Curious about pvc pattern

[missyx220]

Hi, Hope you all are well!

Im not new to pvcs and pacs. Funnily I only ever feel the pvcs. I am completely oblivious to the pacs. Holter monitor caught them.

Anyway, I will not be seeing my cardiologist for some time and I am just so curious to understand this, and am hoping someone here can help me.

When i have a pvc the usual pattern goes like this, when I have my fingers on my pulse -

normal beat, normal beat, normal beat, a thud or flutter or pulse in my throat but nothing on my pulse, a forceful beat and then back to normal.

I hope it makes sense, I feel like I've explained terribly, haha.

Im curious about how I can feel a pulse or thud in my throat when I feel nothing on my pulse.
Is the thud in my throat the blood being pushed out while my heart is resetting itself?

I have no idea. I hope someone else does!

Thanks! :)

[Careful35]

If you happen to be checking your pulse while having a PVC you can certainly feel it. You feel the pause in your pulse as your heart resets.

Technically people dont feel pvcs or pacs themselves but it's the next normal heart beat that's felt, this is the one that feels forceful or like a flutter. The reason is that normal heart beats come from the sinus node, pvcs come from the ventricles and pacs come from the atrium... When a cell in one of those areas is fired off the sinus node resets and prepares for the next heart beat. During this brief pause the heart has a little extra time to fill and so when the next normal beat comes it's more forceful because it has to push out all the extra blood.. This is what we feel :)