Heart palps??? PVCS?? Doctors blowing me off!

[Rs33]

I get heart arrythmias daily some small some big. I have had 4-5 ECGs and and ultra sound of my heart and a holter monitor for a month and also 2 x-rays...everything came back nornal as well as all blood work. I started suffering from panic attacks b/c of my heart in the first place....I felt the need to pass out I never do but it feels like it. I breath slowly and I either lay back with my legs up or put my head between my legs and usually I am okay. But My hart arrythmias can last up to 5 min sometimes and then be gone for the day or maybe I will get 2-3 and then they will be gone, but I get them everyday is that normal? I still feel the need to get checked seeing how sometimes I feel the need to pass out (sometimes not everytime it happens I get a lil bit of tightness in the chest like hard to breath( but I can) I also get chest pains afterward but I think its me being in a panic thinking somthing else is wrong b/c other times If I feel it and blow it off I am totally fine.  I am pretty healthy and I did not get heart arrythmias before...I became pregnant and in my 5th month they came on pretty strong and I was checked then and they said it was bengin but it has not gone away since! Does anyone else get these? also is it safe to get pregnant again?? Please anyone with Information would be helpful my doctors keep blowing me off like its nothing.
Also I get rapid heart beats or skippd beats after say I go to the denist and get shots...I have asked to receive the one that doesn;t have the adrenaline in it due to my heart going out of wack after a procedure but even the other stuff make me have irregular beats....there very scarey to me and they fill like my heart is filling up with bubbles and there like fluttering around and they can be pretty big!! ANyways someone please help!
I have tricare so I can't see my regular heart doctor I have seen in the past!
Thanks!

[Viktor800428]

Hello, what about you nowadays? The topic is rather old and I feel the same things for 8-9 months. I am reading a lot about it, now found your story.
How are you feeling? What happened with you in the past years?
Thank you and sorry for my english, I am hungarian.

[RavenOma]

Have you ever had your magnesium levels checked? I'm 52 years-old and I've had PVC's since I was 24, but they were never diagnosed until about a year ago by a cardio electrophysiologist (they deal specifically with electrical issues in the heart). I was told for years that nothing was wrong and it was just something I'd have to live with, but they were becoming worse and worse, especially as I went through menopause.

My new cardiologist checked my mag levels, which  turned out to be the lowest he'd ever seen. After about 6 months on magnesium supplements (under his supervision), I rarely notice PVC's at all. At last check I had 800 or so in a week - much lower than normal.

The other issue I've had to deal with recently (and I tell you this because of your near-fainting episodes) is two episodes of fainting (syncope) in two years. The first time, my husband took me to the hospital after I fainted at home and the second time (early May this year) I went to the hospital as soon as I started feeling like I was going to faint. I fainted in triage and when they took me to ER and hooked me up to the monitor, the ER doc actually witnessed the drop in my heart rate (from 65 to 32 in a couple of seconds, then back up again). This is called Bradycardia and it is what made me faint. It was due to Sick Sinus Syndrome and I had to have a pacemaker put in to keep my heartrate from dropping again. It also monitors the PVC's, so he gets a report on that everytime I have it checked now. That was 3 weeks ago and I'm feeling really great.

I hope this helps.

RavenOma

[JillDoll]

I have Mitral Valve and have had palpitation for 40 years. I just got the results of an echo cardio last week and had palp. during the entire test. Test results were fine. You will eventually get used to the palp.  Mine didn't occur until I was 18 yrs. old, so at first I felt great anxiety with it and suffered anxiety attacks for the next 20 years.  I eventually talked my way out of the attacks.  But over the years, I just take note of them.  I have them alot.  You will get used to the palpitations.  

