Skipped beats after eating

[mindi23]

I have been on acebutolol for quite a few years now for premature ventricular beats with really good results. But over the past few weeks I am getting them soon after eating. I thought it was because i had started eating a couple squares of dark chocolate every day. I need to lower my cholesterol so I gave up chips and cookies but have read that dark chocolate is good for heart. Also started eating apples after a meal as my dessert or mid afternoon snack. So today I skipped the chocolate and ate the apple and still had some skipping immediately after the apple.....Could it be the raw apple? It's something I just recently started eating. (Without the skin, because I have to watch my IBS).....,Also last year I was treated for silent reflux with prilosec over a four month period (no heart skips) and I started taking prilosec again two weeks ago thinking it might be digestive? Should have taken effect by now though.My yearly cardio checkup isn't scheduled until February next year. Any thoughts?

[Elli126]

I have a feeling that many of us on here and suffer from anxiety also, I know i do. One of the things that helps me with that is coming here and reading everyone else's experiences.

[mindi23]

Thanks so much for responding. Your experience and understanding of the condition really helps with my anxiety.

[Elli126]

As a person with PVCs PACs and PSVT for over 30 years, all I can say is, no matter how you avoid your triggers, do what your supposed to and all that, sometimes these things just have a mind of their own. I can go for months with barely a flutter, keep doing the same things, and then have a horrible stretch of them. Gastric things do influence mine- I have IBS also, so does lack of sleep, but as I said, sometimes, no matter what the "crazy beats" just go off on a tangent. There is no sure fire formula to get rid of them. Just have to deal which I know is so much easier said than done. I'm going through a bad bout right now, especially after eating. Hope you feel better soon.