everything. Thanks in advance for your answers.
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