[mum2four]

I really dont know 100% what was causeing my leg pain, but I have always had minor issues with restless syndrome. I was put on zyprexa for major depression(due to being a victom of a home invasion). While on zyprexa my legs were getting more and more pains I was taking pain meds to just walk everyday almost. Once I felt stable enough I weaned my self off zyprexa and the leg pain got a lot better but did not go away compleatly. I started using the gym and lost 10kg really quick, that surprised me. The leg pains were getting worse again, the pain got so intence I spoke to my Dr about them hoping to get stronger pain med (I did not ask for them direct too scared). When I was not given stronger pain meds I put up with the pain longer till one day I was in so much pain for days in row that my partner ended up coming with to ask my Dr about stronger pain meds because I did not feel I was getting my ponit acrossabout how much pain I was in and little effect the over counter pain meds had on the leg pain. Having my partner come really made a huge differance for all my symptoms.

I had two main leg pains, one at night or while resting which was restless leg pain dont know if you've read about restless leg syndrome but its a hard pain to discribe. I just felt like I about to get pins a needles every fue seconds and kept having to move my legs it was very hard to get a good nights sleep with, my partners struggled to sleep cause even in my sleep I was tossing and turning. Then the other pain was when I walked the longer I tryed to stay upright the more painfull it became it was almost like when you push weights you know that burning feeling when you start to really work you mussels while doing weights. Thats kinda the pain I had all the time till it got to type of pain that feel when you know you can no longer push any more weight that feeling that says "I cant don any more or I drop them" but instead it would get so painfull I felt I needed to sit before I fell down. I was tripping over uneven ground so easy because lifting my legs was so hard it felt like they were magneticly attached to the ground have ever played with really strong magnets, my dad had one on fridge that was so strong that by the time you managed to use both hands to get it off the fridge a liitle it was being pulled back really quick because it was so strong and you had watch your fingers or you'd get hurt. That's how it felt as soon as I lifted my feet a little that just dropped back to the ground. I did not seem to have the energy to keep them up long enough. I felt like I was pulling my legs off the ground with my whole body and just with knees(which is how it feels now). If I was walking and needed to sit and the ground was the only place to sit I sat on the ground. One day there was no seats on the bus and because I look young no one offered me a seat and I felt an so tired I just slid to the ground exausted one lady had a go at me because I knock one her bags, I just snapped(she had just finished complaining loudly to the people on the bus that no one offered her a seat) and I told her to back off and leave me along as I may look young but having issues with heart, She started on about issues and told her to just have more respect for people and shhh's and leave me alone..

Anyway after being put on sleeping meds the pain in my leg was almost halved, specially the night pain(restless leg pain). Since being on Ivabradine the pains when I walk have been so much better.

I think the pain was due to poor circulation cause by the tachycardia and also proberlt also so from lack of REM sleep. I have not had any restless leg pain at all since Ivabradine and way less pain when standing It only gets a little hard to walk ofter being up right for hours, or walking non stop for at least 30 min's at a decent pace. Even then it very mild, only one episode of hip pain that did not radiate down my legs like it use to.

The hip pain might be due to my 4th pregnancy my son was a large baby and some time the homones cause your hips to loosen to allow for birth, well I could not walk with out intence painl in the last 3 week. Lifting my foot barly off the ground and barly forward was too painfull I spent most of time on my lounge with up to 10 pillows supporting me.

thanks take care

[Rs33]

Ya I am sick of having issues to, I would like to be my normal self again. was the leg pain from your heart or something else? I get leg pains but they come from my back I think I will have a dull ache in them all day long and then it will b gone the next day....I get shooting pains down my arms and I also get very strange head pains (which could be due to my panic) I also don't sleep much so I am on sleep meds when needed and then just zoloft.. I cant wait to see my cardiologist just to get some insight. I hate being in pain everday or just can't breath throughout my day (which my doc think is from panic but I have gotten a lot better compared to 5 months ago) and I know this is not panic I am not in panic mode whn this happeneds.
Thanks for everything again
Hopefully things start getting better each day for you :)

I was unable to run as well during my younger years I could run but It would hurt me inside I was unable to breath I would fel dizzy and like I was going to pass out as well.
If I ran a quick short length I would be panting for like half an hour haha. I also had super bad tummy pains, which I had a CTscan down on my abdomin and nothing came up but a cyst which I get everymonth no big suprise there.

