Should i continue to exercise with what feels like PAC's ?

[lilianne1]

Im a 33 year old mom of 3 boys with a healthy lifestyle, no caffeine, no supplements, high protein diet, 5.5 inc tall, 125 lbs. I thought I was having PVCs or PACs but a recent 24 hr hotter confirmed nothing but 3 PACs at times that were not even the times i felt them. Needless to say, I'm so confused and worried. BTW what i feel its exactly what everyone describes as PAC and PAC, I place my hand on my chest and when i get the flutter feeling and that weird gas like feeling in my throat I feel my heart pauses and the next beat is stronger. Is there any chance the doctor or who ever read the holder results missed the arrhythmias, or whatever else can it be. I have had these ectopic like feelings for 13 years, it used to happen only 2 or 3 per week sometimes i would go months without feeling one. Now since January i have been feeling them while working out, especially when i finish a set of reps (weight lifting, squads 70-90 pounds) it happens during recovery, then when my heart slows down they go away. Now, for the last few weeks I don't usually feel them unless I'm working out. So worried. I really enjoy working out but now it has become a nightmare. BTW I have had echo, stress test, holter and ekgs done and the only finding is mild Mitral Valve Prolapse and those 3 PACs i mentioned showed on the holder. I do notice when I do exercises laying down I don't feel them as much. Please help. Should i continue to exercise when i experience these weird extra beats or delayed beats, i don't even know what to call them?  Is there is possibility that when the heart rate is too high the hotter does not pick up on PAC's or PVC's?

[lilianne1]

Wouldn't it be the same that i recorder at the time i had this "bumps" and told the doctor to specifically look at this times and he still said nothing shows? Now is something constant, even when don't work out as much, today we played baseball at the park and after 5 minutes of running from one base to the other it all started. Funny that usually when i get them I feel the need to belch, its almost like i have gas trapped in my chest, that has been since day one.

Im also a swimmer and Im a bit scared to experience them while swimming, that has not happened yet.

Did you have a holter before and it did not show?

[Winded132]

Maybe you could get an R - Test, which is the same as a holter except you press a button whenever you feel a "bump". Ive experienced the same as you with Holters, but the R test showed that I was right practically every time.

Ive excercised with 30 pac's during a 10 minutte rowing period, but I switched to just swimming reguarly, and then stopping when the pac started becoming bothersome, and trying not to excert so much. I came to like this milder excercise without PAC's better.