Heart Arrhythmia ( PVCs ) please Help ! :(

[Lucas2014]

Hello  I'm a 21 year old guy and I've been having heart palpitations ( PVCs more than 12 000 a day ) for the past four months . They have ruined everything in my life and I don't know what to do anymore !! doctors been telling how anxiety, stress  and caffeine and all the other stuff can cause them and it's okay to have them.  you just gotta have to ignore , that is soooo crazy !! because no matter how hard I try I can't ignore them :((  I feel everyone of these extra , skipped beats in my chest and they drive me crazy especially at night when I try to sleep .the head of my bed would start shaking from these extremely forceful beats and I get these fluttering feeling in my chest all the time . cant count the number of times I've been to the hospitals in the last four months !   but they usually send me back home saying it's probably the anxiety attack and my arrhythmia is benign , go home and rest don't think about it ! I mean Seriously  ??  i hate when they say that ! I feel so scared and I don't know where to go .
I didn't even know what the anxiety was ,   I was happy with my life , I used to go to the gym 4 - 5 times a day and I was in a great shape , not drinking or smoking never have , eating extremely healthy diet , why would I get these very frequent PVCs every day  ?  they are not able to tell me why ? there seems to be no reason  , all the tests came back normal , hormones and stuff . if it was from my anxiety can they last for this long  ?  4 months  ? will they ever go away  ? I wanna get my life back that happiness I had in me . please someone help , I don't wanna be scared like a baby but they freak me out . I know my heart isn't suppose to work like this . its not okay !!  how can they benign  ? I also take anti anxiety drugs Xanax 0.25mg at night but it's not helping me at all . please if there's someone out there help me to understand this .please :(

[Lucas2014]

Thanks for your reply , yeah like I said I have those tests and my heart is normal , but I get very frequent PVCs , irregular beats , ectopic beats , and that's why I'm  worried , if I had just few I wouldn't be bothered but I deal with thousands a day ;(( I have a fear of dying , my heart giving up on this extra beats cuz I get so many , I read about cardiac arrest and things like that and it gives me chills , it freaks me our so bad that I start shaking , I don't want to read things like that anymore but I can't help it ,I'm trying to find something to get rid of them , blood test showed nothing , calcium , mag , potassium levels were fine , no hormonal imbalance and no thyroid problems .

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

hi , so sorry they are still going .

yes I get them for hours on hours last time I had them 10 hours straight every other heart beat was a flutter , and it just don't seem normal

scares me to , I lay there thinking this is it but ive had flutters since I was 19 now 55 so they have not killed me yet even though that don't help my nerves when they come


if you have had 4 months straight all day than you can rest that its not something that wil kill you, if it was you would be gone by now

cardic arrest will not happen with pvc/pac, its just a extra beat being threw in there
  what ids you heart rate . is it fast or normal. do you have a bp machine at home that you can check that ?

if all your test have come back heart is good than your fine , its just so darn scary and yes your young and need to be living your life.

try and get on a anxiety med that stays in your body that might help like klonopin, when mine was going crazy it helped me to settle down and get back on my feet and back to life

[Lucas2014]

My heart rate is normal , ( 64 - 80 ) it can get fast if I let anxiety take over me I just had my dinner meal now and my PVCs are so much worse ;(( I almost passed out a minute ago , food seems to aggravate them ;(

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

yeah your heart rate is good ,

try to eat smaller meals , eating a big meal can make them worse

[Elli126]

Sometimes PVC PAC can be felt more after eating especially after a large meal because your stomach can be pressing against your vagus nerve. This is just another annoying post of the whole thing. You may want to check into managing your anxiety. And ask your doc about those beta blockers you may benefit from those since you have so many. Hang in there! Keep reading others posts and you will see how many of us suffer with these pain in the neck things, and some with many more than you even!

[Lucas2014]

Thank you Elli ;) I'm really trying to calm down now after reading these posts , I'm be meeting another cardiologist in 10 days and I'll let you guys know how things will go. Im traveling far away to meet this doc ;))