I just want to make sure I can live with what I have and its not going to kill me, If I can and its nothing serious and its just panic all in the end I can deal with that it will suck but at least I will know that I am going to be fine!
I will keep you updated hopefully my appt is gunna be next week! I am really praying I see him soon. (stupid insurance)

[mum2four]

A pulse watch would be better, make sure it a good brand I got "polar" brand you can look them up the internet they are a very good brand. I got mine from a sports shop.

My BP monitor also has the abilty to catch irregular heart beats and takes my pulse as well..I'm still concerned there might be something els going on with my heart as I get a lot of irregular heart symbols when I take my pulse standing up and after walking standing.

I have been put on Ivabradine for my inapproprate sinus tachycardia. Ivabradine has made a huge difference with my symptoms. I still get tired easy but I can stand up with out feeling like I'm going to pass out more often. I've only hade 2 intence eipsodes of the feeling of passing out and both were after walking to the shops which is a 30 mine walk, thats a huge differance. Walking to school is easy now but at the end of the day I more tired but no where near as tired as before the Ivabradine. I'm sleeping better, I'm having less leg pains, I can breath so much easier. In fact In the first fue days of going on Ivabradine I was just smilling so big most of the time from the mear fact that I could breath so easy. It's like a huge weight has literaly melted away from my body, like gravities hold has reduced, I almost feel like I've just got off a trampline. Have you jumped on a trampiline and then got off you feel so light untill you get use to the hard ground under your feet again. That kind of how I feel, and it feel great.

I've had so many symptoms for so long that I did not really know I had them untill thay were no longer there. Chest tightness is one of them My chest feels so empty compared to before the Ivabradine. I've had asthma all my life, I kind of assume that I struggled to breath due to asthma most of the time. If this how my chest is supose to feel then I wish I had this feeling sooner cause it feels great. I really suspect I have had tachycardia issues most of my life that has only gotten worse with age and illnesess. I've alway gotten really sick physically when I finally get fit enough for jogging. I asumed this was bad timeing or an anxiety reaction maybe. Even as a kid/teen I could never run I gave up trying, it was easier to be stubborn then to try explain that I could NOT run cause I was told I was just lazy and making stupid excuses. The other kids always teased me about slow I ran and really felt like I was going to pass out even after using  my asthma puffer. Put me on bike and I could ride for hours, and till recent years I could walk for hours as well. I walk everywhere I don't drive so not being able to walk has really been hard on me.

I was put on Fluvoximine melate 200 mg about 5 years ago still on 200mg cause every time I try to lower my meds The palpitation were 24 hours and drive me bonkers. I only took 150mg the other day I the palpitation were rare, I was a little aggitated but the palpitation were so much better.

I also take sedative when I have a panic attack or when my anxiety is making it hard to concentrate or get threw something I need to get threw eg an oppointment with my children teacher or something.

I was also put on sleeping meds in oct last year because my Dr's first theroy for my symptoms was that my insomnia was causing my symptoms. While my leg pain got heaps better and I became less tired while sitting the standing symptoms did not get better, in fact because I increased my activities this year standing was just harder. I been trying to get my Cert 2 in community studdies, the Ivabradine was given to me just in time for my work experiance. I dont know how I would have coped with my work experiance if I had not been tired on Ivabradine.

I take hayfever meds when needed

I was put on stronger pain meds mainly due to my leg pain but also because I get migraine's

While I have listed many types of meds The only ones I take daily is the fluvoximine melate 200mg and the Ivabradine 5mg. All my other meds are only when needed and figureing out which one's I can/should take and when is very hard. I very OCD with medication I talk my self out of taking meds so often unless my abilty to be a parent is comprimised big time.

