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10894761 tn?1413637884

PVCs just after standing - does it make any sense?

First of all, I'm not more scared about this kind of PVCs than ony other PVCs, because I've had lots of strange "patterns" in the past. But in the past few days I had 3 strange episodes which occurred in the same way: I was driving for some time, maybe 1 and 1/2 hour, I was even feeling well and was thinking to myself "wow, so nice, another day without PVCs".  But after I left the car I had to stand up to collect food in a take-away restaurant, I was standing in the same position for about 5 minutes and during that time I felt a lot of them (maybe 3 a minute, much more than my "normal" rate of PVCs). I'm sure it was not because of the HR because I was pretty relaxed, my HR was probably 80 or less. After that, I got back to my car and I didn't feel any other PVC for a long time...

I know these things are very weird and random, and there are lots of causes for them, but does it make any sense? Do you think it was just a very weird coincidence? Do standing / sitting affect the PVCs in any away?

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10894761 tn?1413637884
Hi Paviga, thank you for your answer. I suffer with this thing since 15 years ago, probably a little more. Maybe I've always had them but haven't noticed when I was a child. But mine are really weird: they disappear for months, then come back strongly, to disappear again, and so on...
Apart from that, I have panic attacks once in a while, which increases the frequency of PVCs in the following days

Since my last PVC "crisis", I've been trying to cut on caffeine and sugar and increase exercise, and so far it's working: I don't feel any PVC since 2-3 days ago. But that's probably coincidence.. who knows!

I hope we can find a cure for our problem, take care and thank you again.
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11010653 tn?1414533646
Hi friend :) I suffer from PVCs since 2005, now I'm 26. I have the same weird phenomenon as you feel; when I stand up, PVCs began, but in my case I also have ventricular bigeminy (your heart alternates one "normal" beat with one "premature" beat, and in my case it last between 15-20 seconds, which means 12 pvcs / minute...). I can't practice any vigorous physical exercise because I get more pvcs when I try to run for example. Cardiologists told me I have a normal heart.

In my opinion, long term PVCs have also a long personal story behind them. Let me say that I know some remission cases and, each one had a different thing/s to change before to find the cure (certain foods, emotional issues*, ...). One day, we will also find it ;)
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10894761 tn?1413637884
ok itdood, thanks a lot. In the meantime, I haven't had a single PVC since yesterday, so I bet they will come back stronger soon :D
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995271 tn?1463924259
Many people report PVCs can be positional.  You could put pressure on a certain area, sit, stand, lay on a certain side, exhale, inhale, drink cold water, and people will report getting PVCs from this.   It's very common.  It probably relates back to activity on he central nervous system, or influence of he CNS on ectopics.
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