I tryed a physio for my leg and back pain and that did very little for me as far as long tern results because all most ALL the exercises need to be done standing up which till now has been almost imposiable. Even now I still struggle with dizziness, I have since I was kid swings make me intensly nausious just from sitting on them let alone trying to swing on one. My recent migraine cause intence photophobia which cause intence dizziness. Even drinking was making me nausious, when I told the cardiologist this she reconmended I see a gastroenterologist, I seriously doubt they find anything wrong let alone anything to make me feel better but I'll try anything. I struggle to drink more than 1800ml of liquid(juice and water) a day but that better than my past 1 glass of water a day which I started to change when I was about 23 years old I'm now 32. I started keeping a bottle of fluid next to me at all times. I I feel so yuck when I try to drink most of the time I have alway put this down to my OCD as my mum was very strict on when I could drink, I had to always ask my brother and sister if they wanted a drink and if they did not then I could not have a drink. My sister would say no just to be controlling as well. Long stroy short I lost my thirst responce or something cause I dont get thirsty I drink because if I don't I get headache. My dizziness is most likly due to not being able to drink the min 2L of water a day, but who knows.

I wish I could rub my self out and start again I'm sick of having issues.

[Rs33]

I usually take my pulse my self but getting a reading through that is hard seeing how when I feel my pass out feeling I start to worry and my heart rate jumps up...I might look into getting a pulse watch.....I have been testest numourus times to see if I was diabetic but it came up normal...I have had the doc take my blood pressure laying down to sitting to standing and I only had a slight change. Ocassionally I will check my blood pressure machine and it will be quite high for me at times sometimes 140/98 or something like that but but when I sit down to relax and I breath and just get comfy I will take it again and it will be 118/80...anyways how do you control your problem now are you on any medications? I am really bad at drinking water and I am trying to get better...I barely drink fuilds as is which could be part of my problem. Just walking up and down my stairs in the middle of the night to go to the restroom I feel so tired and winded when I crawl back in bed. b4 you found out what you had....did you find it harder to breath during the day? Not so much hard to breath but at times did you feel your breathing was heavy or the air was heavier?  and did you have any chest discomfort or pain?
I will keep you updated when I see the cardiologist hopefully I get an appt next week sometime!

[mum2four]

I know how you feel Rs33 that sounds so similar to how I have felt over the last fue years and more so in the last year when I started looking for another reason on top of my anxiety. I have been lucky to have all 4 of my kids old enough to help me or I dont how I would have coped if they were all under 5 and needed me to be active to keep them safe.

How do you monitor you pulse?

Do you wear a pulse watch if not it might be good to get one so you can keep a record of how often you HR changes and what your doing when it changes.

I was going to the gym for about 6mth before I gave up after I calapsed on my door step I felt so tired, shacky, palpitaition, breathless, foggy head, like I forgot to eat and drink when I had not Poweraide made me feel a little better and I tryed to eat healthy banana's and salad sandwhich's ect but I I was so exausted and all did was do some laps in the pool and light exercise's in the pool. My pulse was staying up around 150 for hours after even thoe I was resting and drinking ect.

Once I got my BP monitor I started noticing sudden drops in BP as low 70/40 with pulse at 50 When moments earlier I was tachy as high as 180 with high BP.. My BP still go's higher when I'm standing with sudden drops in BP that match my intence feelings that I might pass out. It was not a thought in my head that said I would pass out it was body like gravity had an intence hold on me trying to pull me to the ground. The intencity has gotten better but I still get dizzy for second or more and have to hold on to something close to get my bearings again. I have not got back in gym work outs yet but I have walked to the shops which is further than I walked in a fue years with out sitting before I pass out every time I felt the intence feelings.

have you had a glucose tolerance test as well the Dr did that for me but the results came back normal which is slightly frustrating as I'm intolerant to suger but not diabeteic or glucose intolerant. I found out I was suger intolerant at 10 via allergy ***** test. I'm thinking of going back to my Dr and asking to have a new allergy test done as my mum misplaced my test results from child hood and or things may have changes anyway. I'm already being sent to dietition cant wait to see if they help me feel better dont know what they can do help with the limit foods I can eat. If I have an food allergy test at least I'll have a more recent results to work from. I came up allergic(intolerant) to carrots but I have never really avoided them as I could never pin point a reaction well recently I started eating raw carrots every day trying harder to eat better still. I been have tummy pains way more and the only thing I really changed was eating more carrots it one of the vegetables I love to eat raw and cooked. I feel like I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.

I suffer from so many different allergies that cause so many problems for me it frustrating. Any one of them might be contributings to how bad I feel. I'm willing to explore the idea to get back to being more energenic. The last time my mum had control over the whole process of allergies testing and side effect ect. My mum was very controlling over me and my allergies/intolerance and revisiting the Idea will be a huge OCD(obsessive compulsive disorder) chalange for me. It's a long process.


I hope you get some answer or new avenues to look down when you see the cardioligist.

[Rs33]

I am not saying I do not have Anxiety or panic b/c I do...but this is what caused my panic and anxiety in the first place my heart. And I am getting an MRI done on the 17th I have also been seeing a therapist for about a month and a psychitrist I am on Zoloft right now to see how things work out but in the mean time I want to be sure I am healthy. I am vry worried (which probably doesn't help) B/c I have a lil girl who just turned one and I stay home with her all day. She is very active and I try my hardest to keep up but I seem to tire quickly...let me remind you I am 23 years old and 125 5'3 and I would consider myself in good shape. B4 al this happened to me I worked out for 60-90 min a day doing cardio. Now I am terrified of working out, I don't want that. I am seeing all these doctors and getting all these test to be reassured for me and my family! I just want to make sure this is panic, if it then great I will deal with it but for now believe something else is going on.. Most people think of anxiety or panic racing heart sweaty shakey....me its a different story I feel hot and cold and then I feel like my body can't move and my body feels like its gunna shut down (out of nowhere) my heart sometimes doesn't even race it does nothing and then when I am calm I get PVCS that make me feel weaker at times. What would you think if you felt like you were always passing out and having PVCS? Its a scarey thing to me I have a baby at home and its just me so if I pass out or something terrible happens whos going to hear her. I live out on 10 acres and my husband doesn;t even come home till 5 or 6. anyways I just want to be sure I am completely healthy. It could be the fact that I am over stressed as well and my body can't take it anymore. I dunno but I am going to find out! I will update if I find anything out! :) thank you everyone for helping me!

[Rs33]

I completly agree with you about a prsons feeling if you feel something is wrong then get it checked to be sure....anyways I have not done a stress test nor a tilt table test, they gave me the monitor and since it came out normal they assumed I was fine....Now for some reason LOL everytime I had the pass out feeling I either had my monitor off( taking a shower) or was on the phone with the people that do the recording and I was giving them info back through the phone so I couldn't ever get one recorded...But the first one that ever happened to me i was in the E.R for chest pain which was a pulled muscle I was told (which is fine b/c it went away a couple days later) But when I was in the E.r I was talking to my mom and she said wow your HR is great it was about 45-50 and I looked up at it and it was at 48 and then I just had the feeling of passing out so I freakied out b/c I didn;t want to and my HR shot up to 150, and then it went away and I was feeling very anxious after that then it happend 3 more times before I left but my heart rate was at 76 at the time of feeling like I was going to pass out. I am seeking a great cardiologist hopefully this week or next to get some anwsers hes one of the best. So I am hoping that he can help and he knows my family and family history already. I went to him when I was 13 or 14. Thank you for everything I am not sure if I answered all your questions if not just write back. Thanks again!

[mum2four]

Have you thought about getting your own portable ECG machine. They really are overly expencive and while I dont sujest you get one if you think it would make you more anxious I do think if you can seperate you fear of something being wrong and see it from a purely diagnostic point of view it may catch something you Dr's have not yet caught or it may releive your concerns for the most part.

I wear a pulse watch firstly because it uses my HR to calculate calories I burn and secondly to keep an eye on my tachycardia. I know people like to assume that monitoring is caused anxiety disorder's but I say "who cares let them have that oppinion"

I suffer from OCD I though it would become a huge obsession and my first pulse watch was one I had to press that was alway getting people making comments to so I got one that shows my pulse 100% of the time(strap around chest). It just looks like a watch to people and they think I'm checking the time. It accepavle to check the time but not to know what your pulse it doing LOL I find this to be pathetic. People are to affraid to take their own heath in to there own hands in safe ways but they will smoke dope or drink alcohole to fit it instead of trying legal meds to help with there problem.

[mum2four]

That's all good and well to spout off a medical view and to say all of that your entittled to your oppinion.

I'm not looking at this from medical point off view, I'm viewing this from human rights point of view.

Anxiety is very treatable and I'm not saying don't concider that as a posiable reason. You should always seek help try meds ans not just sedatives but Anti D meds as well. See a therapist as well so you can learn better copping methods.

but I also still beleive that people need to turst in their symptoms if they dont improve and they strongly beleive they seriously explored the anxiety side of their issues. Then they should be taken serious by their Dr and not made to fight for a fue a test.

Personal I took to buying my own pulse watch and BP monitor to try to figure out why I feeling so bad, simply because its impossible for a Dr to put in as much effort to find any possiable reason as I could put in, and also because a fue relaxing Dr visit was not going to recreate the activities that were causing me to feel like I was going to pass out.

You may as well be a medical book cause that all I really get from what you wrote except that I never read that PVC's and PAC's are caused by anxiety if no structural problem exist in the heart. Show me medical info that say that, cause I'd like to know how they know that if they cant figure out what cause it, which is what I've read and every thing I've read still talks about it being heart issue not a head issue. Non structural heart issues are still heart issues the brain controls the heart and Dr's know even less about the brain so they call anything they cant explain phycological its a cop out. If they dont know they still need to treat you like a human being and keep you up to date on new brack threws and new meds or new threapy's Dr's need to start saying we dont have an answer for you yet but we'll monitor your symtoms and decide how often to redo test just in case they missed something or something finally shows up. You keep talking about a fue ecg being enough lol I've read that ECG often have to well timed with the event and when you have anxiety and other issues timing would be harder.

[r9c]

Well written is_something_wrong the thing is if one have stresstest,echo,blood enzymes test,24hr holter and several ecgs and all came back normal then i think there is a non heart related.this is the standard test in evey where,u can go from one cardio to another they will still do the same test and if they find nothin wrong i am sure they will suggest anxiety as the cause.regarding gp yes i have encounter doctors at er who told me that if ecgs and blood enzymes are nornal then usually its not a heart problem and he was quite confident with this because he saw people with real heart problems n anxiety suffere at the er over the years and told me to trust those cardiologist,they deal with real heart problems people and they will know if one had a real heart problem but of course theres no 100% in medicine so u can always seek a 2 nd opinion but wat if those result came back normal again ? More tests? Wat left is anxiety the cause and usually doctors point to anxiety after all those test came back nornal and anxiety is the last card on the table and it needs to be adressed

[is_something_wrong]

Hello,

If you have arrhythmias (benign or not), and the event is captured on EKG / Holter, and an ultrasound and stress test is done, there really isn't so much more the doctors can do.

If the arrhythmia is benign (i.e PACs or PVCs) and there is no structural abnormalities in the heart, well, it must be caused by something else than heart disease. Remaining reasons can be thyroid problems, endocrine problems, autonomic nerve problems and anxiety.

Thyroid problems are usually ruled out before a cardiologist even see you, it's the first thing a doctor suspects. Endocrine problems (such as pheo, etc..) are extremely rare and give specific symptoms. Then we are left with anxiety and autonomic imbalance (that are commonly caused by anxiety).

Many of us are annoyed because we feel that our doctors are too quick suggesting anxiety. However, a fact is that it's extremely likely, and if other tests are OK, we just need to accept it as anxiety.

Concerning your IST, I think it's a little "on the side" of this discussion because 1) it usually doesn't cause irregular heart rate, and 2) I think several of the best cardiologists in the world have problems separating IST from anxiety or somatoform autonomic dysfunction.

IST is a "mystery" diagnosis, there are at least 100 causes of "appropriate" sinus tachycardia and some of them are almost impossible to completely rule out.

It seems your doctors was a bit clumsy and I understand you have some mistrust in them (I don't blame you, I don't trust anyone but cardiologists in heart related issues myself) :p Especially because when I ask a GP something, he usually don't know the answer.

[mum2four]

Have you had a stress test or tilt table test.(Rs33)

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I had to look for new Dr that was at least willing to entertain the idea that anxiety was not only thing that might be causing my symptoms. My first ECG was perfect, my 24 hour hoilter monitor showed sinus tachycardia, my 3rd ECG showed incompleate rbbb and then I was put in hospital due to incorrect ECG that showed inverted T wave which was was later found to be cause by mixing the leads up but being put in hospital was the best things for me in end as the Dr's finally saw the problem i was dealing with. Had I not been put in hospital I beleaive I would still being trying to prove how often I was suffering from tachycardia and what was causing it.

[r9c]

Yup always make sure all necessary test are done by the doc if they dosent bother,find another doctor

[mum2four]

Exactly why all clear in not really 100% all clear .

[r9c]

also i mentioned anxiety as a cause because she mentioned she had been given all clear by a specialist,cardiologist.also proof and 100% dont exists in a medical world.

[r9c]

okok,seek for another cardio opinion then and redone the test.

[mum2four]

I did not see you mention a stress test or tilt table test. Has your Dr even susjested these test ever.

During all your test did you ever feel the feeling that were going to pass out if not then I doubt you have recreated the events that MAY be causing the problem. I would be making notes of whats happening at the time you feel these feeling and how bad your feeling and even what your eating and drinking you may find a pattern that might give you an answer ot least point you in a better direction for test or treatment.

[mum2four]

It may not even be heart related or the events that are causing the problem are not being recreated. I had several ECG and the hoilter monitor none of which showed proof to the Dr that my heart was causing the problem.

PAC's and PVC's are still a problem if the Dr's are not achiving a better out come for her via medication or other method's. Thay may not mean a shorter life but they sound like they interfearring big time and she wants help. I have read little info that say PVC's and PAC are caused by anxiety so stop making her feel like its in her head that the worst feeling in the world in my oppinion to think your head is causing it. she's intillted to achknolagement of these issues are impacting her life.

[r9c]

she had every cardiac test done,all only being diagnosed with pvc/pac,thats normal.its not ist,afib or etc..the proof is already there,if u dont want to accept the doctor diagnosis,u can always go for 2nd opinion,but if result still normal,then u know the answer.

[mum2four]

will people stop saying every thing is anxiety its driving me bonkers. If I had listen to everyone I too would still be thinking it was my anxiety and would not have been put on medication for my IST.

I'm sure Rs33 will be fine..but every one deserves to have proof(via test) that its nothing serious is behind the symptoms. people also deserve to have quality of life...While IST wont shorten my life it was sure making it hard to have life.

[r9c]

Hi,i think anxiety disorder can indeed make u feel all those symptoms that you have,if you have been to specialist after specialist and they still give u a clean heath bill then its time for you to attend some counselling,i know how it feels,but after so many specialist visits and they cant find anything wrong with you then you indeed are healthy,the only thing wrong with you is because you think something else is wrong there fore your body react to wat you think.Perhaps the next step for you is to visit a neurologist,where they can give u ct scan or mri.This is anxiety disorder.